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BeanBoozled

Yeah, I haven’t blogged in quite a while! I don’t have much of a life at the moment. What with leaving all my work until the last minute, my busy weeks, and the fact that all I want to do is sleep, I haven’t been around as much as usual. However! My busy weeks at work are subsiding, and I finish exams and assessments early next week, so all will be right in the world very soon. Now, onto tonight’s entry!

BeanBoozled packet

That right there? That’s a packet of BeanBoozled jelly beans. When a co-worker brought them into work, I thought they seemed very cool. Not as cool as Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans would be, of course (although Wikipedia tells me that Jelly Belly have their own product with the same name), but they work like this:

  • Purple can be plum or black pepper
  • Green can be juicy pear or booger
  • Yellow can be popcorn or mouldy cheese
  • Orange can be peach or vomit

Et cetera. Sounds pretty fun, right? Well, I thought so at first. I often got the “bad” flavours, but they usually at least semi-palatable. Pepper is fine, and booger tasted like grass in lolly form, but then I got a rotten egg flavoured bean. Which made me dry retch. I was this close to vomiting at work. And then I dared try another yellow bean, and almost threw up again.

They seem cool at first, but I’m scared of them now, and I’ll never look at jelly beans the same way again. When did eating jelly beans become a game of Russian roulette?

Home Surgery

You know those massive pimples that you get under your skin? The ones that are too deep under the surface to squeeze, and hurt a lot when you try? I had one of those this morning; it was like there was a pea under the skin of my chin.

So anyway, armed with a bottle of Dettol and a very sharp pin, I set out to burst that motherfucker into oblivion. Twenty minutes, a sink full of blood, and a bit of pain later, I managed to get some puss out, but somehow I couldn’t burst the pimple, irrespective of the fact that I poked the pin all the way through. Multiple times. I love popping pimples, so I thought it would be a goldmine..!

In hindsight, it probably wasn’t the best idea, but I was going out to a ~social gathering~ and didn’t really need it to be visible, although I’ve realised that if I don’t mention stuff, then people don’t notice it anyway.

Focus question: Have you ever attempted “home surgery”?

Sleep

I’m still a bit scarce on the ‘net at the moment. I did manage to get through a backlog of assignments and do a decent job on them (maybe) last week, though, and now have nothing due for a little while. So huzzah to that, I suppose. Now I just have to survive for a few more weeks, after which the semester will be over.

Anyway, today’s topic is sleep. I’ve had a problem (although it’s so so much a problem as a feature) recently, in that I’m constantly tired and always want to sleep (or even just lay in bed). Not to hypersomnia levels or anything, but definitely to the point where it’s getting annoying.

I mentioned in a recent blog entry that I don’t understand how some people can stay up all night and get but a few hours sleep. For the past few weeks, I’ve been sleeping for about nine hours each night (and staying in bed for a lot longer). Usually I’d wake up after eight hours, and ideally I’d only need seven or eight per night, but at the moment I’ll be yawning and sleepy all day unless I get the full nine. I don’t know why I’m constantly tired and constantly lying in bed during the middle of the day. Also it’s probably not a Good Thing that the most exciting part of my day is going to bed, and the worst is waking up.

Further, it’s made me rather unproductive. My attitude towards schoolwork always ends up being “Screw it, I’m going to bed and shall deal with the consequences later.”

Oh look, I just wrote an entry whinging about how I “only” get nine hours sleep a night. Obvious non-problem is obvious.