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As the email comments are just starting to trickle in again, my eyes are drooping shut.

I've been dreaming of LJ users lately, oddly enough. May all your dreams be pleasant tonight -- maybe we'll meet in a warm, cozy place by the sea and let the crashing surf accompany our stimulating conversation.

Night, all.

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nbbmom asked the 20 questions, here are my answers:

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My response to in2oblivion's current writing challenge. It's a journal entry in and of itself.

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I am wearing a gray cotton shirt with long sleeves, though the sleeves are pushed up to my elbows. It’s a soft cotton that feels nice, kind of loose and casual, yet I can’t get it as soft as it was the first couple times through the wash. My bluejeans are Gap Easy Fit, 30x34, my favorite pair. They fit well and are just at the apex of comfort; they’ve broken in nicely, but they’re before they fray to the point embarrassment. My underwear is black jockeys, made by Jockey, the ones with the white elastic band. I’m wearing white cotton socks, which is a bit odd as most of my socks are light or dark gray, or black cotton. I think I have two pair of white cotton, but those were among the clean ones when I was packing on Sunday.

I am lying back on my hotel bed, on the right side, on top of the sheets, against one pillow upright along the headboard nailed to the textured beige wallpaper. My upper body is mostly upright, my knees are raised and this laptop I’m typing on is resting against my thighs so I can type and lie back at the same time. The laptop has the power cord stretching out to the left, and the phone cord stretching out to the right, so it’s very comfortable until I have to get up and extract myself without unplugging something. My socks are slipping slightly against the comforter on the bed so I have to occasionally reposition my feet, but overall, my posture feels very relaxed. My wallet is a little bulky in my right back pocket and, though it feels okay right now, it was bothering my right leg a bit earlier today. It’s not bulky due to money, however – it is holding all the receipts from this trip so far, so there is a lot of paper crammed into the black leather tri-fold. I am wearing a black leather banded, silver faced Fossil Steel wristwatch. It has a 12 and 6, no other numbers, a minute and hour hand but no second hand. I have two small sterling silver hoops in my right ear that have been there, unremoved, for several years. Normally I forget they’re there, but the 15 degree weather this morning (4 degree windchill) nearly froze off my earlobe on the walk from the hotel entrance to my rental red Ford Ranger pickup truck.

The hotel room is a little cold at the moment. I am still messing with the thermostat. The laptop, however, is warm against my thighs as it burns its electron fuel and immediately recharges itself. The warmth makes it difficult to get up and fiddle with the thermostat, and besides, I have all these wires from which to extract myself. The window (viewing nothing but a parking lot and another wing of the hotel) is to my right. The curtains are half-drawn as I like to wake to light in the morning. There’s a chair to the right of me holding my suitcase and laundry. There’s a table ahead of me with my wool overcoat, my cell phone (charging), and some paperwork. The TV (off) is also in front of me. To the left is some hotel art on the aforementioned textured beige wallpaper. It’s bland – a pastel print of a meadow next to a river, with an elm in the foreground. To the left is also the bathroom and the door. I can almost (but not quite) make out the Muzak playing in the hallway.

I feel my wisdom teeth. I have three; both top and one on the lower right. I’m 34 and they haven’t bothered me too much in my life, but the last few months I’ve been aware of them. I’m thinking I’ll have to do something about them fairly soon. I dislike codeine – most drugs, really – but codeine bothers me badly. I’m kinda wondering if I can do this on a minimum of Ibuprofen and a lot of sleep.

I’m a little tired from work, glad to be getting back home tomorrow. I’m feeling just ever so slightly alone with the impending Valentine’s Day, but it really is just slightly. Overall, I’m liking my life right now. I like being single. It’s not really me, I’m comfortable in long-term relationships, but it’s a good phase in my life right now, and possibly a healthy one.