you know you are tired when...

1. You find yourself staring at your hand. Has it always looked like that?

2. A song is stuck in your head, but the words are all confused, and you find yourself humming it slightly, at double time, and there are red crazy colors to match it parading across your brain.

3. You start giggling because you are so tired. The giggling turns into a fit of hysterical laughter that soon degenerates to gasping in pain while your roommate stares at you. This is usually a good time to stop studying and go to sleep, because you are not going to get ANYTHING done.

4. Very random snippets of dialogue and plot start going through your brain. If you are not careful, you will probably become convinced that Star Wars is the story of how a young punk teenager learned karate from a Jedi trainer who turned out to be his evil twin and that I had to stop him from catching all of the Pokemon and then went to space to fight the aliens and attend an intergalactic dance party on the death star. My brain has never actually come up with anything this spastically awesome, but I bet it could if I went without sleep for long enough and had many many coffees it could happen.

5. You become increasingly paranoid. There must be some psychopath somewhere in the room. Maybe he is in the closet. Maybe if you hide under the covers he will not ax murder you, or he will at least do it quickly...

6. You go on the Internet. You keep scrolling through failblog.org and related sites. You are kinda zoned out, so you do not register what is going on. But, you get this terrific idea. You should write a post! You clearly have something awesome to say to the world.

7. You write this post.

ModernHelen

ps. : Alex, I know that I told you I would give you a shout-out for something, but I forgot what it was, so I am giving you a shout-out about how I am SO tired that I have forgotten about shout-outs.

pps: The spell check reminded me that pokemon is capitalized to Pokemon (awesome). Also, spastically is apparently not a word, but spastic ally is. I would like a spastic ally...