Cream-Crackered
(Yawn...)
After a shortened 'long' weekend (shortened as in it was just like a normal, non-holiday weekend) last weekend, and a pretty busy week last week (busy as in there were four different shows in, we are short-staffed, and the biggest show this year getting in yesterday), I was working all weekend, Friday until late, and all day Saturday and yesterday, and now I'm going to be working every evening this week. I'm stifling multiple yawns and fighting my body's inner urges ('faaaall asleeep Matthew... Just lie down and shut your eyes... it will feel SOOOO gooood... mmmm... zzzz...'), but I am safe in the knowledge that on Wednesday I have one serious motherfucker of a lie-in coming to me. Unfortunately, I just read on Wikipedia that "you cannot 'store' sleep by sleeping more on the weekends in preparation for the normal work week", so therefore, but that reasoning, there's no point in having a lie-in. But I don't care, I'm going to have one anyway, because it doesn't say you shouldn't have a lie-in. I usually require at least seven hours sleep in order to function properly the following day, I haven't had seven hours sleep since about, ooh... March?
Incedentally, has anyone ever heard of someone falling asleep on top of a ladder like this one? No? Okay, maybe it didn't actually happen then. It was probably a dream.
UPDATE (in answer to comments): Yes, I did manage to sleep in to a respectable 10.45 (thanks ladies, for the non-ringing-or-texting!), then sat in bed reading a magazine until about 11.30. A successful lie-in I would say. Off to work in 5 minutes. Later dudes!
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Wikipedia, pah, what do they know? I would like to make it my life's work to disprove this.
Be careful Matt. You're in the theatre, can't you get a harness like they have in Peter Pan for a falling-off-ladders-whilst-asleep safety measure?
Posted by: annie | April 24, 2006 9:40 PM
I agree with the "pah" comment, I always store sleep and it seems to work for me! As in if I know I am going out and I am in work the next day I will have a power nap before I go out therefore saving sleep for the night time when I wont be getting any - still with me? I think it works and wikipedia (as good as they are for having "skanger" on it) can stick it where the sun doesnt shine!!
Posted by: Babs | April 25, 2006 8:40 AM
No, Annie, we don't use harnesses, harnesses are for pussies, yeah? No, seriously, there's actually a cage around the top of the ladder (or tallescope, as the one in the picture is called) to prevent such accidents. I do disagree with Wikipedia about the lie-ins though. Whether you need one or not, I'm having one tomorrow.
Power nap is a bit of a 'buzz' phrase too, the Spanish have been power-napping for years, but they called it a siesta centuries before the power nap was but a twinkle in the eye of a motivational speaker, so I call it a siesta too. Coz I'm all about the old-school.
Posted by: Matt | April 25, 2006 11:33 AM
I do normally call it just a nap, cause it sounds cute like you are a baby, and as you know my dear brother, I will ALWAYS be the baby in at least one sense of the word, I think that you are just jealous cause you are the middle child, and I took your place!! :) Yeah its all about the naps, I even have a lavender eye pillow (stolen:ahem) and also a eye cover thing with flowers on it from NYC, I bought it in JFK so I could sleep through my illness (sniffle) but they work, you dont have to sleep either, just totally rest, corpse pose its called in yoga terminology!! I am a smelly hippy
Posted by: Babs | April 25, 2006 1:15 PM
Your sister is v cool. Babs, get a blog!
Posted by: annie | April 25, 2006 5:38 PM
Well, I have told her she should get a blog, but I believe her answer was 'blog, schmlog' or something similar. She really should get one though. Her opinions are informed and hilarious. :-)
Posted by: Matt | April 25, 2006 5:55 PM
Gah. A powernap is not a siesta and you can't store sleep. What are you lot, battery powered?
Storing sleep indeed./
Posted by: Adrian | April 25, 2006 9:13 PM
Aw thanks Annie and Matt, maybe I will some day, I am just so feckin busy all the time, I mean, I haven't got a free weekend until the beginning of June!! This is insane for me cause I love my lazy weekends, hmm, maybe I should store some sleep!! I will start a blog some day and then you will all be glued to the screen! But see, the thing is I just type everything, as in smoke coming off the keyboard stuff, so I am afraid that it will be boring! I will though, some day!
