{"id":3,"date":"2006-08-09T02:30:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T02:30:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-08-09T02:33:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T02:33:47","slug":"to_sleep_perchance_to_dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/2006\/08\/09\/to_sleep_perchance_to_dream\/","title":{"rendered":"To Sleep, Perchance to Dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yawn&#8230;yes, I&#8217;m still awake, have been for the last 2 hours since I stopped reading my book.  (sigh).  <\/p>\n<p>So tired, it&#8217;s only Tuesday and it feels like it should be, at least, Thursday!  Suzanne is re-skinning our website, at work, so I spent all day today (hang-on&#8230;yesterday) link-checking.  It was okay, just sometimes it&#8217;s frustrating when you can&#8217;t detect where sites have moved to.  Hoping the rest of week won&#8217;t be too busy, so far the only &#8216;appointment&#8217; I must keep this week is a &#8220;Fire Training&#8221; course, which basically means  that <i>I get to spray some fire extinguishers about<\/i>.  You used to have to only do this &#8216;once in a blue moon&#8217;, but new regulations say that everyone has to do a refresher course each year&#8230;cos just reading the instructions on a fire extinguisher obviously isn&#8217;t enough anymore! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s happened since my last post?  Err&#8230;study, mostly &#8211; over the weekend.  2000 words on &#8216;Roman North Africa&#8217; which was fun&#8230;not.  Saw Russ on Saturday night for dinner &#8211; &#8220;pizza-style chicken&#8221;, very nice it was too (if I do say so myself).  AND I made him watch the &#8220;SmileTime&#8221; episode of Angel (because everyone should watch it!:P) mainly because he wanted to know why I&#8217;d bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=4_58_1153&amp;products_id=26731\" title=\"angel\">this<\/a> &#8211; any Muppet fan should watch this episode of Angel &#8211; even if you never watch another.  <\/p>\n<p>One positive (probably the only one) aspect about being awake at this time is that I get to iChat with my friends in other time zones &#8211; which is pretty cool and better than asynchronous forms of communication..oo..I see one from Oz has just emailed!  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of friends, I gained a new &#8216;myspace&#8217; friend recently &#8211; Mr Rob Schneider &#8211; who just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywood.com\/news\/detail\/id\/3539620\" title=\"Rob\">spoke out<\/a> about the Mel Gibson <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/5230480.stm\" title=\"MelG\">incident<\/a> last week.  Now, I know people can be different when they&#8217;re drunk &#8211; be it morose, cantankerous, whatever &#8211; and I like Mel Gibson, a lot, but I&#8217;m sorry; his outburst <em>had<\/em> to have come from somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling good now that I only have one more assignment then an exam to go on my studies &#8211; and I feel even better knowing that I have a week off this month&#8230;perfect time to catch up with my sleep..can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n<p>Whilst online, I should also mention that my friends, <b>Graham and Dawn<\/b>, are getting married on Friday &#8211; congratulations, love and best wishes for your future together!!!! &#8211; I&#8217;m looking forward to the party! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Err.. what else is on my mind at the minute &#8211; oh yes, the distinct lack of the cute doctor (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/drama\/holbycity\/characters\/profiles\/index.shtml?content\/_joseph\/page1\" title=\"Joseph\">Joseph<\/a>) on Holby City tonight &#8211; sniff \ud83d\ude41 &#8211; that&#8217;s disappointed me all night, was still a good episode though.  <\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess that&#8217;s enough waffle for now, going to try to get some sleep (again)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are such stuff<br \/>\nAs dreams are made on and our little life<br \/>\nIs rounded with a sleep&#8230;&#8221;    <\/p>\n<p>(Shakespeare&#8217;s <i>The Tempest<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>night, night<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yawn&#8230;yes, I&#8217;m still awake, have been for the last 2 hours since I stopped reading my book. (sigh). So tired, it&#8217;s only Tuesday and it feels like it should be, at least, Thursday! Suzanne is re-skinning our website, at work, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/2006\/08\/09\/to_sleep_perchance_to_dream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-late-at-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}