November 29, 2005 23:02

I've been busy. From falling (read "diving head first") off the wagon last week, to a long couple of days at work this week, it's been a crazy past seven days. The Local was a common locale. Turkey at Tim's for Thanksgiving. Turkey sandwiches at Tim's the day after Thanksgiving. A dehydrated drive to Charlotte where the only things preventing me from falling asleep at the wheel were Trembling Blue Stars, Doves, Manic Street Preachers. It was a longer drive than normal, courtesy of the holiday travellers slowing my ride.

The past two days have been busy and I have been very tired. Last night I entered REM paralysis before my conciousness had completely slipped away - always kinda freaky as sensory neurons are firing in odd ways as dreams kick in. And speaking of dreams, I had so many I was practically exhausted when I awoke in the morning. Dreams including one semi-lucid dream, in which I was able to control much of what was going on, but not for long; another dream in which I was involved, along with a number of friends, in a heist of $100 million dollars from a hotel - extremely vivid.

Charmed is now back to the very early episodes. I didn't see any tonight, but the one I caught last night was from very early on.

My psoriasis is doing a lot better now that I'm back on the turps. I'm also on some steroidal creams, so that might also be an impact. But I must theorize that the four weeks of abstinence may have caused an increase in social stress, due to the fact that the bulk of my social interactions occur in an alcohol-laden environment; the release of that stress would, I suspect, be a good thing. Perhaps this increased stress (that I would not have admitted at the time) was the cause for the increase in new psoriatic inflammations while the existing ugliness stayed static and did not get better.

There was something else I wanted to talk about, but I don't know what it was. I am having a full weekend in Atlanta this coming weekend. Time for sleepy.

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