Dear Insomnia:

Dear Insomnia:

I loathe you. I really do. I've been lying in bed for a while now, and I need to be at work in seven and a half hours. There's no way I'll get enough sleep now, and that is seriously frustrating.

Please, just leave, and let me get some sleep.

Sincerely,

Tired

ps. Maybe you can take that migraine with you when you leave? Thanks.

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The above is a letter that I wrote in my head last night. I considered crawling out of bed to jot it down here but didn't. Maybe my writing it now will convince insomnia to leave me alone tonight. Eh, I can hope.

Once I'd had one mug of coffee before work, and two cups of tea at work, I woke up properly. The migraine even seemed disappear entirely in the last hour of work, and luckily it was mild today anyways. I'm honestly not sure how I would have managed if it had been at its worst.

...food fight?

I cleaned the rat cages this evening. Things went pretty normally, though with the new fact that I'm not putting Kora and Aniki in with Sabine even briefly. (Let's just say that Sabine isn't playing nice anymore. This is an unpleasant and depressing fact for both her and me.) Nothing out of the ordinary happened until I put the younger girls back in their own cage.

Niki came to greet me when I was bending over to pick up the trash bag I'd been using, so I was more or less on eye level with her. Of course I was mildly distracted by how adorable she is, and failed to notice that she had something in her mouth until she threw it at me. I looked down...and realized it was food.

That rat threw her food at me.

I don't know if she: 1) was thanking me for cleaning her cage, 2) was requesting different food, 3) was trying to initiate a food fight, or 4) all the above.

Whichever it is, I am still extremely perplexed and amazed.

Adorable Niki is adorable

In other news, I have a temp job that starts on the day this post goes up. This is the first work I've had this year, so I'm pretty happy, and just hoping that my unemployment stint is pretty much over.

Finding Narnia

Book cover

Now that I've completed the Dresden Files novels, I'm finally moving on to reading The Chronicles of Narnia. This did present me with one problem though: actually finding the books.

I realized that this might be a challenge when I searched the library catalog. I found cookbooks, an official guide, computer games, manuals for the computer games, and in general just lots of books written about the books I want to read. Which might have been nice if I wanted to cook, but it meant that I had a bit of a hard time finding the actual books written by C.S Lewis.

Narnia. It's difficult to find.

Maybe I shouldn't complain. It's an amazing thing when books capture the imagination so that other people feel compulsed to write about them, make games based on the imagined world, and even write cookbooks. It's just...can't the original books be placed at the top of this list in the library catalog?

After a bit of looking I did manage to find a giant book that contains all the novels, and even has them in chronological order. I also discovered that I do remember reading the first one years ago, though for some reason I didn't exactly take to it.

I've finally found Narnia (or I can pretend that I have), and it's certainly an interesting place.