I'm stretching you out like elastic

[sovay]

I just slept almost fifteen hours. I didn't think I was physiologically capable of sleeping fifteen hours anymore. I dreamed about grad school, my cousins, and briefly Sherlock Holmes. I assume it was catch-up not just from the marathon but from the previous week of niece-care; I'm sure it was very good for me. I'm just not sure what to do about the fact that I had plans for the day and none of them involved waking up in time for dinner.

Comments

[gwynnega]

I'm glad you were able to catch up on your sleep (and dream of Sherlock Holmes!).

[sovay]

I'm glad you were able to catch up on your sleep (and dream of Sherlock Holmes!).

Thank you! It's just a little discombobulating!

[choco_frosh]

What they said.

[sovay]

What they said.

Thank you!

Sherlock Holmes was in the middle of the grad school part of the dream, but it made sense at the time.

[yhlee]

*support support* Still, I'm glad you caught some z's!

[sovay]

Still, I'm glad you caught some z's!

Thank you! I truly didn't expect to. My body usually . . . doesn't.

[davidgillon]

BTDT, enjoy the sensation of having had enough sleep for once!

[sovay]

BTDT, enjoy the sensation of having had enough sleep for once!

Thank you!

[selkie]

That's incredible.

*offers half a chicken to go with it* Good Lord, it's possible we haven't dragged you to Nando's, only regular normal Peruvian-Salvadorean pollo a la brasa places. Well, next time.

[sovay]

That's incredible.

I would have appreciated waking up while there was still sunlight as opposed to an overcast sunset, but in fact I don't feel terrible. I am hoping it will not prevent me from sleeping at what most people consider usual hours tonight. That would be tremendously weird for me, but at this point I suspect not unhealthy.

Good Lord, it's possible we haven't dragged you to Nando's, only regular normal Peruvian-Salvadorean pollo a la brasa places.

You took me in 2019, as well as to the Pollo Rico in 2018! Man, now I want some kind of fancy chicken.

[selkie]

My one complaint is that during the pandemic, they've stopped serving the grilled livers in peri-peri glaze. I can get fairly far on a pound of chicken liver.

(Oh, good. I do like to make sure everyone has ample fancy meat when they visit. And visits will happen again and this clears the deck for The Greek Place Where You Eat for Three Days, or something.)

[sovay]

My one complaint is that during the pandemic, they've stopped serving the grilled livers in peri-peri glaze. I can get fairly far on a pound of chicken liver.

I'm so sorry. I wish I thought Mamaleh's chicken liver would ship without arriving with language skills.

(Oh, good. I do like to make sure everyone has ample fancy meat when they visit. And visits will happen again and this clears the deck for The Greek Place Where You Eat for Three Days, or something.)

What, can you order a hekatomb?

[selkie]

Basically, except instead of ox you get gyro and instead of misc fowl you get souvlaki. And then they just... send sides. There is no calculating the sides. The only thing they stint on is the olives, and it's because they're the expensive ones.

*hands you a foil-lidded sheet tray*

We're going to have to learn haruspicina via feta. The health department knocks you down a letter for entrails on the floor.

[jesse_the_k]

Words can't capture how much I miss chicken liver prepared well.

[selkie]

One can do it oneself, but I'm the only one in my household that eats it; usually fine, because we have any number of places where we used to be able to sit down and have it plopped in front of me. Sigh. To better days!

[jesse_the_k]

I'm also the lone appreciator in my house. Ah! There's a theme for the "where should we eat dinner" discussion at our next in-person con. I think it will happen!

[jesse_the_k]

Which incarnation of Sherlock danced through your dreams?

[sovay]

Which incarnation of Sherlock danced through your dreams?

None from media, actually! Dark, thin-faced, about my age. He passed through the grad school portion of the dream while on a case, impersonating a professor. Awake, I feel this plan had a high chance of resulting in Holmes teaching for at least several weeks on one of the subjects he's exhaustively qualified in (as opposed to one of the subjects he is canonically worse than ass at) before the university caught up with him and I kind of wish I'd gotten to watch that play out.

[thistleingrey]

Yay sleep.

[sovay]

Yay sleep.

Thank you!

[asakiyume]

I'm thinking of all the places you maybe wandered while in the dream plane. Very glad you got that much sleep!

[sovay]

I'm thinking of all the places you maybe wandered while in the dream plane. Very glad you got that much sleep!

Thank you! This seems to be the week my body has decided to attempt to make up for a fifteen-year sleep deficit all at once. I'm not spending a lot of time conscious, but I'm telling myself it's good for me!