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Would I win an iPod War, or would my soft spot for Dave Matthews be my undoing?

This was kind of funny until they used up all their bandwidth. Maybe it'll come back up at some point.

So, I eventually made it up to school last night and got some work done while chatting with Sabrina about housing options. Of course, after I got home, I had to watch the Family Guy. And I couldn't stop there; I had a perfectly good episode of American Dad waiting for me after that. So, it ended up being late by the time I got to bed. That, coupled with my late night on Friday and my early (for a weekend) mornings Saturday and Sunday resulted in a very tired Ward this morning.

I fought to stay awake all during lab meeting. Pinching myself and tapping my foot didn't keep my eyes focused; every time they stopped moving I had to fight to keep them from closing. I had better luck with constantly keeeping them moving, looking around the room. I made it through, barely. I swear it hasn't always been like this. I don't think I started falling asleep in class until high school. By college, it was academic. If I printed out reviews from Pitchfork or played games on my calculator or Palm, I had no trouble, but if I had to pay attention, I was gone. It spread to Sunday school at some point. Now it happens in lab meetings. Sometimes coffee helps, but sometime it just makes me very nervous and irritable but keeps me sleepy.

Anyway, the boss was back and seemed to be in a good mood. Oliver's thinking about joining the lab, which probably aided that. Then he was gone all afternoon, so I had a fairly easy day in which to work on my project that I'm also using for my Rice class. Apparently, the writeup on that was due on Friday, and we didn't realize it. So, naturally, right now I need to be editing it, but it's basically done.

As she had suggested, I called Dana tonight. I swear, that shit never gets any easier. For modern life, I swear, adrenaline is a hindrance. I don't need to be ready to fight or fly when I'm trying to ask a girl out. Anyway, it went well. We had the requisite amount of small talk and tentatively set something up for Thursday, assuming she gets off work on time. Thank God that's out of the way. Oh, and I rule.