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Funny Wakeup
Monday, December 26, 2005 at 8:16 am
So I stayed at my parents' home this weekend and I slept on the couch in the basement. That would have been ok and normal enough. On the other hand, though, I was making up for a whole week of too little sleep and I drank a cup of cappucino right before lying down to go to sleep. I got to sleep alright - and fast. Then I had the strangest dream where I think I was about to have surgery to remove my jaw or something like that. There was a 33% success rate with that surgery or something.
All of a sudden my mom is in my dream and I get this weird feeling that this isn't my dream. Maybe I'm in my mom's dream and I'm not actually the real me. I thought about that for a second and realized that it's kinda hard to be self-aware if I'm a figment of someone else's dream. But what if I'm her dreaming that I'm Chad. Then I just sort of decided to myself "There's only one way to find out!!" So then I woke myself up to find out. I remember being in my dream trying to wake up to find out if I'm really me or not. So I woke up and there I was, myself.
Weird, huh? Moral of the story: 'Don't ever take in a lot of caffeine just before going to bed when your body is desperately lacking sleep.'
Profound Statement
Monday, November 21, 2005 at 6:44 pm
I saw this phrase in Latin on a web site:
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
And this translates to:
"Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound."
Isn't that just the time-waster you needed today?
Dumbest Commercial Ever.
Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 5:44 am
I saw a commercial for Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and I heard this line: "I knew I had skin cancer, but I didn't know I had malignant melanoma." Apparently I'm not the first to hear this line - http://www.livejournal.com/~just0chris/53976.html
Keep it intelligent, America.
Useless Technology
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 3:20 am
Ok - so maybe completely useless technology is mankind's greatest achievement. Wouldn't surprise me, really. So I called someone in Greenville, and while on the phone I found out that I can record the other person's voice during a call. So now, my new ringtone is her saying "Hey guys, should I give Chad a new ringtone?" Next time my phone rings, you'd better hope I'm quick to answer. Her voice can get to be...annoying on a cell phone speaker (or without ;-)).
The Battle Has Begun
Monday, September 12, 2005 at 4:46 am
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world - Post It notes!!! I slept for 30 hours this weekend. Call that lazy? I don't. I call it the first smart thing I've done in a month. The Thief is taking away my very livelihood: my motivation. Sadly, one night short on sleep makes a second night even harder to resist. The human body is very susceptible to conditioning, which normally is good because it means I can put my mind to better use as long as I make the right habits. How do you pull yourself out of a rut? You pull really hard!
That's just what I did. I put Post-It notes all over my apartment. Just like in the movie Back to the Future, where the Doc learns how to make his time machine by leaving himself a note (well, ok - he unknowingly sent a videotape back in time...). Except I'm doing it with post-it notes and without any of those pesky Space-time continuum paradoxes.
Post-it note on the alarm clock to tell me to get up the first time it goes off, a post-it on the shower to tell me to take my bicycle before taking a shower, a post-it note on a box of cereal strategically placed by my laptop saying "Eat this," and even a reassuring post-it on the back door to my biçycle saying "Yes, this way."
Will it be easy? I'm sure it won't be. Can I do it? Absolutely. It's not the first time I've gotten into something like this, but I'm making it my goal that this is the last time I have to fight my way out of the unmotivation zone.