Posted by: Babs | April 26, 2006 9:05 AM
SO? WELL? HUH? Dying to know if you managed to get or are still getting your sleep in.....or did you wake up at 8am out of habit (HATE THAT)?!?
Was going to text you to ask....but realised that would wake you :-)
Posted by: NKL | April 26, 2006 11:21 AM
I was going to call just for the laugh!! IT's good when you wake up out of habit but don't have to get up, it feels like you are pulling a sickie but you're not!!
Posted by: Babs | April 26, 2006 11:54 AM
Speaking of Babs, which sister is she. I need to put her in context to the stories.
Posted by: Adrian | April 26, 2006 1:51 PM
Sarah, aka 'Babs', would be the younger but taller of my two sisters (Becca is the older, married sister). Most of the time she drives me insane, due to her lightspeed thinking processes and postmodernist 'jive'-type lingo (she talks exactly the way she types, incedently).
She's way cooler than me too, which pisses me off no end.
Posted by: Matt | April 26, 2006 2:14 PM
Hell yeah!! hahaha!! Adrian - I am the one who is in the pic with Matt with the Eskimo Joe jackets on. Matt I like it - "postmodernist jive type lingo". There is a line in a song that I like to use when people slag me for speaking too fast "you say I talk too fast but maybe if you listened a little quicker, I wouldn't have to slow down for you to catch up (bitch)" I usually omit the bitch part!! And Matt I use a line which you said when people say I am hyper "you are not hyper, your brain just works faster than other peoples" I love it, young at heart forever!
Posted by: Babs | April 26, 2006 3:20 PM
Since Matt is shoddy with his tagging (no flickr tags for sis; sister; eskimo; joe or babs) I can't find the picture. I gave up after 5 pages though, so maybe I'm lazy.
Anyway, MattNikki are undr some sort of paranoid illusion that I'm going to kidnap you from Dublin and enslave you, so they are attempting to ensure we are never in the same near geographic location.
Posted by: Adrian | April 26, 2006 6:28 PM
Ahem. Fixed. Try looking under 'Family', 'Funny' or 'Eskimo'.
No, myself and Nikki are under the illusion that you will like Sarah a LOT, and I don't think you're good enough for her. But then I don't think anyone is good enough for her. You're bound to meet eventually though. And you better be on your best behaviour, Mr. Sevitz.
Posted by: Matt | April 26, 2006 7:20 PM
Right, found it. One of you looks Funny, the other like an Eskimo. No mistaking the two you look related.
I just think you and Nikki don't want me related to you guys. Which is remarkably protectionay since I'm geographically safe. Anyway who is to say Sister Sarah would like me a lot, or at all. Nikki already tried to ward me off with "She talks to fast for you". :-)
You guys are so full of the love for me. :)
I haven't kidnapped anyone for years. I don't know what you are worried about.
Posted by: Adrian | April 26, 2006 9:40 PM
Err... which one of us doesn't look funny?! And we're definitely related all right. All Verso's look a bit similar.
You're geographically safe, for now. Sarah would like you a bit, I think. And she talks to fast for everybody. Unless you're like, on amphetamines or something.
Dude, mistake no mistake, we love you to bits, but that doesn't mean I trust you with my sister. :-)
Posted by: Matt | April 26, 2006 9:50 PM
Ahem!! Is this an online dating service?? Or what? hee-hee! Matt you are insane, Nikki - I do NOT talk too fast for anyone, you are SO mean, but I will let you away with it this time! Adrian - I look like my Mammy, Matt looks like Dad, I don't see the resemblance at all, although apparently we have the same nose so maybe thats it!
