Distracted by Air

Archive for February, 2008

nathan learns to zing

February 27, 2008 1:34 pm

“Wow, did you take an extra bitch pill this morning?”

—Nathan to me after I said something that was, indeed, very bitch-like.

I’m so proud of him.

nathan took today off

1:27 pm

we’ve already had this conversation:

Me, on hearing nathan shuffling around in the kitchen. “What are you doing?”

Nathan, as I distinctly hear a page-turning shuffle. “Um… just looking around.”

“At?”

“This gaming magazine.”

“Oh? The one I got yesterday? Because I am also a gamer, you have a gamer wife and are blessed among men?”

He says, “Wow, you really are full of yourself today, aren’t you?”

My reply, “I’m just trying to see what it’s like to be you.”

nathan quote

February 17, 2008 9:18 pm

“Fuck this, I’m going to find a speedboat.”

—Nathan, while playing Crysis

a random realization and a question

February 16, 2008 2:32 am

Random Realization: if a person is deaf from birth, they will never get a song stuck in their head.

If you were to go deaf, and you were given the change of listening to one last song before doing do, what song would you choose?

the need for sleep

February 6, 2008 1:07 pm

Toxicology report came out on Heath Ledger. According to CNN’s sources, Heath died of an accidental drug overdose. He took the prescribed amount of Percocet, Vicodin, Valium, Restoril, Xanax, and doxylamine (another sleep aid, one of the primary ingredients of NyQuil).

“Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night,” Ledger told The New York Times in November. “I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.”

Some people are still saying it was a successful suicide attempt. But based on Heath’s statements, it really seems like the poor guy just wanted to sleep. That’s it, just get some actual sleep. Not, like, eternal sleep. Just sleep. For people who haven’t suffered the effects of chronic insomnia, or bouts of acute insomnia, I think they underestimate the human need for sleep.