#prooftheory

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prooftheory said: and to think i sometimes have trouble waking up at 9am :o 

Well..this was a *very* unusual day for me.  My hope is to make it usual.  :D

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prooftheory said: …i’m aware this sounds like the Neurotypical response to insomnia but, i mean. it works a good portion of the time. it might help if you’re not ready to test out melatonin yet? b/c warning: it can make you quite groggy when you wake up prooftheory said: so i cannot vouch for melatonin, but i installed f.lux on my computer/phone and that’s really seemed to help? like if i turn all the main lights off ~1 hour before i want to fall asleep and just keep a bedside lamp on and just like, read something that isn’t a textbook or watch some youtube videos or something, my brain will /usually/ be like ‘ah, it is night, time to rest’.

ahh thanks so much!! downloading flux now.  and shit thanks for the warning about melatonin :// think I’ll hold off on that then. 

(also no this was really helpful!! i don’t think im having insomnia of a clinical variety right now, thank god, just serious difficulties adjusting my sleep schedule to something that works for my needs atm.) 

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if i get the exact gpa i got last semester for...

this is probs not the commentary you’re looking for, but nyu’s law campus is so nice like. if i were to ever go to law school i’d want to go to nyu for the campus alone

!!!!! that is so nice & good to know. wow nyu is looking better and better. thank you <3

(i just google image’d it, which probs doesn’t give much of an idea of how it is in person, but DANG O.O )

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prooftheory replied to your post ““Martin Jones’ performance in game 5 wasn’t your average hijinks at a...”

Some of the stuff the NBC commentators say make me wonder if I even speak English

Mike Milbury in particular seems to just be stringing random words together sometimes

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2015 book recs

Because @prooftheory​ asked (whenever anyone ASKS for book recs I jump on it ^_^).  (Though, I didn’t read many books this year, so that limits it a bit...)

Magellania by Jules Verne - This was my favorite fiction read this year - survival, socialism, capitalism, greed, heroism, redemption, all set in the southernmost tip of South America...literally one of the best novels I’ve read.

“Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville - really good short story

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville - moral dilemma in the Royal Navy, there’s also a great 1962 movie version

Seven Pillars of Wisdom - a great memoir on Middle Eastern history and WWI, though I recommend watching Lawrence of Arabia first

Works of Love by Søren Kierkegaard - you may have already read this one...I’m actually still in the first half of it, but it’s incredible

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Yay, a tag (thanks @prooftheory)!

Rules: tag followers you would like to get to know better.

tagging: No pressure - only if you want to: @thesnowlastthursday, @lady-barbara, @avec-leon, @obeserhino

name: Something that starts with M

nickname: My mom calls me Midge  :) but only she can.

star sign: Classified

gender: Female

height: Shorter than my brother...

favourite colours: Red, white, blue, pale pink

time right now: 11:42 PM

average hours of sleep:  Like...8-9?  I never get anything done, but I get my sleep.

lucky number: My favorite age was seven, so let’s go with seven

last thing i googled: "winnie the pooh gif”...

number of blankets i sleep with: Three, it’s positively tundra outside

favourite fictional characters: Sherlock Holmes (book version), Prince Myshkin (The Idiot), Tatyana Larina (Eugene Onegin), Alan Breck Stewart (Kidnapped), Gandalf (LOTR), Boromir (played by Sean Bean), Captain Nemo (played by James Mason)

favourite book: wha-what?  Really?  Ok... I’ll try for top five, fiction:

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin

The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

Magellania - Jules Verne

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

Oops...overflowed there a bit.  

favourite bands: Right now I like Tides from Nebula, a Polish post-rock band.  Apart from post-rock, I don’t listen to bands much, mostly individual musicians.

dream job: I want to be the genius who discovers the local, green, organic energy source that completely replaces petrol.  (Who doesn’t?)

what i am wearing right now: Flannel PJs

when you created your blog: 2013 is when I started this blog

current number of followers: It fluctuates steadily between 93 and 95, currently at 94.  I think some of them are adverts, though.

what you post about: Random thoughts, obscure literature, nature photography, and PNW stuff.  (No wonder I haven’t hit 100 followers.)

do you have any other blogs: Numerous...mostly noonlightsonata and noonlightreads on Blogger

when your blog reached its “peak” (when you got more followers, had popular posts, etc.): Without question, my blog’s little moment of glory was this off-handed post, which, after being reblogged by Powell’s, has over time reached an absurd amount of notes.  I really don’t get it.

who your most active follower is: According to Tumblr, @prooftheory and @mayakovsky6

what made you decide to get a tumblr: Wishing that I could be like the cool kids

whether you get asks on a daily basis: More like...yearly.  “It’s as dull as tombs around here.”

why you chose your url: I thought it was clever and fairly original and brings to mind Impressionist art...also I once wrote a poem called “Moonlight at Noon,” which could have been more succinctly titled “Noonlight.”  And someone (who doesn’t even blog) is sitting on that url, of course.

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tagged!

Thanks to @prooftheory​ for tag! :) This one is to list 6 facts about me:

Currently almost halfway through Seven Pillars and I have a mad crush on Lawrence (the real one), please don’t judge.

SQL is my bane right now...well not actually but it feels like it sometimes.

I gave up on a costume for tomorrow, so I’ll be wearing my Sounders shirt instead.  :)

I’ve been a vegetarian for seven months. 

Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Scorpion solitaire (off-work, I should emphasize).  It’s oddly relaxing.

I believe that sea monsters could exist, and probably do.

Let’s see, I’m not quite sure which of my followers reads my blog regularly; if you do (or don’t, haha), feel free to take this tag!

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prooftheory said: i’m in the same boat, one time the library actually made me purchase the book from them, as it was so overdue :| hope you feel better soon!!

Thanks!  :)  I don’t feel too bad this morning, thankfully it’s just a minor cold.  Yeah, they actually sent me a notice about the replacement fee ($25!!)...I rushed down there and returned it, and they cleared that part of the fine. Still embarrassing though...