I told the story a little more dramatically than it really happened. My friend was working on her computer, while the kids watched a movie. It was already set that she had to leave at 3 pm, to pick up the older kid. So 3 pm happened to come while I was passed out on the floor.
I had my first "fall asleep while trying to put Zardoz to sleep". Naturally, Blume took a picture of me asleep on the floor, with Zardoz peering at me brightly.
Don't worry, I'm sure they assumed you were drunk, not rude.
Are you sure it was just because you were tired? Do you have both kidneys?
I'm revising something I wrote while I was sleep-deprived. It's taking longer than I expected, because a lot of it sounds about right, but is actually wrong in subtle ways.
So where were Ace and the HPs during your blackout? Did you friend just leave them roaming the house like animals?
Did you friend just leave them roaming the house like animals?
ITYM "like the animals they are".
They were watching a movie! Actually, Jammies was working from home. So there was an adult presence, although not one that mitigated the social awkwardness.
I am impressed if Ace is up to roaming.
Is the picture of Zardoz and papa in the pool? No? Sads.
I think the caption is just "sensing awkwardness".
Is the picture of Zardoz and papa in the pool? No?
Oh, hell no.
Oh, hell no.
I'll bet the baby looks photogenic.
Following on to ten...
In the you kids category, is the reference got by youse? What about our knife-crime island contingent?
There's not much to it. It's the caption to a Far Side cartoon.
Yeah, I was just musing. Thinking that the cartoon might be 20 years old (or older) and wondering how many younger folx are familiar with it. Touchstones of the past and nostalgia. I used "shocked, shocked" today and felt it necessary to preface it with "As Captain Renault says in Casablanca".
We're now further removed in time from the start of the Far Side than the start of the Far Side is from the Korean War.
The far side of the Far Side is the near side to the Korean War.
Kids born in 2013 never didn't know that the Korean War is over.
We're now further removed from the start of Peanuts than one of my dad's teeth is from the rest of his teeth.
We're now further removed from Charles Schultz's death than Charles Schultz's death was from the original publication of the earliest comics in the second volume of The Complete Far Side.
Your dad's teeth aren't national treasures, Moby!
Wait, are they?
May I have one?
We're now further away from January 2013 than we are from September 2013.
We're further away from the fall of the Berlin Wall than we are from 9/11.
If I had to rank the fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, and today in chronological order, I'd probably put the fall of the Berlin Wall first. But it'd be close.
We're now further away from the beginning of this thread than we are from the end of this thread.
The Berlin Wall took longer to fall than it took me to write this comment.
The dentists have a (hopefully) less crooked thing where you mail your old dental gold in for cash. His previous tooth was worth like fifty bucks. The one before that was probably worthless once extracted.
We're now closer to death than each other.
Also unlike your comment, it was a wall.
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Awkwardly: a loved friend's book is out.
Some reviews viewable here -- this might be something AWB would be interested in.
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Unlike 38, this comment is addressing the comment that it intends to address.
You know. I still feel pretty damn embarrassed that I actually laid down and went to sleep on the floor in front of a houseguest.
Try doing that when you are a houseguest, just to provide a point of comparison.
Try doing that when you are a houseguest, just to provide a point of comparison.
If you do it twice, you'll have a line of comparison!
It's good that she's a friend; that means she probably didn't take any of your stuff while you were sleeping.
It isn't science if it isn't replicable.
40: Oh, that's supposed to be embarrassing?
We're now closer to death
Always already closer.
45: Or she knew what to take that wouldn't be missed right away.
It is cute fashionable to be so carefree as to nap on the floor with a guest visiting.
Oh honey, you have three wee nippers! She should be honored to ever see you when you're NOT asleep.
52: What??? Children aren't enough and now the Geebies have taken in a family of snapping turtles?
I was going to quote something from The Sotweed Factor to 48 and 49, but I see that I have previously quoted it five times on this blog.
37! I... know that author very very well!
52: The better to bleast feed you with.
Heebie, if it makes you feel any better, I have done this too. After a weekend in which I had a total of four hours sleep, I was invited to a girl's house for dinner(which she cooked) and utterly failed to impress her by falling asleep at table while she was out of the room. Three hours later I woke up. Shed cleared the table and gone to bed.
Heebie, if it makes you feel any better, I have done this too. After a weekend in which I had a total of four hours sleep, I was invited to a girl's house for dinner(which she cooked) and utterly failed to impress her by falling asleep at table while she was out of the room. Three hours later I woke up. Shed cleared the table and gone to bed.
...and then double-posted about it. That's much worse.
Last time I passed out on Heebie's floor, you can bet I had a better lead-in story.
When I first started grad school, I used to pass out on the floor of my apartment in the middle of the day. I shared it with two other people who regularly came home and thought I'd been killed, and I was woken by their screams. I'd just come home and throw myself on the floor next to the couch and pass right out.
(I remembered this Far Side strip immediately, Heebie.)
62: The second comment was about his anxiety dream about the first comment. It was supposed to go in the other thread.
Maybe it happened twice.
Nope, the fact that it happened the first time very definitely precluded it ever happening again, at least with that particular girl.
64 is weird because the natural reaction to seeing someone lying on the floor is not "she's been killed!" but "she's fainted". And, after the first time, you'd think they'd remember that you just kind of like to sleep on the floor. Unless you sleep in a particularly dead-looking way (eyes open, blue waxy complexion, large steak knife protruding from chest).
It's an unfortunate consequence of the "dress like a murder victim" fashion craze of '09.
Sleeping in front of other people is something that some people can do, but I always found it slightly odd. Not the accidental thing that AWB describes, but a friend used to have a flatmate who used to sleep in her room with the door wide-open. This was a shared student flat, and her room opened directly onto the corridor shared by another 6 or 7 people.
There was something vaguely exhibitionist about it, I think, but not in any super obvious way. Almost all of her flatmates [male and female] found it odd enough to remark on it, though.
I fell asleep in an Indian restaurant in Paris. The advice about beating jet lag by staying up until your normal bedtime is difficult in practice.
Melatonin is the stuff for beating jetlag - you take it just before you need to go to sleep, and it resets the body clock. I am a fan.
Doesn't solve the "staying up later" problem, but I always find it's easier (say you normally go to sleep at 11) to stay up till 2 than to go to bed at 8.
I second the recommendation for melatonin. It is the shiznit for jet lag. I use it when I visit my sister and usually have reset my clock within a day or so.
Somewhere I posted about the time I fell asleep standing up, and fell over, during a tour of a castle in Poland, but now I can't find it. The tour guide was just so boring and I was so jet-lagged.
57: 37! I... know that author very very well!
You do? That author was my college roommate, very dear. Huh. I thought her work would be up your alley.