night thoughts

i recommend playing the video in the background while you read.  the images aren't important, i only care about the song right now :)

hello, and welcome to my brain at 3:17 a.m.  yes, mama, i know i should be in bed but i made the mistake of drinking coffee and beginning to clean and pack.  dangerous combination.  the thing is that once i start on a "project" it's very hard for me to stop.  why stop when i'm on a roll, right?  right. 

even though i'm "cleaning", my room is currently in a state of disarray, which is definitely not how i am accustomed to keeping it.  it's usually almost spotless, or at least tidy, and there's no way i'm gonna be able to sleep with the room lookin all jank so i have to continue to clean, organize, and pack until i can find a suitable stopping point.  woe is me, but we all have our burdens to bare, i suppose.

i don't mind though.  i'm usually most productive in the wee hours of the morning.  i do a lot of cleaning, organizing, folding, and working at that time.  also, here's a little tidbit of info for ya - about 80% of the blogs that i post were written pretty late the night before they were actually posted.  i also do some of my best thinking and creating late at night.  in the words of catherine o'hara:

"night time is really the best time to work.  all the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep."

wise woman.  so basically i'm just a night owl in every sense of the word.  this is fine with me except for the fact that the rest of the world runs on a very different internal clock than i do.  so either i need to change my schedule, or the rest of the world should overhaul theirs...i prefer the latter, but the former is more likely to actually happen.  i'll keep you updated on how that works out.

since we're discussing the night already, i think it's important to note that i only have 2 (well by now it's closer to 1 1/2) more nights at school until i go home.  it's a bitter sweet feeling.  nights on campus are very different from nights at home, and i like it.  being here has made me notice a few things, one is that birds don't necessarily notice the night.  i have heard birds singing and chirping away on more than one occasion in the early hours of the morning.  it's almost as if they're blind.  they don't care that the sun isn't out or that there are no people around.  they sing their song regardless.  paul mccartney knew what he was talking about.

anyway, i better get back to doing my thang.  i'm already behind schedule.  goodnight!