Bleah.

Its another one of those nights where the plan was to already be asleep by now, but there are too many distracting thoughts racing through my head -- typical midlife crisis sorts of thoughts. Where am I going? What do I want from life? What should I do now?

Not exactly conducive to sleep, so I'm sitting up and reading LJ and surfing the web until my brain gives up and shuts down.

Dang this feels early.

I'm not up really early, as I only set the alarm for 8:00 am. Tomorrow I'll be getting up at 5:00 am and that IS really early. Still, I've been sleeping in until noon or 1:00 pm for the last week (ever since the power failure and its concommitant sleepless night), so this is a bit of a change.

I'll either wake up and get lots done because of the extra time in the morning, or I'll be a zombie all day and get nothing accomplished. I suppose we'll find out in a few hours. Its impossible to tell right now. My body always lies about its state when first I wake up.

New Word for the day.

Today's new word is "epicaricacy" which is the English equivalent to the (much more common) German "Schadenfreude". Both terms refer to taking pleasure in another's misfortune.