So I was catching up on the latest xkcd comics, a delightful web comic that I was at first convinced was written by a woman because it was like the writer was inside my head and I’m a woman and then it turned out that it was just another web comic by some dude and not a woman at all. Anyway, I came across this one. I’m singing the song as I type, I know it’s by Rick Astley, and I’ve seen the music video, but I don’t know the term trolling or what it means to get rickrolled.
I guess this is what it feels like to be mainstream.
This New York Times article discusses seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and talks about options such as light treatment and negative ionizers. I went to the suggested questionnaire website to find out if I am in fact a night person. After I answered a few questions, it said that its diagnostic is not calibrated for somebody of my preferred sleeping hours and did I want to continue answering questions anyway? I think this means that my ideal sleep is longer than a normal person’s. For a decade now I’ve believed that my natural circadian rhythm is longer than our 24-hour day. It seems like it’s around 30 hours: asleep 12, awake 18.
I continued with the questions even though the results wouldn’t be especially accurate.
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My score is 32.
16-30
31-41
42-58
59-69
70-86
definite evening
moderate evening
intermediate
moderate morning
definite morning
YOUR MORNINGNESS-EVENINGNESS TYPE IS CONSIDERED TO BE MODERATE EVENING.
WE ESTIMATE THAT YOUR MELATONIN ONSET OCCURS AT ABOUT 11:30 PM.
WE ESTIMATE THAT YOUR “NATURAL” BEDTIME IS AT ABOUT 1:00 AM.
This information can be put to important use if you are trying to organize your daily schedule to best match with your circadian rhythm type. It is especially useful if you want to use light therapy to shift your rhythms in a desired direction (morning light shifts rhythms earlier; evening light shifts them later).
You forget that there’s an opened pack of pink & white frosted circus animal cookies in a bag on the floor and the dog will eat all of them. Eight hours later she’ll vomit pink on the carpet, stains that won’t come out after four scrubbings with SpotShot, and will poo pink for two days. At least she won’t die of insulin shock.
The complete quilt is bigger than traditional baby quilt size, which I realized when I went to buy batting and the “crib size” was a bit too short on all sides. It should fit in a crib if it’s folded or tucked under something. Plus, it will still be useful on a little bed in a few years, or spread on the floor to provide a soft surface for doing whatever it is a baby does before it can even hold up its own head, or to warm the family snuggling on the couch.
I know that white isn’t the best fabric to use for the back of a baby quilt, since it will show the stains of use and quickly lose its crisp color, but I really wanted soft flannel dinosaurs and this material was the only option for immediate purchase. (It was a race between me and the baby — who would be done first?) Note to self: close bathroom door before taking pictures of future projects. Better yet, go outside during the day for natural light.
