be patient i am getting to the point

today was the first day back at school. i get to campus early (and by that i mean 6:45 pm) and go to the bookstore to try to get the book i need for my monday class that i was supposed to order three weeks ago. the bookstore is located in the JC, which also holds the main food court, a library, a computer lab, and a bunch of couches and stuff. it's basically the main hangout for most people on campus. i get there during feeding time and mobs of hungry college students are not fun to navigate through, let me tell you that.

but this is not a post about my return to school for my last semester of master's as a full-time student. (next semester i'll only take one class.) this is one of the posts where i swamp you with links to things that caught my attention.

random off topic side note: sometimes i really wish i could just ctrl+f my room to find what i need. 

first, a link telling you when the best time to sleep is. you know the feeling when you wake up completely rested, realize you still have half an hour before you have to get up, go back to sleep, and wake up again feeling like you haven't slept in years? apparently that's because the first time you woke up was between sleep cycles and the second was in the middle of a sleep cycle. waking up mid-cycle makes you feel groggy and tired for the rest of the day. this site will tell you the optimal times for you to sleep so that your alarm will catch you between cycles.

second, with our wonderful generation of people that have the vocabulary of mimes, words are dying. people don't want to spell words with more than one letter and can barely manage to pronounce multi-syllable words as it is, so the more obscure words are falling right through the cracks of all the hearts that are breaking over our ignorance. what can you, awesome reader, do to help these poor words? well, you can mosey on over to here and adopt one to use regularly and return it to the common vocabulary. i did. actually, i adopted three. they sit there yelling "choose me!" "pick me!" "over here!" in these high voices that broke my heart because i knew the ones not picked were close to death, and even my sister couldn't narrow my list down to less than three. so my words are: vacivity (emptiness), cosmogyral (whirling round the universe), and sevidical (speaking cruel and harsh words). aren't they beautiful? let it be known that chrome does not recognize any of my words as belonging to the dictionary.

while scrolling through blogs of pretty things, the list of things that i don't need, would never use, but reallyreallyreally want has grown to include: a calendar that would let me look back and know my overall mood for every day of the year, pillow cases with stories on them (this actually looks like a really fun thing to make), a mini car jumper thing (if you only knew how many times we've all forgotten the lights of the car on in my family, you'd realize how useful this would be), lightbulb planters, a usb typewriter, an awesome recycled suitcase chair, a moleskine kindle cover, a mural on a wall papered by book pages (though i probably couldn't destroy a book), these old fashioned telephones, this office in a trunk, socks for chair legs, and this nesting bookcase (though my mind changes about this one from like to not like every time i look at it). i would put pictures but this post is already too long, and i'm too lazy.

also, if you like to write but can never manage to just sit down and do it, this is a kind of cool site. you basically go and write one page per day into it (just plain writing with no formatting or anything). you can write more if you want, and they'll send you gentle reminders if you miss a day. after a while, go back and read what you've written. it may just be the next great american novel.

oh, and have you noticed that it is still january? is it just me or have four months already passed this month?

*Spinning - Jack's Mannequin