haven't had much out of the ordinary going on lately. i've actually sat and thought a bit lately what i could post about and not much has come to mind.

i've done a much better job lately at getting off the computers (less blogging, eh?) and doing something else. i took a break after alias season 2 and watched showtime's sleeper cell, which was great. i've picked alias season 3 back up now.

i've gotten hooked on gran turismo 4 lately, which is the first time in a while where i've had a game where i'll actually play it for a couple hours at a time. it's just one of those games that has a ton of stuff to do in a mostly non-linear fashion so there's a lot of freedom just to do whatever you want however you want. i've actually made more of an event out of it lately where i'll grab a drink & a snack and just sit down with it for a while. some weird combinations such as iced tea & pop tarts and coke & sour patch kids.

it's becoming more and more apparent to me the further from college we get the more i'm in the minority of still living like a punk college kid at times. i dunno if it's expected from me but i can't stop being a night owl. in a month alayna will have been living with me for a year now, and in that time i've never really gotten any good at shutting down for the night at reasonable times. i think for a while i got a little better at going into work earlier, but that was relatively short-lived and i've returned to later hours. i've basically adopted a policy of going into work at 9:30 when i'm working out at the end of the day and 10 or 10:30 when i'm coming straight home.

i haven't really improved at all on the bedtime side, either. i think for a while i was doing better at hitting the sack a little after 2am, but i've now slipped even further that i had before. i'd say i average 3:30 most of the time, but occasionally i'll scheme things where i only sleep 4-9ish and go into work at 10. i used to be better at being tired from the week friday nights and going to be early enough to actually have a bit of a saturday morning. for some reason i've backslid on that as well and typically friday & saturday nights collapse into bed between 5 and 6am. then alayna tries to wake me up at noon and i either convince her to go away or get up and each lunch, only to go take a 1-2hr nap after.

lately i've tried to hit the sack between 2 and 2:30 and for the most part it hasn't gone well at all. it almost always takes me a good half hour to fall asleep and often i'll fall asleep and wake up 20 minutes later to some kind of confusing dream. that kinda stuff makes me not even wanna try it the following night.

what makes things worse in a way is that on some days i can easily get away with working from home. that doesn't exactly motivate you to start working right at 8am or anything. i've found that i usually get as much done from home as i ever do at work, and that's even with taking 10 minutes here and there to do various odds & ends.

i can't really say i have much of a plan to change any of this. i'm simply observing that i'm knowing less and less people lately that can sympathize with this sort of lifestyle.

--j