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In which I got much less sleep last night than I wanted:

Okay, so I had already stayed up later than usual starting my catch-up on Doctor Who. (I tend to wait till I have four or five eps and then watch them in chunks, rather than one a week.)

Then my dog decided to wake me up at 2 o'clock. And 3 o'clock.

Then, about 4, I woke myself up after having a dream about some sort of evil carnivorous bug-thing that wanted to eat me. At which point, I heard a sort of rustly noise that in retrospect was more than likely the dog again, but at the time sounded a great deal like the scuttling of an evil man-eating 12-legged mole cricket-looking thing the size of my head. So I had to get up and put my audiobook back on. Otherwise, I'd have lain there, waiting for it to pounce.

And then the dog woke me up again at 5.

And my alarm went off (as usual) at 10 till 7.

Whee...

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Today for Mother's Day, la familia went into Seattle so my mom could go to art supply stores and bookstores and the Market and anywhere else her heart desired. It was pretty much totally fun, though the Market was stupid crowded. Art supply stores are much like office supply stores in that I am apparently incapable of entering them without buying something. Usually pens or notebooks. I do not need more pens or notebooks but I covet them all. Today, I bought a lovely hardbound sketchbook that I will likely use for journaling and four different colors of gel pen.

Also, at Eliot Bay Books, I bought Monsters by David Gilmore because they had no books on horror films and I have felt a definite urge to read some horror-based scholarship lately. It happens periodically, and there are only so many times that I can reread The Monster Show. Now I have read the first chapter and decided that I kinda want to read through the book's entire bibliography. Alas, the library probably doesn't want to ILL all of them. Maybe just No Go the Bogeyman? I have wanted to read that for years.

Also, we walked a lot and went to many other shops and then came home and had delicious salmon and gave Mom presents.

And that has been my day.