Saturday, January 28, 2006

the lazy bastard gets lazier ...

Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been around all that much this week. I have been posting pretty regular, but I haven't been up as late as usual, which means I've missed timely comments on many of your blogs. It's also meant that I haven't been around to chat on my various I.M. programs.

The main reason is a serious case of lazy assedness. Of phelgmatica majora. Of addiction to sleeping. I've been in something of hibernation mode.

Perhaps it's a result of getting the two teeth ripped from jaw; my body's way of healing to demand more sleep.


Most afternoons, after coming home from work, I usually end up dozing for an hour or three ... or more ... and yet, I've still been getting extremely tired around midnight to 12:30 a.m. ... which is SERIOUSLY early for me. When I go to bed "early," that usually means 1:30 a.m. My usual bed time is 2:30 to 3 a.m.

And it's not as if I've been waking up extra early to compensate. Wait. That's not true. I HAVE been waking up early. I just haven't STAYED up once I've woken early. Instead, I've retreated under the covers for another two to three or even four hours sleep ... depending on how early it was that I woke up.

Today (Saturday for me) was a perfect example.

I went to sleep around 12:30 a.m. Tired. Dead tired. Passed out soon after.

Woke up around 7 a.m. Got out of bed to pee and stayed up a little because my favorite person in the world was online — home for her lunchtime — and I hadn't "seen" or talked with her all week, because our schedules are such that the only time we usually can spend together is my late night — and I've been sleeping. Sometimes I'm able to come home for lunch and we can meet up then, maybe even play a little Diablo II, but it's been nuts at work lately — meetings galore, and almost always at lunchtime, so I haven't been able to do that much.

So we talk for a bit and she heads back to work ... and I go back to bed. For about another four hours.

I wake up, do some work at the computer, then head out for a quick lunch, and then my office time — which would have been shorter if I'd have stayed up longer last night doing editing. I get home around 6 p.m. I get into bed before 7 p.m., to ostensibly watch TV, and end up passing out until about 10:30 p.m.

Yikes. Yowza. Gadzoinks. How lazy is that?

Well ... perhaps as the healing process finishes — I only have nagging dull aches and irritation, which seem to be easing and abating daily — I'll soon to be back to my late-night normality.

Random Guam Fact Of The Day:
• The Chamorro word for "lazy person" is "balibagu." As in, "LaƱa! Duane is fucking gof balibagu!"

Friday, January 27, 2006

the pleasures that instill guilt ...

The Five Guilty Pleasures Meme. The rules:

Simply list or write an entry about five of your guilty pleasures. Then choose five other bloggers to tag.

DZER’s Five Guilty Pleasures
1. Strippers. I like ‘em. I love ‘em. I want some more of ‘em.

2. Getting my head shaved. I can do this myself. I have in the past, especially when I was super poor and mega in debt. But you can’t beat the feeling of a straight razor on the scalp …

3. Poker. It’s the only real form of gambling that I enjoy. I have to stay away from the Texas Hold ‘Em tournaments though; I still have to cultivate more patience for that game.

4. Golf. This is an indulgence for anyone. Seriously — is there another “sport” that costs so much, not even counting the gambling done? (OK, so I lied about poker being the ONLY form of gambling I enjoy). Also, is there any other game in which most of the time you know you suck, you hate the game (especially YOUR game) and yet you still can’t wait to do it the next time?

5. Eating out. I really can and should cook more. But I like having someone else do it. Even better, if another person fetches it for me. LOL

Five bloggers who are now tagged: Chrissie; Natalia; Kim; Buttah; Jax.

100 things about DZER ...

100. DZER loves to play poker; he wishes it was his profession.

99. DZER enjoys speaking of himself in the third person.

98. DZER is phlegmatic, lazy and a serial procrastinator.

97. As a result, DZER often has trouble finishing things on a timely basis.