i didn’t go to sleep last night. now that i think back on it, there really was absolutely no reason i needed to stay up. i pulled a meaningless all-nighter, with no work needing to be done and, accordingly, nothing to show for it.
still, there is something fascinating about the hours between 3 and 5 am. i feel like, if any time is my time, that cold and pregnant third watch is mine. maybe it’s just that, since no other soul is awake then, i feel a legitimate and unchallenged monarch of that two-hour domain. i love the tension, the restlessness, the fear that if you drop off either something horrible will happen, or something amazingly beautiful will flicker briefly into being without consulting or notifying you, and then just as quickly disappear, all while your consciousness lays chained behind closed eyelids. there is no such a crisp, cold, and clear time as the dead of night just before dawn, and whenever i am awake during it i feel as if i might accidentally start an adventure.
unfortunately, i used my free time last night searching the internet for long lost friends (from my old, more nerdily inhabited, days whiled away in the star wars cantina: an internet chat room on the wbs network), taking a shower of record length (probably close to an hour–yes, i wasted a lot of water, yes i feel suitably bad about it), and listening to the four cds i bought on impulse yesterday at an exorbitant price.
i did, of course, read a few chapters of mostly harmless, book five of the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy trilogy by douglas adams. it is a work of pure genius, as were the four novels before it. this is most clearly evidenced by the fact that his trilogy has five books in it: who else could boast of such a thing? anyway, i will very rarely laugh when i read books, even if they are freaking hilarious, and i laugh constantly when reading adams. ergo: the series is freaking hilarious times a billionfinity. ergo: read it.
it struck me just now that, not only was i foolish enough to stay awake all night for no reason, which will throw my clock off and prevent me from designing a website today by 5:15 (an externally imposed deadline, of course), i actually went to my 8am class instead of going to bed. how dumb you can you get? i mean … hey.
virtual disc on spin: ( ) | sigur ros
