[Insert Zombie Noises Here]

[greygirlbeast]

So, last night Mister Insomnia, he makes a house call. Which really didn't surprise me, as he'd made a house call the night before. But, last night, I resolve to kill the sorry motherfucker. I triple the usual dosage of the Good-Worker-Bee Pill. Ol' Mister Insomnia, he just laughed. I didn't even feel the pills. Sometime after dawn, Mister Insomnia grew bored, tossed me aside the way King Kong tosses aside all those blondes who aren't Naomi Watts, and he went off to torture someone else. Some day-sleeper, I suppose. And finally the pills kicked in, and I slept the sleep of the wicked and dead until Spooky woke me about noon. I needed help to walk to the kitchen table, pretty much. Now, I'm sitting up straight, but the pills are still going strong. I might be conscious and cognizant by three p.m. This is sort of like waking with a really bad hangover, and you lie still – hurting and ill – aware that you're about to puke, but unable to remember why. Then you do remember why, and you realize that at least you feel this shitty because there was fun beforehand. This is like that. Only I finally realized there was no fun beforehand.

Okay. Stop talking about that. It's not going to help.

Yesterday, I wrote 1,109 words on a new vignette, "Figurehead," for Sirenia Digest #67. The plan was to finish it today and tomorrow. Only, today I'm...this. So, instead, I might hope I can at least get through the line edits for "Fake Plastic Trees" (which sold to Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's After, in case I forgot to mention that).

Last night, we watched the saddest car wreck of a werewolf film. Scottish werewolves. I used to think Dog Soldiers would always be the worst Scottish werewolf film of all time. Au contraire, mon frère...au contraire. Because last night we watched Craig Strachan's Wild Country (2005), in which five Scottish teenagers – who, I swear to gods, had accents so heavy we needed fucking subtitles – are pursued through the Highlands by people in bear suits. Badly sewn bear suits. So, don't watch this movie, okay? Don't cause my suffering to have been in vain.

Oh, look. An eye booger.

Clearly, I should not be blogging at this particular moment.

P.S. – The moral of our story: Do not try to poison Insomnia, because he will fuck you up.

Comments

Re: Why get up?

[rexallen.livejournal.com]

Sleep when you're sleepy, wake when you're wakey! Insomniacs of the world, unite! Throw off the chains that bind you to the 24 hour diurnal cycle - a better world awaits. 8am meetings are the opium of the masses...

Re: Why get up?

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

It's simply not an option for me, as I have explained.

Re: Why get up?

[rexallen.livejournal.com]

Let's just hope that after the revolution things are better for the sleep-different...

Re: Why get up?

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

What is this revolution you speak of?

Re: Why get up?

[rexallen.livejournal.com]

I've already said too much. Ixnay on the evolutionray alktay...

The eagle flies at midnight.

(due to insomnia)

(which, incidentally, Karl Marx also had problems with)

(that is all)

Re: Why get up?

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

The eagle flies at midnight.

That's how one knows the owls are not as they seem.

Re: Why get up?

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Okay. I'm lost.

Explained!

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I answered what sounded like code with more code. Plus it's the Twin Peaks reference. I watched the hell out of it when it was on, back when I was in high school. (A friend of mine got to watch it when it aired, and she was nine. One of my kinkier friends, surprised I'm not...)

Re: Explained!

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, I've seen virtually none of Twin Peaks.