Court all night and sleep all day

[sovay]

Indeed, it is snowing. Patches of warm spring sunlight slant and brighten on our street and the snowflakes spiral through it. I don't think New England believes or cares that April Fool's Day by definition ends as soon as the second of the month begins.

1. Upper Rubber Boot Books has launched a Kickstarter to fund their two newest anthologies, Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up to No Good and Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up to No Good. The rewards are a pleasing combination of practical materials and egoboost. Please give generously! I have a story in the former and I should like to see it in print, not just an attractive mock-up in the Kickstarter video.

2. Dammit, how did I not know that Hampshire College has slime-mold-in-residence? I missed the symposium!

3. I really like these pride flag mermaids.

The last three nights, I have fallen asleep consistently before four in the morning and twice before three; it has taken me something like an hour after showering to fall asleep; I have slept at least six hours each night and once it was nine and a half. This is an unprecedented dent in nearly nineteen years of chronic insomnia. I am seriously wondering if it is the blue-light filter on my new glasses. If so, it is unlikely to be a placebo effect, since the only thing I thought they would do for me was reduce my chances of glaucoma in a decade or so. Either way, I'm trying not to jinx it. I could do without the vivid spike in nightmares, but it's sleep.

Comments

[asakiyume]

OMG! The slime mold in residence! THE ACTUAL BEST.

From the video:

"The way they pulse and send signals throughout the network seems to imply that they're making decisions. It's easy to dismiss slime-mold decision making and say 'They're just processing chemicals and then there's an output behavior,' but that's what humans are doing too."

“The plasmodium consortium is a partnership between students, staff, faculty, and visiting non-human scholars (the slime mold)”

I'm dying, it's so good. For a moment I feared it might be an April Fool's thing, but then I saw the date was May of last year. Excellent!

[asakiyume]

(y por supuesto espero que the kickstarter vaya bien)

[practicing some Spanish on your page. Google translate seems to think I got it right, but Google translate isn't the best source to ask...]

And that's excellent news on the sleep front.

[gwynnega]

Yay sleep!

Also, yay slime mold!

[redbird]

It would be Hampshire, and good for them.

[jesse_the_k]

Sleeeeeeep! How lovely.

The wonderful slime mold reminds me of the lovely Joan Slonczewski's most recent book, The Highest Frontier, which is an Ivy League college with interesting scholarship kids inside an L5 structure. It's because of [spoiler] that the Hampshire residency might be a starting point for Frontera College.

http://highestfrontier.com

[nineweaving]

In favor of both slime-mold-in-residence and ravelled-sleave-knitting.

Nine

[rydra_wong]

YAY SLEEP. If it is the blue-light filter, I will geek out about blue light and sleep and other things that might help at the drop of a hat.

[ladymondegreen]

I hope that this is a real sleep miracle.

[kore]

Hunh, those glasses sound interesting. I have no-glare coating on my lenses, but they're the cheapo Zenni kind so it wears off. :-/