The good, the bad, but no ugly

[darcydodo]

The Good

Had a very cool conversation with Linda yesterday about Tarot cards and things generally inexplicable. She made me feel better about my desire to believe in things that are blatantly unbelievable, like psychic abilities and whatnot; she's had too many experiences of other people being able to do or know things they couldn't possibly. Which is not to say that I now do believe in psychic whatnot, but I at least feel better about really wanting to do so. Oh, and, girlwithjournal, she said Babel like you do too (in talking about the Tower card), but I looked it up in the OED, and it agrees with me. On the other hand, when we used to sing "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" in high school, there was a little note scrawled at the bottom of the photocopies that said 'baa,' and we followed that.

I want to do something with tarot cards. Draw pictures for some or write a story involving some or something. They've always intrigued me.


The Bad

Why oh why oh why, when I drink too much, do I invariably wake up very early in the morning?? I mean, my body really really really needs sleep, but does nice soporific alcohol allow this to happen successfully? No. Bad, very bad. And I seem to be having trouble typing double letters; like my fingers refuse to hit any particular key more than once in a row. Ah well. Maybe I'll try for an hour more sleep now, having had some nice caffeinated diet coke, which by the apparent logic of my bodily functions should probably mean that I will go back to sleep.


Lastly, no ugly, just for fun

I found out that one of my friends is bi, which amuses me to no end because it means that maybe my female gaydar doesn't suck quite quite so much as I thought. Was very funny: we randomly started singing 'it's raining men,' at which point AJ said 'I'd actually prefer the other gender' (which made sense, of course, given AJ's a guy), and we both said 'Yeah, well, me too,' and then just sort of looked at each other and wondered if we hadn't heard wrong.

Comments

[girlwithjournal.livejournal.com]

I have a really pretty Tarot deck, drawn by Dave McKean, and I'll bring it to Michele's on Tuesday, if you want. Tarot has always fascinated me. Let's play!

[darcydodo]

Sounds good to me. :)

Drank too much?

[chele74.livejournal.com]

I'm someone who regularly drinks more than I probably should...a fact that I was reminded of at a doctor's appointment yesterday where I had to revise an old form and admit that I drink more than 2-3 drinks a week. I don't think that 2-3 has ever been the case. Maybe I'm more honest now? But on the waking up early thing. It's probably better than you sober up in a semi-conscious state than get your rest, but dehydrate and feel like total hell vs. hydrated though sleep-deprived. We former Wisconsonians know plenty about the science of sobering up.

Yeah.

Another bi friend? Cuter than the faux-red classicist?

Yes, and tell Linda I say hi. Maybe one of these days my class will get cancelled again (or end!!!) so that I can visit her office hours.

Re: Drank too much?

[darcydodo]

Another bi friend? Cuter than the faux-red classicist?

Not cuter, no, but definitely nicer and saner. She's also friends with Craig and, more to the point, Craig had a crush on her for a while, so this just makes everything extremely amusing.

tell Linda I say hi

Ah, wish I'd seen this before my seminar, I could've delivered the message in person. As it is, I'll either have to resort to e-mail or wait until next week. :)

As regards dehydration, that was why the diet coke was so much my friend this morning.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I woke up particularly early today too, the day after a drunken grad social. I think it's the headache from the hangover and dehydration that wakes one up early.