December 3, 2004 12:15 pm

It’s amazing what you can do when your back is against the wall. My coding skillz are so 1337. My affine gap penalty global alignment brings all the girls to the yard. Damn right its better than yours. I can teach you but I have to charge. It’s fast and lean and mean. Explosion overpowering, over the competition I’m towering. Don’t you dare compare me to the rest that’ll all get sliced and diced. Competition’s paying the price. Watch out motherfuckers cause I’m dangerous. I’m starting to think I may actually survive this term.

I have insomnia tonight. An old problem that hasn’t visited for a few weeks. It’s a topic I’ve researched a little. One of the tips to get through it that works is not to lay in bed trying to fall asleep but to actually get up and do something relaxing for a while and then go back. It is a mistake to just roll around and get frustrated because that makes sleep even more difficult in coming. You can ruin a whole night in bed that way, the later it gets the more frustrated and stressed you get as sleep continues to elude.

So I am up and taking this opportunity to watch some anime!

It has been a while since I indulged. I just watched Kino’s Travels episode eight, it is a series with a total of thirteen episodes. Very beautiful. Not just the animation quality but plot wise too. Most episodes are self-contained stories about a traveler visiting a new country and interacting with the people and their unique customs. It has a post apocalyptic feel where all the nations are self contained entities knowing nothing of what is outside their borders so they are all at different stages of technological achievement. It is very colourful and usually upbeat but has some darker themes too. (slave traders with a secret in episode two.) The episode I just watched was about a girl who dreamed of flying. Inspirational. I think I’m sleepy enough now. Goodnight. 

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  1. I’ll have to keep that anime in mind if I ever get a chance to watch any.  This town is so limited! >.<  I’m a slow sleeper myself – meaning it takes about two hours for me to actually fall asleep.  My mind just keeps going and going and going and going…. You mentioned Boston in a comment before. Are you going to do grad work down there??

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  2. I’m not huge into animae (having a vagina and all), but J made me watch Cowboy Bebop (the whole series – we rented it from NetFlix) and I LOVED it (it’s so much better subtitled than dubbed!). I still haven’t seen the movie, though.. It’s almost like I’m saving it. We watched quite a few episodes of Trigun, too – the main character was very (almost too) similar to Spike from CB. I’ve also seen the standard movies – Ghost in the Shell, Akira, a couple others I can’t remember offhand…

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  3. I use to have insomnia. I took about 3 ambian (not the same night) and fixed my sleeping pattern. I’d be sleepy in the afternoon and not at night. That was my problem. I’ve heard the same thing too about getting up and doing something; not just waiting for the oblivion.

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