Things That Keep Me up at Night

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A Short Kind of Long List, Specific to Tonight:

Not being able to breathe
Sinus headache / fuzziness
Unfinished conference presentation (getting there, though!)
Nearly complete ignorance of a few things for the last week. Longer for some. In every realm of my life (personal, academic, professional) (to quote a colleague, “It’s okay! No one’s dying!”).
Georgia State’s e-reserves and their legality called into question
Fair Use. Copyright. Contracts. Faculty needs. Budgets. Being only one person.
Hemineglect (so bizarre!)
A collection of Grace Paley stories called Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Not knowing how to return a phone call to someone’s British cell phone from my office phone, feeling like I’m blowing her off (and her name is so cool! It would be such a shame!)
Pondering the difficulty of setting meeting times for four people
Googling my #1 high school crush to find out that a.) he is a pastor, and b.) his head seems to have grown, while his eyes have not, resulting in awkward beadiness
Realizing I haven’t seen him in about a decade
Realizing I’m much, much closer to 30 than 20
Feeling like a bit of a disappointment.
Generalized fretting
The BNSF trains and their insistence on blowing their horns all. the. way. through. town. (I know, it’s for the greater good).
Disappointment in the drowsiness effects of TheraFlu (or lack thereof)
Ooh — chatting with a long lost friend on the other side of the world (where it’s a reasonable hour!)

Notable things not keeping me up:

Flowers today from mom and dad! At work! With little pussy willow branches! Yes!
Spring is lovely and volatile
Rainy days ahead

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