It's odd, but more and more lately, I've been concentrating on reading the blogs of others and devoting less attention to my own. And no, I'm not perusing the LiveJournals of random 18 and 19 year old girls, trolling for a hopeful glimpse of naked flesh, buried amidst the bad grammar and "OMGWTFBBQLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!1111" nonsense. I've actually been reading some worthwhile stuff - issues about which I have some degree of passion and interest.

For instance, check out Jeff Jarvis' blog entitled "Buzzmachine" here. I'm addicted to this blog these days and I initially learned of its existence on Howard Stern, of all places. So, who is Mr. Jarvis? According to his site:

"JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday Editor of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He is now president & creative director of Advance.net."

A lot of what he discusses involves the First Amendment and the FCC, but overall, I tend to like (and agree with) much of what he has to say. It's definitely a good read and he updates rather frequently, often with several updates in a given day (I could take a page from him right there). So, if you'll excuse me, I need to catch up on reading some of the comments from today's posts on Buzzmachine...

Okay, I finally figured out why I've been feeling like garbage all day...and it's due to my own stupidity. I forgot to take my prescription for the past couple of days (just slipped my mind apparently) and it started to wreak havoc on my system by way of withdrawal symptoms and such. I think after today, I'm not going to have as much difficulty actually remembering to down those damned pills every day. Urgh.

Almost forgot... Rest in peace, Dimebag. You'll be missed.

Ugh. For some reason, I've felt really dizzy all day. My office is unusually warm today so that might play a part in it - or it could just be a fever. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night either, so that might not be helping matters. Damn it, I am not getting sick for X-Mas again this year. I refuse to. Especially not when I have so much work to do outside of work - tape/DVD copies, freelance website work, etc. Frankly, I'd like to just go home and go to sleep, but I can't afford to. Even caffeine isn't doing it for me today. I even made a quick run to Burger King and grabbed a couple burgers, thinking I might just need food in my stomach...that didn't help either. Hmph.

Hopefully I can get out of work somewhat early today and get my work done at home in a reasonable amount of time. All my X-Mas gifts are wrapped up and the ones that needed shipping are already on their way and should arrive on Saturday or Monday. So, at least that's one less thing I have to worry about.

Okay, back to work...gotta at least keep up an appearance of productivity here and there.

Ugh, I ate too much at the holiday staff party. But at least my soup was a hit! And I think I'll actually still have a little bit left to take home tonight too. Now, I think I'll just take a nap at my desk so I'm not totally dead when I go out with Danielle tonight...

Gads, I haven't blogged since November 20th? And I was doing so well too...

Of course, I suppose that's because not a whole lot's been going on here. My X-mas shopping is all completed, I'm just waiting for items to arrive on my doorstep so I can wrap them up (and ship them out when applicable). Currently my big stress of the season is going to be doing videotape copies of the dance recitals I did this past weekend and then the Nursery/Pre-K shows I'm taping next week as well. It's worth it, however, due to the money involved. I may snag a few VCRs from work to make the duplications go a bit quicker. Six VCRs running per 2 hour run (for the dance recitals) versus my own three VCRs...well, you do the math. It's a big difference, especially if I'm doing a run of 60 tapes or so. The Nursery/Pre-K shows are only about twenty minutes apiece, so it'll speed those up too, just not to the same degree.

I think my medication's been making me have really odd dreams. Ever since I got put on this prescription, my REM sleep has been wildly active. End of the world scenarios, zombies, weird Army of Darkness references (although, that's probably from playing the PS2 Evil Dead game recently). Hell, last night I had one of those odd "Doors that keep changing their locations" dreams where I kept ending up in different areas/rooms. I also saw a buffalo pulling a giraffe and a dead cow on chains. And then a fenced in area with, uh, writhing animal parts. Add in the zombies and you have a good old time. This one half-zombie/half-human scientist in the dream even made me and Danielle (yes, she was in the dream at scattered locations, due to the strange doors) a roll-on deodorant that would kill the zombies on contact. Then later in the dream, I fell from the sky, landing in a city street filled with zombies and people fighting them. Yep, I was Ash, apparently. Except instead of a chainsaw, I had some odd Borg-claw-looking apparatus that acted as a machine gun and I had a sling on my back with a slew of throwing spikes.

I haven't had dreams this vivid in years...or if I have, I certainly haven't been able to remember so many details. I could actually draw out entire locations within the dreams...if I could draw, that is. Oh yeah...I also found out that if a human is urinating blue, they're a few heartbeats away from turning into a zombie. These dreams are wrought with literary possibilities.

Our staff holiday party here at the Library is tomorrow and I may actually make some food this year. My plan right now is to make Apple Cheese Soup, a dish I made a few years ago for some family holiday dinner. I just need to get all the materials and crank it out tonight. Then, I'll just have to restrain myself from eating all of it. So, if you're looking for me tonight online...I may be knee-deep in soup, requiring some sort of daring rescue.