Situations In Which I Can Listen to Audiobooks: 

1. While driving (or riding) in a car.
2. While eating
3. While getting ready for work in the morning
4. While suffering from insomnia
5. While editing and uploading photos

Situations In Which I Cannot Listen to Audiobooks:

1. Every imaginable situation not included above, including (but not limited to) while sitting and doing nothing, surfing the Internet, falling asleep, and reading anything.  The *doing nothing* part is the number one reason why I don't regularly listen to audiobooks.  I can't just sit there and listen.  Unlike when I'm reading a book, I feel like I should be doing something else.  I'm used to listening to music while I read, reading something while listening to an audiobook doesn't work so well.  I also usually listen to NPR while eating and getting ready in the morning, and to my iPod while driving ... so audiobooks have got stiff competition.

 

 

I know I said in the comment box over at Seen the Ocean that I had a post coming about my world view.  Well, I started working on it and then just got too tired to finish.  I've been having some recurring sleep issues lately that may have to do with the medication I take, or with  my love-hate relationship with caffeine (or probably both).  Last night, after laying awake for an hour during which I mentally composed letters to family members & imagined violent confrontations with the bitch, I gave up on sleep and decided to do something constructive.  So I got my iPod and listened to the first 2 hours of an audiobook.  Sometime after that, I finally fell asleep.  I fully intend to actually write out and send those letters.  I intend to do a lot of things. *sigh.*

Is what I would say to my crazy co-worker, if I could get away with it.  Then I would bitch slap her.

My sister, niece, and nephew are visiting for the weekend.   I knew there's flooding in Iowa, but I didn't realize how bad it is until I heard on the radio that one of the hospitals in downtown Cedar Rapids had evacuated.  It turns out that this was the hospital that my sister had been working in up until this week.  She's about to start her second year of a 2 year radiology program that includes extensive clinical experience.  So, if she hadn't been visiting Chicago, she probably would have been stacking sandbags against the hospital doors and moving patients out their rooms and into waiting ambulances.  She starts at a different hospital on Monday, where she'll probably be doing a lot of clean up for the first couple of weeks.

Fortunately, my sister, niece, nephew and parents all live on high ground, so their homes are safe.

I didn't find out that Tim Russert had died until a few minutes ago.  :(  I know a lot of people are saying he went too easy on members of the Bush administration, but I watched tons of MSNBC coverage (I was stuck in the hospital with insomnia and nothing else to do) of the 2004 election and was always impressed by him.

K-Mart is selling sweatpants with the slogan "true love waits" printed on teh butt.

Thanks go out to the Hater, I learn about way more stuff from her blog than I should probably admit.