lack of sleep and water

Ohmygod, another night of insomnia, and tonight was worse than last night. Despite the copious amounts of caffeine in the morning I dragged and dragged and dragged, almost fell asleep before Lost, curled up in my warm bed after with a good book, and then--couldn't fall asleep to save my life. I was awake forever, had a long phone call from J. (in which we bitched about snow, apparently Salt Lake has had some nasty weather, which is a big change for his family, who moved there from Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and needless to say they are ready to move back), finished Stealing Princes (which was funny, but not as good as Pulling Princes), watched episodes of Roseanne on Nick at Night (god, I love Roseanne, I need the DVDs), and then just lay there plotting stories. I finally got about four hours of sleep. I'm exhausted, but I know by the time I get home, I won't be. Again. It makes me want to tear out my hair, which would take a lot of work because I have a ton of long, thick, curly hair. Though it would give me something to do to keep me awake.

I just spilled water on my lap. I was already freezing, this didn't help. (True, it wasn't a lot of water, but enough.) I wonder if anyone would notice if I curled up in the auto bay and took a nap. It's warmer in there, and they have better music.

fluid sexuality and literary trends in young adult fiction

There is a very interesting discussion on fluid sexuality in fandom going on in missambs' journal. The part I found most interesting is about how though straight characters are often put into slash pairings, canon gay characters aren't often put into het pairings, which is very interesting, and though I've had that thought before (mostly while comparing the Oz/Tara/Giles and Dawn/Willow stories while writing them), I hadn't seen it discussed before. (Not that it hasn't, I think hermionesviolin even mentions in the comments there she sees that discussion a lot, I'm just very out of the loop usually.)

velvetandlace has interesting thoughts and questions about literary trends in young adult fiction and how they are blurring the lines between young adult and adult. I find this topic endlessly interesting.

I also have thoughts on fluid sexuality in young adult fiction, which I will try to put together soon.

Now I have to go lay down. My neck aches and the lack of sleep is making me ill, I can feel it. I don't even have a relaxing weekend to catch up on my rest (though I'm looking forward to it).

( to do this weekend )