Why don't you people go to bed?

Then again, why don't I go to bed?

Went to a roller derby tonight. Atlanta VS. Huntsville, AL. With my sister. It was like kissing my sister.

Actually, I had a good time. The flat tracks do lead to some bad wipe-outs. Remember those old roller derby matches on UHF TV?

because I have a paper to write. It's due tomorrow morning and I don't really know what the grader wants from it, so it's coming out pretty awkwardly.

I'm poking my head into the Cellar right now largely because I don't want to look at the paper.

...or at least "suggest" wordage. I am a historian and a writer, so just tell me the topic.

What do you have to lose?

his integrity!

Why am I up? Steroids.

I go to bed around 3am and wake up around 9/10am. I'll be thankful to get a full night's sleep once I'm done with the 'roids. We're trying to get me off them once again. ...been taking them for 18 months, I NEED SLEEP!
On the plus side, I'm getting a lot of sewing and quilting done.

LOVED watching roller derby on UHF!
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his integrity!

You are correct, lumberjim.

That was more of a tactic to get the writer to reveal his "topic" so as to inspire more writing on his part. I would never write a paper for a student. In fact, I have to watch out for that bullshit in my own job.

As an [a] historian for the National Park Service, I am one of several people that recieve "Ask A Historian" questions from all of America. Usually they are so broad as to be rediculous' "What caused the Civil War?" Sure. Let me tell you the answer to that.

My desire is to get people, especially kids, to think. Think on their own. Kids are actually a lot smarter than we give them credit for. They are battered by so much crap that they feel they can't think for themselves.

Maturity is overated. I've met 6-year olds that are smarter than 43-year olds, more mature, too.

Woke up early, usually get up at 4am.

Flat track roller derby? Never seen that.
Yes, the UHF roller derby shows were pretty strange. Like pro wrestling of the same era. Wrestling has gotten more flamboyant and I imagine roller derby has too. :vikingsmi

It's 5 p.m. here :)

However, I was awake at 3 a.m. this morning ... why? I don't remember. OH, right, I was playing with some HDR (high dynamic range) software. Anyone know much about it? I love the results.

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Woke up early, usually get up at 4am.

old mans bladder huh?

...or at least "suggest" wordage. I am a historian and a writer, so just tell me the topic.

Pangloss, what period of history do you specialise in? I am seven weeks into a BA in HIstory at Leeds University. Been meaning to go and do it my whole life, now finally am in a position to. By the time I am 45 I want to be published and lecturing :P

Psh, out by eleven, up by three, every day.

Because Daily Show/Colbert are on till midnight.

my serotonin had a fight with my melatonin and now their not speaking...

That quote belongs in the vault...especially if it's original!

as far as I know it is; especially if you use their instead of they're

d'oh!

but remember: never go to bed angry (that's not original).

Hoof Hearted wrote:

On the plus side, I'm getting a lot of sewing and quilting done.

You've misspelled 'screwing', love. :D

Selene climbs the walls when she has to take prednisone and the like. Its like living with a meth freak. She doesn't react well to steroids at all.

Sorry Pangloss, after I made that post I tabbed back into Wordpad and kept writing. I had to write a primary source analysis on the story 'Jamila', by Chingiz Aitmatov. He's a Kyrgyz author, and it was a love story set during WWII in a farming village in what is now Kyrgyzstan. It was actually a very touching love story.

I ended up writing about how the villagers were influenced by nomadic traditions, by Islam, and by the Soviet regime, and in particular how the main character represented a Kyrgyz take on the 'New Soviet Woman'.

Thank you for the offer anyway.

Read my User Title.

Still early doors here...

Although I should be home feeding my poor cats instead of here (meh - they have enough beebles to live on, and chicken dinner when I finally get home!)

I'd just rather not come in early to finish the references & footnotes I have to add to training notes. And flicking from work to here is keeping me sane.

barefoot serpent wrote:

but remember: never go to bed angry

And never wake up grumpy. Let him sleep in.

still at work.

1:12 am pst.

it's been thanksgiving for over an hour. I celebrated early with a kitkat and a dr pepper from the vending machine.

maybe another 30 mins then I can drive home.

why are you stuck at work V?

I made a promise to have a computer ready to travel for a salesman, and I ran into several problems getting the computer ready. It took me this long to keep the promise.

What I lack in brillance I make up for in perserverance.

I am one of the few people out there that opiates make very hyper.
Pain = sleepless.
Either I can't sleep because I hurt or because I took my meds.