Posted by: Babs | April 27, 2006 10:45 AM
Well maybe I should phrase it as "He thinks too slowly for you" instead?! :-)
Posted by: NKL | April 27, 2006 12:48 PM
Well if it's an online dating service it's pretty rubbish. I mean most online dating services don't threaten you if you get a date ...
In that picture, there was mostly noses anyway. Although you have the same bone structure.
And Nikki is really mean. You should have heard what she really said. :)
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 12:54 PM
I hereby retire as protector of Matthews sister.
Adrian...go forth and conquer.........
Posted by: NKL | April 27, 2006 1:02 PM
And you told me you were protecting me. You said the Verso's were all mean. You said if it wasn't that Matt was so good in bed you would have dumped him ages ago ...
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 1:04 PM
Ew please don't talk about my brother like that! Nikki I am well able to protect myself, you know how strong I am after all of the heavy lifting I did moving you out of your apartment!!
The same bone structure eh? Maybe I do look like a Verso after all! My Mam will be devastated!!
I'm sure that Adrian can train his mind to think as fast as mine!! :) It's not that hard really!
Posted by: Babs | April 27, 2006 1:11 PM
Well I'm easy to take on at the moment, broken arm and all.
My mind is as sharp, as, you know, one of those, what are they called, things you cut facial hair with ...
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 1:14 PM
I like to use the term rapier for sharp things as in "Rapier wit" its one of the only things that I remember from doing all the Shakespeare jazz in school! Wonderfullness!! (and thats not even a real word!)
Posted by: Babs | April 27, 2006 1:33 PM
Ever tried shaving with a rapier? It gets messy.
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 1:38 PM
I don't have a beard man I am a FEMALE!! No I use Gilette Venus not the pink one though, its turquiose and its groovy, no cuts, tremendous!! (on my legs that is)
Posted by: Babs | April 27, 2006 1:58 PM
I tried shaving with a 'raptor once. What a fun filled and exciting day that turned out to be.
Posted by: Tom | April 27, 2006 2:01 PM
Sounds like it! Fun fun fun!!
Posted by: Babs | April 27, 2006 2:14 PM
What the frickin' flip has been going on around here while I was otherwise occupied? Adrian- stop flirting with my little sister. Babs- you're a nutter. But I still love ya (but only because you're a blood-relative). NKL- I am very disappointed in your retirement.
Tom- Err... Were you in Jurassic Park recently then...?
Posted by: Matt | April 27, 2006 2:16 PM
Babs I never said it had to be a beard you were shaving.
Matt, shouldn't that be "I lova ya still" or "I still love ya"
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 2:24 PM
Ahem. Corrected. Ah, feck off.
Posted by: Matt | April 27, 2006 2:33 PM
Leave my brother alone!!!!! (or the puppy gets it) Match you have known me long enough to know that I am a nutteralla?
Adrians new name is Flirty Mac Flirterson.
So ha!
Posted by: Babs | April 27, 2006 2:34 PM
I like puppies. However you can toast The Puppy, I'm ok with that.
That's not a bad nickname. I've had worse. When the shorterned version of your name is the plaugue of the 12st centuary, your school nickname is after a sewage system* and your uni nickname sounds like that of a gay pirate**, you fear no names.
* Drain
** Black Betty Seabitch
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 5:21 PM
I thought you hated puppies Adrian? Of the non-bosomous variety?
Posted by: Matt | April 27, 2006 5:41 PM
Yeah I like puppies. You can toast the puppy. See, what I did there ...
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 6:01 PM
Err... no, actually? Was it big and clever?
Posted by: Matt | April 27, 2006 6:03 PM
Well it was clever. Big depends on the puppies.
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 6:14 PM
Don't hurt the puppies!! They are only babies and can't defend themselves like human people! This had turned mean!
Oh Matt BTW the dude in the garage left my bonnet open - NIP at all!!
Posted by: Babs | April 27, 2006 9:26 PM
Hey you threatened a puppy first.
And the puppies Matt and I are talking about aren't the puppies you are thinking of.
Posted by: Adrian | April 27, 2006 11:04 PM
Don't drag me down to your level Sevitz, I was talking about the cute, dog-based variety. Mostly.
