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Last night’s debate, in my opinion, had an obvious winner: CNN.

Their technology is far superior to what the other networks demonstrated. Their HD broadcast had 6 analysts who were scoring the debate real-time, as well as independents in Ohio with dials who could react throughout the debate.

I love watching independents react. Last week’s debate, they reacted positively every time someone spoke. Last night, they were divided on the graph as men and women. At one point, the men went back in time and reacted very negatively. The women reacted positively as stereotypically expected — personal stories, things that would cause empathy or other strong emotions, etc.

And then the analysts! Last week, Begala was asleep for the first half hour, but totally came back and had a score close to the rest of the analysts.

Rosen and Rollins were the token extremists. Their scoring was clearly partisan, sometimes giving their candidate more points than the other analysts combined. Last night, Rosen was keeping up and was pretty even with Rollins… until about 10 o’clock. At which point, Rollins fell asleep on the plus button for Palin and gave her 10 points all at once, even though she had stopped talking. This was obviously a mistake, because soon after that, he reduced that to only a 9-point increase.

By the end of the night, Rollins definitely had the win for the most total points on his scorecard, awarding Palin 4 times as many points as other analysts and twice what he awarded Biden.

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I’m in class right now and realizing that I don’t have a stapler at home. I thought I did at one point, but I have no idea where it would be. So maybe I never had one. It seems terribly important right now. I don’t have a stapler!!

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I think it’s ridiculously unfair that I have both insomnia and narcolepsy these days. How is this even possible?

I think it started last week when I finally rid my body of the influenza virus. I’ve been having some trouble sleeping, but it was mostly like 11-12 o’clock trouble. After I spent 2 days last week completely out of it, I was wide awake after pre-Thanksgiving. I stayed up progressively later each night, until Saturday night when I was up until 7am. This didn’t turn out too badly since I woke up at 11 and had a normal day. I got drowsy around 6, but willed myself to power through it by doing laundry and fidgeting a lot. And once I made it over the hump, I thought I would go to bed around 9 or so and get back on track. But no.

Once I made it through the drowsy period, I was awake. I stayed up and watched the Patriots and the Eagles play some sub-standard football. Not like bad football, but just not up to their usual standards. By that I mean Tom Brady had a less than stellar game. They still won, but not enough for me to get a fantasy football win. *sob*

Yenny suggested it might be my new meds. Which is possible… that doesn’t explain last week, but combine that with starting back up after taking a week off, and it might explain my self-perpetuating issue now. I hope I get used to this soon. The staying awake part is good. And I’m not tired in the morning — even get up before my alarm regularly now. It’s kind of scary. But it’s a little unsettling to be up at 1-2 in the morning on a weeknight, especially when I’ve been getting up early to catch the bus lately.

I’m afraid this might affect my sanity. You know, what little of it I have left…

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S – 9
N – 10

T – 14
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J – 7
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Consensus: INTP.

The issue in the last category is that I like being organized with lists and schedules to facilitate multiple projects. I procrastinate, but will usually get things done on time in the end. It’s just not as important to me to stick to the actual schedule, just that I have a plan. The other test was more focused on the scheduling and deadlines aspect of things, so I was strongly J.

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Feeling miserable today, so called in sick to work. Pretty glad I made plans to not go anywhere this weekend. No family meals, no socializing, nothing.

Was in a 3-hour meeting yesterday where they discussed U-tubes for about half an hour. The whole time, all I could do was suppress my giggling and try to stop picturing that dog on a skateboard in the iPhone commercials.

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Ian explained to me very calmly that it was Tuesday.

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Friday — Got out of work relatively late. Big presentation at work this week and we were trying to get everything QAed and commented before the weekend. So… our dry run went 2.5 hours over with comments on pretty much every slide. But I was assured this was a good presentation. Awesome.

Got home and watched Happy Feet. Wow. The opening sequence was pretty much an animated version of March of the Penguins. Then, there was a lot of cheering and breeding. It was … different than I expected. I thought it’d be more of the cute baby penguins singing and being cute. But there was a story line that went with it and stuff.

Saturday — Got groceries, hung out with my gramma, ran errands… Went over to Ben’s for board games and booze. It was loads of fun. SPJ even came down from NY to hang out. There was boggle, clue, guitar hero II (2 player!), poker, and, of course, celebrity. Some memorable celebrities: Livvy’s mom, GOP (Which, btw, Ian and I later figured out was supposed to be God. Oops.), George Washington Carver, Claude Debussy, and Don Hyatt. Ah, friends…

Now, I’ve just started trying to remember as many of the celebrities as I can. I’m up to 33. Out of 52, I think. Must… keep… remembering…

Sunday — loafed around and slept a bunch. Went over for Gilmore Night at Ian’s parents’. The electricity went out. It was very exciting.

