Priorities

The Universe has obviously decided that, despite my intentions, sleep is not currently a high priority for me. Other, more important issues, are to take precedent over my being fully rested.

I had a lovely, relaxing day on Monday. I slept until I was rested (and still got up before 8am), attended to correspondence, hung out with my daughter, saw Nanny McPhee, turned in two bags of miscellaneous books and videos to Half Price Books and received $27 -- a much better than usual rate. Then bought a $2 copy of Henry James' The Bostonians, which was notably cited in the background material in the lobby and program of Boston Marriage and which I'm hoping will be a much better exploration of themes similar to Mamet's play.

Then I went across the street and spent time in Borders but didn't buy anything (!!) -- although I did browse a copy of Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, which I've got in my "looking at" list at Amazon and which I have now purchased (in the midst of writing this entry) for $3.50 instead of $24.00. Went to my neighborhood grill, had a soda and a snack and did some browsing of my existing tarot books for more insight into the "Justice" card, but didn't find anything that I found particularly enlightening.

Came home, did LJ while listening to my daughter play with her stepsisters in our living room -- a fascinating experience. The steps went upstairs around 8pm and then, at my daughter's request, we put Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing in the DVD player. And yes, it really is one of those "Makes Me Believe in Love" movies. It was also fun to say to my daughter, "Do you recognize Smee from Peter Pan? And Vultan from Flash Gordon? And the cook from Nanny McPhee? And the Glover from St Peter's Fair [A Brother Cadfael episode.] And one of the guys from Bill and Ted?" (We don't own the latter, but she's seen it.) I always want to slap Claudio several times during the movie, and Ken's Benedict makes me swoon.

So at shortly after 10pm, the daughter and I went to bed. And less than ten minutes later the train of thought I was following suddenly turned up an important insight directly related to that intense conversation I had with queenofhalves on Saturday afternoon. I lay there for a while telling myself that I would remember it -- but then realized I really needed to get up and journal it for a while, or I was likely to lose it. So it was after 11 before I actually got to bed and was able to sleep. Which is too late for me, when I get up at 5:15am.

As it was, I set the alarm for 5:40, but I'm still starting the day tired.

But it was an extremely important insight, so I really shouldn't complain.

Fortunately, Jeannie and Co. are all going to be out on the road show starting today, so my work day should be fairly quiet.

Because I'm Curious

First seen on the LJ of pathdancer

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