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whiskyinmind
29 March 2004 @ 09:16 am
Tell me why...  
...I don't like Mondays....

*grin*

Okay, so I forgot all about the clocks going forward until about 10 o'clock last night, so that was really 11 o'clock and I wasn't in the slightest bit sleepy. I'm working on a couple of fic ideas and watching "John Carpenter's: Vampires" (not as bad as a lot of people make out - but then I think James Woods is a fantastic actor so...) and my brain's going a mile a minute.

Knowing I had to get up at 5.30 am I figured I should probably hit the hay and at least try to sleep. In bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking "Hey, this random thought would work for that story!" so I put the light on, grab the notepad and write about 400 words or so of dialogue. Leave it at a point that should be easy enough to pick up from and turn the light off again.

Ten minutes later I'm still wide awake and thinking when random thoughts ended up prompting me to again put the light on and reach for the notepad. For a totally different story...

This went on for about two hours before I finally decided sod it, got up, typed up what I'd scribbled and made some hot chocolate.

Now I'm still wide awake, sitting at my desk at work and only just realising how hungry all this late-night writing has made me! Add to that the fact that one of the servers didn't reboot at the weekend so I can only do about half of what I want right now - my email's down, my link to the web catalogue is down... not fun!

So I'm bored, tired and hungry, still having random fic related thoughts and wondering why it is I don't like Mondays...
 
 
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[identity profile] alltherealice.livejournal.com on March 29th, 2004 12:33 am (UTC)
Thats what I love about Arizona. We refuse to change our clocks. I lived in Nevada for a month, and we almost forgot to switch our clocks. It's just way to much hassle.

I'm way impressed that you actually get up to write those random plot bunnies out. I just let them hang around until they die of old age. Some people say that never happens, but trust me, if you wait long enough, it'll happen.

And I can clear up that Monday thought for you, The reason you don't like Mondays is because they suck!
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on March 29th, 2004 12:40 am (UTC)
LOL! Every year the newspapers make this big fuss about not putting the clocks back in the Autumn but every year it gets ignored and they still go ahead with the whole British Summer Time thing - which is irritating in one respect but since I'm in the north of the country I fully appreciate just how dark it does get in the middle of winter and you can't see the kids walking to school.

As for the plot bunny thing, if I hadn't written them down they'd just have been haunting me all night and today... okay so they still are, maybe it didn't work then!
[identity profile] willowmina.livejournal.com on March 29th, 2004 04:11 am (UTC)
I don't mind the clock going back in September... That equals an extra hour in bed, it's the clocks going forward in March that I disagree with, no-fair taking away an hour of my sleep.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on March 29th, 2004 04:26 am (UTC)
I still don't have a normal sleep pattern at all, most nights I can usually grab at least three hours and that seems to get me through until I crash once a month and sleep for about 12 hours straight. Not healthy I know but it's just the way my system works I guess.

I don't really notice the clocks going back to be honest, although this is actually the first time I've ever forgotten all about the change so maybe I'll notice it in the autumn!