RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

Gah. Those went up fast. 5.5 hours plus a snooze in the chair.  Gorgeous day out. Taking a break from war news to listen to a legislative bill-signing. HIGH Excitement.

Somewhere over 4 hours of sleep. I should pay better attention to when my body wants to sleep and aim to be ready to be in bed and NOT have one more round of youtube videos before being home and brushing my teeth. Why do I need to be reminded of this? I made the grownup decision to watch a video about who killed Boris Nemtsov, a Russian reformer murdered in 2014 partly because of his views about the annexation of Crimea. It turns out, according to the Guardian with info from Belling Cat, the Russian national database related to booking ANY kind of transportation (idk about uber and lyft and taxis) Magistral or major highway is both a data feast for assassination squads AND a hot commodity on the international dark web data market for stolen data. The not commodity part and the fact that assassination squads book their surveillance trips in the same system makes a GOLD mine. This is all fascinating in a morbid and dystopian way. It is also NOT the most soothing bedtime content.  Hap...

almost six hours of sleep. Going to bed too late only works if one can go back to bed in the morning. TRYING to inch the duration up longer. Trying. As for the car crashes, it's just depressing when someone gets hit twice in his own neighborhood, never mind resonance with other crashes in the lives of people one knows. Meanwhile thanks to the truck driver who got a roof shearing from a pedestrian bridge, Twitter is full of we're certain it's a good idea chatter about speed limits and traffic calming in the arboretum. I MUST do more walking and aren't these fun! And I get to enjoy azaleas on my way to Taco time.  

On the way to the bus stop about 5.5 hours of sleep, I think or maybe almost 6 Up in time for breakfast and shower before 9 am worship. Monday shower ritual: clean the glob of gooey soapy hair left behind from Saturday shampoo out of the Tub Shroom. Sorry not sorry if this is TMI. Also scour callus on bottom of one foot. And then it's off to the races and zoom co-hosting on a screen big enough to think about faces instead of on my phone. Oh the responsibilities of tech geekiness. Yesterday was the kind of spring day when even the dandelions evoke joy. But whose bright idea was it to schedule cherry blossom day and move back in on campus day for the same weekend and then not tell the cherry blossom gawkers to TAKE TRANSIT. I mean, the red camelias are also gorgeous and it's always something to celebrate when i can see out the bus window. Looking at them for minutes on end while the bus creeps forward, though....? And I so wish my mother and I lived only one transit segment apart...

Around 5.5 hours of sleep. If the human does not have the wit to put her hand back under the covers after about the tenth time the cat licks her knuckles, she deserves to have to wake up. It's cherry blossom move back to campus time. Do not go anywhere near the university. In front of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow Sign says 6th commandment do not kill  

somewhere under 6 hours of sleep Vocabulary lessons from Senate hearings. Not quite as ... as the former President but If every behaves really well there might be pictures of actual nature tomorrow or one of these days, tree pictures. I want some pots of herbs in one window. Today was go buy cat food and appreciate nature time. Stay home and turn ingredients into food time will be another day. Happy saturday. Happy Spring.

About 4.5 hours of sleep A bit of humor in solidarity with everyone who is disgusted and triggered by Republican blubbering about a certain judicial nomination.