stupid body functions

I just napped two hours but I've got a souring feeling at the pit of me.

I cut out of work a bit early and skipped a lecture I was going to see, veering instead to bed to try and cut through the fog. It's going to be a big weekend, whatwith Melvin & other coming-to-towners for the Case alumni swimmeet my housemates have planned.

On the way home I swung by the Home Depot & picked up another hanging plant and a pen-length fluorescent fixture I'll wall-stick over my pillow to eat battery and spit out reading light. More things to add a smiling touch, but seat me further in this place and life.

A kid outside the window is shouting I'm a zombie! and the Ravel CD in my computer skips again and causes the hard drive to noisily spin back up. My room is dark and if I look sidelong at the mirror, my face is a half moon from the laptop screen's light.

My stomach burns for something, but I ate a whole package of rice cakes for lunch, and I'll wait until I get a short run in tonight before feeding it again.