Monday — Slept a bunch again. Went over to hang out with gramma, Yenny, Sonny, and Anna. Sonny and Anna got me a hokie vase! It’s so cute. It’s not actually hokie, just hokie-colored. It’s under our TV now. :)

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Over the last few years or so, basically since I graduated, these have mostly lost their appeal for me. I thought Orkut was cool on the sole basis of the Google affiliation. I got a MySpace account to read other people’s blogs. I’ve never even bothered to fill in my profile.

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Anyway, I signed up for a facebook account and looked for people I knew. Within 12 hours or so, I got found by a few former classmates. And 2 weeks later, I’m, again, wondering what all the hype is. The night I signed up, I spent about an hour poking around looking for people. Then I looked again a few days later when I received my first post on my wall.

I just thought of it today, so I went to see if anything had changed. It hadn’t. I went to browse groups and on the first page, found Adderalics Anonymous – VT Chapter

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Sigh… Kids these days…

I think I’m getting old. Or maybe I’m just cranky. I just clicked on “Students Against the International Astronomical Union” and it made me laugh.

In 2006, The IAU stripped Pluto of its status as a planet. We will not stand for such an outrage.

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How do you politely say, “I’m sorry, but I need you to leave my office now. My face is burning from your stench.”

And in gossip news, my cousin is interning at *GOOGLE* this summer!! So awesome!

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So many things going on. My synopsis of February so I can have a fresh start and write about things as they happen:

2/2 – Happy Groundhog day! Ian and I met up with Crit&Teach and my sis at the Cheesecake Factory. Haven’t had a chance to catch up with them in a while, so we ventured out to use the gift card they gave us for Friendmas. Good times!

2/5 – Happy Workaversary, Ian!

2/6 – Sofa Delivery. It is fantastically comfortable, but the delivery guys scuffed the corners and started a tear at one of the seams. We are waiting for sofa parts and then the repair guy is going to come back and fix up the sofa. All very strange to me. Sofas have parts?

2/8 – Got to take a day trip up to NY for work. I went by to visit our NY office (a block away from the Empire State Building!) before heading over to Hoboken to watch some model testing. It was pretty cool, but I think the DVD they made will be better. Each test run took about 15 seconds and then they would have to wait 10-15 minutes for the water to settle. Can’t have any residual waves… that would ruin *everything*.

I had fun riding the train. I don’t think I’ve been on a train since my family moved to Louisiana. That was 20 years ago. They’re so fancy now… I sat in the quiet car on the way up and caught up on some lectures and started my homework. There were even outlets next to some of the seats. So convenient!

2/9 – Happy belated birthday, Roy!

2/13 – Went out to dinner with the girlz. We were supposed to go to the spa after work, but it was icy and snowing, so we all ended up canceling and will reschedule later. Finished up early and went over to TLD’s for custard cake. Mmm!

2/14 – Happy Valentine’s Day! I had a test on Wednesday night and this was the first time in over 4 years when I haven’t made Valentine cookies. So sad. :( I also haven’t had a cookie exchange, which is usually some time between New Year’s and Presidents Day. I might just pass this year. We’ll see how things go.

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2/18 – Happy Chinese New Year! Went out for Chinese food at the place where Squidgey and Rock claimed our mother’s doppleganger works. She wasn’t there, but the chairs they had were the same as the ones at my parents’ house. Weird.

2/19 – Returned from Omaha just in time for dinner at my parents’ house. Ian was waiting for me at the airport when we landed with a batch of snickerdoodles! Mm!

2/20 – Happy Mardi Gras!

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I went through a phase in life where I had severe insomnia. I was also suffering from depression at the time. And every now and then, when I get preoccupied by things, I will have difficulty sleeping at night, but nothing close to when I had insomnia. And… in a twist of irony, the reason I’ve been drowsy for the past 8 years is because I have narcolepsy.

I went to see a neurologist yesterday about the daytime sleep study I had done. The results indicate that I possibly have narcolepsy. They can’t say for sure without monitoring me for an extended period of time to ensure I get enough sleep at night and still have results like this during the day. But, if that’s what they’re basing this on, I would go with the narcolepsy diagnosis. I had enough sleep the night before; when they did the night time study, I slept for 7 hours through the night, and came home to take another nap before going to work.

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After reading a pamphlet when I was waiting for the doctor, I suspect I actually might. I need to do more research.

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I’m a little sad today… This is the first time in 8 years when I haven’t visited her for her birthday. We’ll make up for it though. I still need to go see her new place.

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