July 7, 2014

I think my exhaustion is due to not sleeping well. The night before last, and the night before that, it took me forever to fall asleep. Last night I did better but then woke up around two o'clock in the morning and it took me forever to get back to sleep. This morning I woke up tired.

Today at work it was hot as hell. Give or take a few degrees. It was about 98 degrees outside, 87 degrees on the cool side of projection, and in the mid- to upper-90s on the warm side. The kind of stagnant heat where even sitting in front of a weak fan doesn't prevent sweating. It made for along day. When I got up to leave I got really lightheaded and that feeling has persisted throughout the night whenever I stand up. I'm not sure if that is heat related or what.

Stuff happened at work despite the heat. The motor went out for the exhaust fan on one of the projectors and we had to cancel a show. They had someone there to fix is in about an hour. Certainly can't do that for the air conditioner though. Can't have that.

I finished reading The Secret Of Zoom by Lynne Jonell. I got it at the book fair and it is for kids but I don't know if that should be a thing. It is for kids about as much as the original Grimm's Fairy Tales. There is an evil man who has enslaved a bunch of orphans so they can mine a special mineral called zoom. It is highly explosive and at least one orphan died after an explosion. It doesn't make it far enough in the story but we learn that once the orphans have outlived their usefulness they will be put into a garbage truck (which is how they are normally transported) and then they will be smashed, because as they are repeatedly told by the evil man and the guards, nobody loves them. The evil dude has also kept his uncle an the protagonist's mother trapped in a mine for years. It's pretty dark and twisted. Interesting concept though, I'll give it that.

I spent most of my time at work cross stitching. It doesn't really look like it but I made quite a bit of progress, probably more than doubling the number of stitches I did yesterday. I think it looks pretty good so far.

Tonight I pretty much just watched YouTube videos and felt tired. It's about nine o'clock right now and I think I'm going to try and go to bed. Nothing in the world sounds better than sleep right now. A bold but momentarily truthful statement.