There is something wrong with my body

Hopefully it's not serious. But I went to bed last night at 7 PM and I got up today at 11 AM for lunch. And then I went back to bed. Until 4 PM. When I had to get up for tour guide training. I tried to drink a lot of coffee at dinner but I went home and started watching a movie with Jennifer Aniston in it and I couldn't summon enough strength to find something else that didn't suck. 

Bed again soon. 

gah

When you don't sleep are you always plagued by the sensation that you are acting really strange? Like, I'm not sure if I actually act strange, but I keep feeling like everyone must be saying to themselves, what's up with Alisa? She's all standoffish and weird. Her eyes are all puffy. I think she hates me. I hate her. Something like that.

I need to sleep more I think.

Very well, thanks, and you?

Things are well in Antarctica! I have started studying for the LSATs and have already been called a weenie once! This is great. I have learned to play cribbage (poorly) and am proud. Soon I will have a radio show! No one will listen to it. It will be much like this blog.

Penguins

are adorable.

Things I do

This is the story of how I accidentally took a sleeping pill at work.

So, here I am at work yesterday, as emergency dispatch. I am tired and have a sore throat. I think to myself, self, there is some aspirin and such in the drawer there, maybe there is some kind of cough drop. So I am rooting around looking for a cough drop, and find a bottle of chewable peppermint pills. This sounds good, I think to myself, chewable, perhaps soothing, I like peppermint. I have eaten a pill and am examining the bottle when two things happen at once. One, I realize that the bottle says to take these as a sleep aid, only at bedtime. Two, the phone rings with an emergency call. I then take two emergency calls at once.

I love my life sometimes.

Election day

Yesterday, a run down

I'm not really allowed to watch TV at work, so I turned it on silent and watched the map. And then Obama won and then I cried. I was crying for half an hour. And these firefighters kept stomping in and out of dispatch with their redstate unhappy and I was just crying because I could see all the people in Grant Park on CNN and they were ecstatic. People were ecstatic over this man--and it's not really about Obama, he's a symbol (what can it be like to be a symbol rather than a person?) but for so many its a symbol of something so sweet and powerful, people coming together, the United States as a citizen of the world, hands grasping of different colors.

Afterwards I sat around with a couple Obamanerds and drank vodka from a Nalgene. Because I am classy.

Time off

Antarctica: day off number two of three for the week. Here in Antarctica, everyone is supposed to work a 60 hour work week. This is because Raytheon is bitches (see: bombs). Also, they pay a lot of money to ship us to this continent and feed us and all. Also, I am pretty sure they want us to be working at much as possible so that we won't drink ourselves to death.

However, among everyone at this entire station I think that I have literally the most time off. Well, myself and the three other ladies who work dispatch in the firehouse. I have three days off per week. You are probably thinking to yourself, Sweet! Three day weekends! I could use that at my thankless 9-5! No, except I live on a base in Antarctica. There is nothing to do.

Catalog of a day off in Antarctica
1. Breakfast. This can take half an hour if you drink tea.
2. Wander around some buildings
3. Sit in smoker's lounge with grizzled 60 year old mechanics. Chain smoke and watch Fox News.
4. Laundry. If you are lucky this can take half an hour too.
5. Wish I had some scissors so I could cut up some construction paper.
6. Buy a bottle of wine
7. Lunch. Today I spent two hours at lunch.
8. Wander around some buildings
9. Teach myself the guitar. I have learned all the major chords. Soon I can play California Dreaming.
10. Read
11. Fall asleep reading
12. Wake up and read
13. Yoga
14. Wish the bars were open on Mondays

I need to take up exercise or something. Something really time consuming. Am considering finding a mate.