{"id":2683,"date":"2004-07-17T02:36:41","date_gmt":"2004-07-17T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/17\/okay-okay-im-awake-i-get-it\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:50:40","slug":"okay-okay-im-awake-i-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/17\/okay-okay-im-awake-i-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay, okay, I&#8217;m awake, I get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10561,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.penguinputnam.com\\\/Author\\\/AuthorFrame?0000000316&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10562,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.enkwiri.com\\\/prydain\\\/default.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10563,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.julieleung.com\\\/archives\\\/001149.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220629224848\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.julieleung.com\\\/archives\\\/001149.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:19:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:19:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Weird night last night &#8212; no matter what, I just couldn&#8217;t sleep solidly. Tossed and turned all night long, until I finally gave up trying to get back to sleep a little while ago. It&#8217;s Saturday and I&#8217;ve been up since just before 8am. Ah, well &#8212; hopefully a nap later in the day will happen, and I&#8217;ll knock myself back onto my usual schedule before too long.<\/p>\n<p>I do remember having a long, very involved dream revolving around discovering that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinputnam.com\/Author\/AuthorFrame?0000000316\" title=\"Penguin Group (USA) Authors: Lloyd Alexander\">Lloyd Alexander<\/a> had written a series of companion novels to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enkwiri.com\/prydain\/default.asp\" title=\"The Prydain Guide\">Prydain Chronicles<\/a>: two collections of short stories, and a full trilogy of three almost Harry Potter-length novels set about sixteen years or so after the end of the Prydain Chronicles. I was really excited about this, found some beautiful leather-bound editions, but the bookstore I was at was missing the first book of the trilogy, so after flipping through the ones that were there and admiring the maps of Prydain in the front leaf, I started going to another book store to find the first of the new books.<\/p>\n<p>Then I woke up, realized that it was all just a dream, and was <em>very<\/em> disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a couple people notice that I&#8217;ve just been reading the (real) Prydain Chronicles after seeing them pop up in the sidebar and ask about them. I&#8217;m planning on writing about them, but at the moment Prairie&#8217;s borrowing my copies, and I&#8217;m waiting to put up a full post until I have the books back in my hands to quote from. So no smackings and crackings of my poor tender head, please &#8212; I&#8217;m getting there!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also just a few CDs short of finally having every CD I own imported into my computer. It&#8217;s almost frightening how much music I have. Almost, but not quite. ;) More details on that once I&#8217;m actually done.<\/p>\n<p>And, as long as I&#8217;m up and (apparently) functioning early enough, I&#8217;ll be catching the 10:40 ferry over to Bainbridge Island for today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.julieleung.com\/archives\/001149.html\" title=\"Blogger Picnic on Bainbridge Island July 17\">blogger picnic<\/a>. Should be fun!<\/p>\n<p>And the day begins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;All I Really Need&#8221; by Machines of Loving Grace from the album <em>Rite of Shiva<\/em> (1991, 5:07).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do remember having a long, very involved dream revolving around discovering that Lloyd Alexander had written a series of companion novels to his Prydain Chronicles: two collections of short stories, and a full trilogy of three almost Harry Potter-length novels set about sixteen years or so after the end of the Prydain Chronicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2043],"tags":[13,2560],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-personal","tag-life","tag-lloyd-alexander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}