I just noticed I have 444 already-read mails in my inbox. And in another folder, 111. I like numbers like that.

*is sufficiently lured*

Gah I should go to bed but I don't wanna....

Mostly because I finished Under Heaven yesterday and I surely have nothing to read that would be sufficiently distracting from my sadness in finishing that story....

Finishing a good book is always ... horrible. That doesn't sound right, using "horrible" to describe a good book...

I always feel so disorientated when I have to come back to the "real" world... want to go back to the story-worlds. See what else is happening there...

Magpie wrote:

Finishing a good book is always ... horrible. That doesn't sound right, using "horrible" to describe a good book...

I always feel so disorientated when I have to come back to the "real" world... want to go back to the story-worlds. See what else is happening there...

Hahahha... I once did a marathon read of the Hobbit and LOTR and finished all books in about five days... I was seriously not suited for the "normal" world during and after that... Kept wondering where I was and how that would relate to the "real" world of Middle-Earth.....

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Yes.... I am nuts.... no doubt about it....

Magpie wrote:

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way wrote:

*grins*

The bed will surely be fine without me.... but it's more the me without bed that is worrying me.... Hehehe...

But work is not really motivational in my going to bed on time.... as I don't really feel like getting up early to go to it....

The odd thing is that I entirely understand that feeling, even though when you look at it rationally, it makes no sense at all.
Although, maybe if you're truly tired, you won't notice what happens at work. Just stumble through everything and blink sleepily at people... that's how I felt this morning.

Yes! I know... although in another way it makes perfect sense again....
And on top of it all, I am really a night person.... My story-part of the brain does not come up to speed until about ten or ten-thirty in the evening....

Blinking sleepily at people at work might not be the best option at this moment.... I'm supposed to be creating the budget for 2011.... Now, if that suddenly relates to the amount of elves needed for a well-functioning ring-bearing party, I think someone would notice it....

Dammit, you're making me wake up the rest of the family with my laughter!

I know what you're saying about your writing brain - mine is awake enough at work, creating all sorts of thoughts, which lead to a stream of chaotic notes during lunch break (yesterday I even wrote while walking to the train), but when I come home, it shuts down from tiredness, and only comes back on at bedtime.

Magpie wrote:

Dammit, you're making me wake up the rest of the family with my laughter!

I know what you're saying about your writing brain - mine is awake enough at work, creating all sorts of thoughts, which lead to a stream of chaotic notes during lunch break (yesterday I even wrote while walking to the train), but when I come home, it shuts down from tiredness, and only comes back on at bedtime.

Sorry.... but my brain is on now.... it's even worse at work right now, because nobody understand the silly remarks that I make and they look at me funnily, which means I have to laugh even harder....I really do need a smarch-sanctuary where I can just be me.... Or maybe I can convince the timegods to repeat the nice sunny Castlefest day until eternity.... But with my luck, they would prolly just get it wrong and repeat my first day at work after the holidays....

Manu and I decided, on the way home, that Castlefest should just last all summer. With different bands and sellers every week or so, staying as long as they want...

I get the crazy looks a lot, as I am another speaker-to-self and hummer-to-self.... But I even do that in the grocery shop.... I mean, it focusses my attention to the thing I should be focussing on. If I weren;t doing that,you would suddenly see me drop on on my butt in the middle of the grocery store while grabbing a book, piece of writing material or flute.... or you'd see me wandering through the shop without any idea of where I was or what I was supposed to be doing, completely lost in thought...

For the same reason I make up stories while I'm in bed waiting for sleep.... If I leave my brain un-controlled, I would never sleep one bit.... I got to focus my brain on one thing... For example the idea of Castlefest having a portal to a different universe and how I and my friends get sucked through it any become warriors and druids.... or that I meet up with that person who plays irish music and we hit it off and start a band and I get to quit my job because the band is so popular.... or whatever suits my fancy at the time of bed-going... Usually completely impossible things.... but hey, that's what dreams are for, right!

*grins*

Great minds huh?!

But I'll leave you to deal with the name-giving... I'll not be too much help in the germanic name department.... I still have to run to my German colleague to get translations to simple words like "per accident" and such....

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way wrote:

*grins*

Great minds huh?!

But I'll leave you to deal with the name-giving... I'll not be too much help in the germanic name department.... I still have to run to my German colleague to get translations to simple words like "per accident" and such....

Well, I may need to name a few Dutch people, too. I have one Austrian group, and a very international one - language chaos, hooray!

Talking about laguage chaos.... this is my private tickle of the day for the Dutch, German and English language:

Wie (/%we%/) = who in Dutch, = how in German
Hoe (/%who%/)= is how in Dutch
Who = who in English

I love that..... have a whole lot of other ones.... but I just love confusing others with these little tickles of language-outrageousness....