Whinefest 2005!

Ugh. If this isn't a rotten day, I honestly don't know what would be. It's only 49 degrees outside, and it's cloudy and wet. We had the mother of all rainstorms last night, and now my car's driver's seat is all wet. Before you ask, no, I didn't for get to put the window up. The switch that operates my window has a short or something (lousy Nissans) and I can't raise OR lower the windows or use the power locks. So, to make a long story short (Too late!), despite covering the seat, I have a damp fanny. Forgive me if that language was a little to graphic. "Damp fanny" just happens to be a hilarious phrase, particularly if you say it out loud.

So I overslept this morning, as usual. I got up at about 6:30, and I needed to leave by 6:50 at the latest. As it was, I was on time for class, but I feel all scuzzy. I need to start going to bed earlier, but late night is when I function best, and can get the most done, school work and devotion wise. For example, right now, I'm at about 65% mental capacity. 12 hours fom now, I'll be at about 98%. That's as high as I ever get. I leave that last 2% available for assorted wanderings of the mind. You know, bizarre free associations and streams of consciousness, stuff like that. Without that precious 2%, this particular blog wouldn't be half as interesting, and that would be sad.

I left school early today, obviously. I'm supposed to be there until 12:50, but I'm not feeling so well. I'm really tired for some odd reason (If you are reading this and you know my sleep habits, no, it's not from staying up late. I'm more sleepy than usual.) and my back, or what's left of it, really hurts. I have that pain running down into my right leg thing happening. At least my foot isn't tingling, and as I told a friend earlier, it could be a lot worse. At least I can still walk. I look like a question mark sometimes, but I'm still on my feet.

Coffee has a fun new trick. It's called "Scare the Wits (Ha, ha!) Out of Lori as She's About to Doze Off." The way this trick works is he lies on the floor sleeping soundly. Then, just as I'm in that presleep state where I'm sort of dreaming, he suddenly shakes his head REALLY hard, slapping he ears violently against the floor. Now, I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the javahound and rather large floppy ears. He also has a large head, and pretty strong head shaking muscles. In the state I'm in as I drift off, this head-shaking, ear-slapping extravaganza sounds just like someone pounding on my bedroom door. Now that'll make you sit bolt upright with speed. By the time I realized no one was there and my heart left the general region of my small intestine, Coffee was already back asleep, looking cute as a giant button. I think he did it on purpose.

OK. That's enough of that. I promise my next post will be cheerful and full of fun. I think I'm going to this really cool exhibit of biblical artifacts tomorrow. I'll talk about how cool it was and give you info if you want to go. Right now it's in High Point, NC, but it travels. Have a great one!!!