the Unexpressed Advantage

It's 7:18am. It's Saturday. I am awake.

Every so often (and especially on Saturdays) I wake up pretty early and somehow my brain has gone into what I like to call "morning crack mode". In this state I'll be pretty much wide awake but still in bed. It usually starts with some dream that I'm having, and then I wake up and have to reconcile the happenings of the dream with my actual reality. Occasionally this will put me in a state of sadness or mourn (if it's a bad dream), but more often it will put me in a state of contentment and optimism.

I hate dislike waking up.

Once I heard a pastor preaching a message where he said that for as long as he knew, he had been so excited about life that he literally would hop out of bed every morning as soon as the sun came up if not before.

I thought that sounded really neat. I kind of feel the same way, except it's a little different because I'm actually so excited about more sleep and instead of hopping out of bed I stumble over to my desk and try to figure out how my alarm clock works so I can tell it to let me sleep for another 9 minutes, 30 seconds, at which point the process starts over.

from this source – AFP News

LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — South African ace batsman Jacques Kallis revealed his team's most desperate desire—to beat rivals Australia in a Test series.


South Africa are riding high after drawing with Pakistan here last week to clinch their first Test series on the subcontinent since 2000. They won the first Test by 160 runs in Karachi in the two-match series.

So Guess What?

That's right, the Suburban Refugee is back, but now he's the World Wide Refugee or something. Just like Randy Johnson at the bottom of the 8th, right when I was about to space out and stop blogging forever, SBR is back to finish the day. Whohoo. But I guess all that R.I.P. stuff and the enless tears and the shrieking and the counselling were a waste of time. Dude sure knows how to play with a guy's emotions.

Anyway, Now you don't have to be bored anymore. I'll throw up a feed for the right column as soon as I have time.

Warning Title contains slight profanities

Yep, it's 1:11 am and I'm still awake. I drank my 4th cup of coffee (half decaf) tonight at about 8:30 during the break of my Christian Counselling¹ Class, thinking I'd be able to swing it and still sleep tonight.

WRONG.

So in addition to the fact that I wasted $6 on coffee today – although $2 of that was in Nickels, I'll get to that in a minute – Now I'm up way too late and I'm going to be a total wreck at work tomorrow.