Resurface (Day 156)

Looks like I'll be playing co-op Secret of Mana as soon as we finish Titan Quest. We fired up ZSNES last night to make sure that we could get everything to work, and it seemed like it went smoothly. With the aid of Tunngle, we were able to get connected easily. I think the game will probably be ten times more fun without having to rely so heavily on the game's criminally bad AI.

I stayed up until 3 AM last night playing Titan Quest. We should be done with act 3 and hopefully act 4 by tonight, and then maybe we can knock out act 5 the night after that. It's a pretty good game, but I don't imagine I'll be giving it a second playthrough--at least not immediately. I kind of would like to experiment with a different class combination, but that can wait until another time.

As a result of staying up so late, my sleep schedule is probably going to get messed up again. I woke up at a pretty reasonable time today (around 9:30) but I'm not feeling refreshed at all. I think the only reason I woke up was because it was so cold, to be honest. the temperature is somewhat more comfortable now, but I still feel pretty weary. The coffee I had after my shower is only serving to make me feel twitchy and slightly strung out instead of awake and refreshed. That's usually a pretty good sign that I didn't get enough sleep. I guess that's true; I think I only got about five hours.

Should I take a nap, though? With the caffeine currently circulating in my system I'm not entirely sure it's possible to do so. At the same time I'm in that kind of mood where I can't really enjoy anything I'm doing. I have that kind of unsatisfied quality where your eyes and stomach sort of hurt but you're not really... actively sleepy. It's not a great feeling. I'm still not 100% sure why I woke up so early in the first place. Maybe I should have just tried to go back to sleep. Maybe my cat Wataya was being insistent on waking me up. That guy can be a real jerk sometimes.

I wanted to get up and get some things done today, but I just really don't feel well. Maybe if I successfully take a short nap I'll wake up refreshed and I'll feel like cleaning the kitchen. Anything would be better than mindlessly refreshing reddit and TweetDeck and doing nothing in particular. Drinking that coffee was a bad idea. Should have just gone back to sleep. Oh well; I suppose I'll give the nap thing a try.

I'm going to try to keep this meandering personal life posts to a minimum in the future, but it stresses me out when I don't get these done at a particular time of day--so sometimes I just write about whatever. I think these posts aren't really the majority so it's okay to have them sometimes. But man, I really need to work on getting more sleep. It's the only way to keep my brain functioning properly.