It is 10:30am

[conuly]

And I've yet to feel tired enough to go to sleep.

If I feel like this through the afternoon, I may effectively reverse cycle and end up in the land of the living again! I am so excited by this prospect! OMG, you have no idea. A normal sleep schedule is potentially within my grasp!

Edit: Now 1pm.

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A Forest of Furniture Is Growing in England

Why Romance languages have two different words for "yes". (This post is correct in noting that there are many, many more Romance languages than you've previously known about, very few of which are actually listed therein.)

Stolen work by famed painter Degas found in bus

Tootsie Rolls Were WWII Energy Bars

Young children use physics, not previous rewards, to learn about tools

My Life Not Knowing What Colors Look Like

Not all dogs eat poop, but the ones that do like it fresh

When Gas Masks Were an Inescapable Part of Everyday Life

Why do some Chinese funerals involve strippers?

When America's Basic Housing Unit Was a Bed, Not a House (And you'll want to read this one too.)

Airlines Won’t Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes

NRA honors FCC chair with rifle for repealing 'net neutrality' (Wow.)

Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in Elections. We Do It, Too. (Does the NYTimes imagine its readers are going to be shocked by this revelation?)

Why You Shouldn’t Be a Russiagate Skeptic

US deportations targeting more people with no crime records

Venezuela’s refugee crisis will exceed Syria’s; we must help

“The Snake”: Donald Trump brings back his favorite anti-immigrant fable at CPAC

'So What? Maybe It Is a Concentration Camp'

The Daring Plan to Save a Religious Minority from ISIS

The Soul-Crushing Legacy of Billy Graham

'Nobody poaches here': Study exposes misperception of poaching on the Great Barrier Reef and its remedy

Sighing, Resigned Climate Scientists Say To Just Enjoy Next 20 Years As Much As You Can

Too Sick for Jail — But Not for Solitary

Where sex trafficking and toxic masculinity collide

Comments

[greghousesgf]

why do so many food commercials seem to be trying to make theft look cute?
also, that color blind woman said she only wore what went with black. Doesn't every color go with black?

[conuly]

No. Navy blue doesn't go with black. Dark brown or gray doesn't go with black.

[greghousesgf]

I've worn them together and I think they look great. Especially navy blue with black. It looks very Japanese.

[larryhammer]

Huh? Gray goes fine with black -- all but the very darkest/lightest shades of it, anyway.

[wpadmirer]

I worry about housing as I get older. Pat and I have rented a small cottage for 25 years. However, our landlord is in his 80s. We can afford this, but looking at the cost of even "low cost" apartments for people over 65 is more than we pay. It's crazy.

[conuly]

*hugs*

[spikethemuffin]

I am SO JEALOUS about getting your sleep schedule back on track, and I don't even know you. Congrats!

[conuly]

It's a whole new world.

[spikethemuffin]

Forgive me, but I have to say it: A whole new world? Don't you dare close your eyes... at least until you actually want to sleep.

Um, that probably doesn't make sense unless you've been overexposed to the Disney hegemony.

Also, that Citylab link re: housing? Scathingly cool.

[conuly]

That is actually the first song I was ever able to play by ear on the piano. I rapidly realized I could play the melody to most songs (well, the sort people sing) on the piano, and to this day it baffles me that other people can't, or can't even realize if they're hitting wrong notes when following the music!

climate scientists

[calimac]

I think that's supposed to be humor, but it's not. That, seriously, is where we are.

Re: climate scientists

[conuly]

Yes, The Onion is satirical, but.