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Tuesday, August 19, 2003

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Music: None, kids are watching a movie

Mood: A wee bit blah



I have been stuck at -11 pounds for four days now. This is frustrating. And by and large, I've been behaving so well! Maybe I'm bloating, or something.



My neck is still stiff and sore from last night's swimming incident. It hurts to turn my head (which makes driving fun) or to look up or down. In the night it was absolutely excruciating any time I moved so I did not sleep well. T was so kind to me this morning, bringing me aspirin and milk while I writhed in pain, trying not to move too much.


It didn't help that an old hotel about a mile from our house burned down last night. It's been abandoned for years. It was this old wooden building with a few cabins around it; it hadn't been anything but a target for vandals for quite some time. So in the middle of the night we were awakened three separate times by sirens roaring by, and then the smoke was so heavy that our eyes were burning -- or course, it being summer, any window that's not reachable from the ground is open at night. By the time I got up this morning the smoke was cleared away, except that along the floors in the house you can still smell it (which is kind of weird). So between the sirens, the smoke, my neck, and the fact that I was tired from swimming to begin with last night (I was literally almost falling asleep standing up while I helped T collimate his telescope), I got out of bed this morning feeling like I'd had negative hours of sleep. I am having fantasies about the kids going to sleep so that I can too. Not happening, however. sigh.

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