trying...to stay...awake

It's just about 9 pm again and I am trying desperately to keep my eyes open. I forced myself to keep going back to sleep from midnight to just about 6 am, but I am getting to the point from which there is no return. Except back to bed.

Last night I had many dreams, most of which were very lightly overlaying my awareness that I was consciously not sleepy while yet still sleeping. I had a tough time convincing myself to stay in bed from 3 to 4 am when there was a very loud dog outside roaming around the neighbourhood. We don't have too many noisy dogs here - interesting, because there is a high density of dogs living in Golf Links, both in homes and on the street - but last night was a real doozy. I was drifting in an out of snoozes and started counting how many barks the dog would make. His favourite was a sequence of seven: bark bark bark bark bark bark bark! The final bark would hit a higher pitch than the rest. Sometimes he'd get up to eight or nine in a row, and occasionally he'd settle for just one or two in the sequence, but there was barely a breath between each set. I started thinking about the number of barks, and then about school, then the barks, then my drama class, and I came up with a great idea (oh so very great I'm surprised it hasn't been patented yet) that partnered up with one of my trademark horrible semi-puns:

I could use this experience to teach the text of Romeo and Juliet this semester using (get this!) iambark pantametre! I tell you, there are times I kill myself laughing at my own terrific jokes. I even worked up into a full-on ten syllable phrase: barkity barkity barkity bark!

Otherwise, an uneventful day. Chilly and cool, but sunny. Phet made us all egg sandwiches for breakfast, and then I tidied up and later on Iaimon came over and I headed out to school to deal with the yearbook stuff. Got home at 2:30 and have stayed awake since then through a combination of ingesting caffeinated beverages and cleaning out our messy filing cupboards. Woot woot! Oh, good news on the luggage front: apparently our missing bag has been found and it is en route back to us. Let's hope it gets here in one piece.

[Delhi-9-January-2010]