Why am I tired today?

Why am I tired today? Hmmm . . . let's review yesterday.

Alarm goes off at 5:30am
After some snooze-buttoning, I get up at 6:00am (after less than 6 hours of sleep)
I leave at 7:00am, walk to the Metro (15 minutes)
Take the Metro to Dupont Circle Walk from Dupont Circle to Georgetown University (30 minutes)
Teach my General Psychology class at GU Walk from Georgetown to Dupont Circle (30 minutes)
Take the Metro to Rockville Walk from the Metro to Montgomery College (30 minutes)
Do various teaching-related tasks while eating lunch (yay for lunch, I'm starving by now)
Teach my Psychology of Women class at MC (great discussion of gender stereotypes)
Walk from MC to the Metro (30 minutes)
Take the Metro to Medical Center Walk from the Metro to my house (15 minutes)
Hug Q and chat with him a bit
Eat dinner
Prepare for the restaurant gig
Drive to restaurant, stretch and finish getting ready to perform.
They make me wait an extra 15 minutes before I perform. Ordinarily not a problem, but by now I am painfully tired.
Dance for 27 minutes (decent show, but not my best)
Drive home
Change clothes and scrape the makeup off my face
Stare at computer for an hour
Q comes home from meeting, we watch some TV (yay for classic Trek), and collapse into bed.

I think I walked 8-10 miles yesterday, which will be typical for every Monday and Wednesday this semester, because I have no patience to wait for the bus. I also find that buses are more erratic with regard to time of arrival, so I can't plan my day as effectively, while my walking times are quite consistent, making me confident of my ETA. Plus, I'm getting good exercise.

But I'm tired today. I hope this gets easier.

Ribbon Heaven in Hagerstown, MD

Anyone want to come shop for ribbons with me?

Holiday humor

Make your own digital fruitcake -- way fun! Pulled from Pomegranates and Paper. I also got a giggle from these ideas for amusing oneself in a department store.

I liked this categorization of gadgetry in Marc Fisher's Washington Post blog. For example:

Category #2: The Interesting Idea That Bombs This year's entry in this category is Story Blankets. Speaking of absentee parenting, get this idea: Instead of lying down with the little one and falling asleep in their bed, thereby wiping out that tiny window of adult time at the end of the long day, you could tuck a kiddie in under a blanket that also sings a lullaby and tells a story. No, really: This is a big fluffy duvet cover and comforter that has a big brick of a battery in it powering a three-minute-long sound and light show featuring 133 tiny LEDs and a tinkling tune that you activate by pressing a button in the blanket.

Instant intimacy? No, horrifying nightmare. The kids we tested this on were uniformly appalled or freaked. They called the thing creepy, sick and worse. "If the parent wants to abandon the child, fine, but don't stick them in a room with this thing," my son said.

::shudder::

Don't mess with old women

Check out this video (contributed by one of my students).

Cool link -- you know you want to see!

From bones to boots: drawing a woman from the inside out.

A single sheet of paper

Very cool use of sheets of paper -- incredibly precise and strangely compelling.

Today's funniest typos

I'm grading papers on sexuality education, and students make all kinds of spelling and typographical errors, some of which end up being kind of funny (emphasis added):

"Likewise my children will be in an environment that promotes abstinence, as well as other important life lesions."

"When I see that she starting [sic] to grow boobs I will buy her a brawl . . ."

Rugelach

I have discovered the danger of rugelach. Why did no one tell me? It's ok, though . . . they're all gone now.

Let us never speak of this again.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Feast and family -- what could make the day better?