Posted by: Matt | April 27, 2006 11:10 PM
Ah huh.
Posted by: Adrian | April 28, 2006 6:56 AM
I am thinking of two types of puppies though, so how do you know that I am not thinking of the same type of puppies that you are talking about?! See, I am too clever for this! I use that "or the puppy gets it" alot, I think it's out of some film or other! I don't mean that I would actually do it, it's just an empty threat!
Posted by: Babs | April 28, 2006 8:48 AM
Um, like, it's not longer a threat if you tell me it's an empty threat. ;)
So which puppies were you thinking of. Or more to the point, are you thining what I'm thinking. Probably not, I reckon since I hardly ever know what I'm thinking.
Posted by: Adrian | April 28, 2006 9:35 AM
what are you thinking? Is there an infinite amount of meanings for puppies? Who knows? you have to tell me what you are thinking so that I will know whether or not I am thinking what you are thinking, comprende?
Posted by: Babs | April 28, 2006 10:12 AM
We are clear on the puppies/norks, puppy/dog throught process right?
Any other meanings for puppies are clearly way out there and should be dismissed as strange.
Posted by: Adrian | April 28, 2006 11:10 AM
Are "norks" boobs?
Posted by: Babs | April 28, 2006 11:49 AM
Aye, yes, they are.
Posted by: Adrian | April 28, 2006 1:11 PM
Clearly you two are way out there and should be dismissed as strange.
Posted by: Matt | April 28, 2006 1:39 PM
Norks?? Norks? Where/how did you come up with that? It makes them sound horrible! Ew norks! Funny words though, I think I may adopt it and you can't do anything about it - so ha! If I am strange Matt, so are you, you just think that I am strange cause I make up my own words and use them in general conversation, you use them too at times! See how influential I am, maybe I will win a prize or something, ooo, what would I want though...as my prize!
Posted by: Babs | April 28, 2006 1:54 PM
He didn't come up with 'norks', some Aussie dude did, apparently.
Posted by: Matt | April 28, 2006 2:26 PM
Right, still a wierd word, a dude who used to live in my house used to call them "jabronies" and thats what his tag rugby team was called as well, loonies all of you!!
Posted by: Babs | April 28, 2006 3:16 PM
Hey, I got it from Dan, although he denys it. And I've seen it used in the metro so it's valid if print media use it.
Also norks beats boobies as a word. Boobies is way dang nasty.
Posted by: Adrian | April 28, 2006 3:29 PM
I didn't say boobies!! I said boobs (I think!) I have used "norks" in conversation today and no one even blinked an eye, I am amazed. See I make up names and words for things all the time so no one notices any more. Like the "parp" thing in one of the Birthday meme thing, if you let rip you must say "parp", its the rules!
Posted by: Babs | April 28, 2006 4:52 PM
I know you didn't say boobies. Boobs I can handle. Boobies not. I have friends who use boobies, so I switched to norks and boobies just freaks me out.
Am sure parp is a comic book thing. It's one of those words that sounds like the thing, I'm sure their is a word for that.
Posted by: Adrian | April 28, 2006 5:56 PM
Wikipedia, anyone? The word for something that sounds like what it means is onomatopoeia. I dunno if 'parp' is a comic book thing, for me it's more of a Babs thing. :-)
Posted by: Matt | April 28, 2006 7:25 PM
Oh, and comments are now officially closed. Feck off and IM each other if you want to continue this conversation.
Posted by: Matt | April 28, 2006 7:29 PM
Except I have admin rights and rule supreme ....
and your seesta has not my im details.
Posted by: Adrian | May 1, 2006 11:32 PM
I choose not to delete that last comment, bacause it's my blog, and yes she does. It's not like you've both never been recipients of the same email from me, I mean.
(ps why am I saying this?!)
(pps comments now really closed. This means you too Adrian. And you don't rule supreme either so :-P)
Posted by: Matt | May 1, 2006 11:44 PM