In My Defense I Haven’t Had A Good Night’s Sleep In Months

January 25th, 2010 by skippy

Yesterday my parents watched the kids, and my wife and I were able to finally go out at see Avatar. And let me tell say that if you like naked blue people, between this flick and Watchmen, the past year has been good for you.

Afterwords we went to a nearby bookstore to just browse, seeing as how that’s exactly the sort of thing that we haven’t been able to do in a very long time.

While we were there, my wife discovered that they have an entire section dedicated to World of Warcraft fiction. She had somehow, despite being a huge WOW fangirl, missed this phenomenon.

We were discussing these books when I mentioned that there were even Warcraft SAT prep graphic novels.

Wife: Really? How the hell does that work.

Me: They correctly use words that students will need to know, to help them improve their….umm…crap…I can’t remember the word…

Wife: Verbal portion?

Me: No….dammit….that word that means the words that you already know…

Wife: You mean vocabulary?

Me: Yes! Vocabulary!

Wife: (Stifling laughter) You mean the word that you would have remembered if you had one?

Me: Yes. Dammit. Shut up.

Wife: (Now laughing quite loudly) I suppose that the irony here is not lost on you?

Me: *sigh*. No. No it isn’t.

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Shadowydreamer Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 2:45 am

It’s cruel of her to toy with the sleep deprived brain so finely molded by the U.S. Military.

Lt Ronald Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 5:18 am

Irony is a sonofabitch.

If it helps buddy, I have 3 stories in pending status.

David B reply on April 3rd, 2014 6:56 am:

Have any of your books been published yet? I want to read them!

Jim C Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 6:19 am

Relax. Once your mind starts going its a nice pleasant ride down hill.

Ask any child, especially teenagers, being a parent greatly reduces your intelligence.

Minty reply on January 26th, 2010 10:09 am:

True, but I also remember the strange phenomenon that occurred when I turned 20–my parents went from being barely able to wipe their own asses to friggin’ geniuses. Strange.

Michael reply on January 26th, 2010 5:04 pm:

So now that my kid’s turned 20, the insolence will come to an end? Or at least come to a middle?

Minty reply on January 26th, 2010 8:18 pm:

I’d say a middle. They’ll still think they know a lot more than they do because they’re old enough to be able to look back at themselves and see how much of a dope they are (and too young to realize they may still be dopey). However, when it comes to you, it’s no longer “you don’t know anything,” and more of a “how the heck do you balance your check book, keep your credit up, and pay all your bills at the same time?” It’s like you suddenly regain magic powers.

Michael reply on January 26th, 2010 9:08 pm:

Awesome, cos I’ve been practicing the coin-behind-your-ear one…

Captcha: to rommel – but he never did anything worth drinking to.

David B reply on April 3rd, 2014 7:03 am:

I don’t have to worry about the checkbook thing! I’ve got an accountant for a mother, and a trucker for a father, so I learned numbers from an early age. I remember sitting with my mother when I was young (6-10) and helping her do taxes. I was the only kid in my personal finance class who knew how to CORRECTLY fill out a W2 and a 1020EZ. I WAS going to be an accountant and got halfway through business school, but the rails called to me.
I’ll admit that some days I wish that I hadn’t become an engineer, but all in all, I wouldn’t have it any other way. It is very rewarding, knowing you have 20000+ HP and under your control pulling 400000+ tons of steel at 60mph.
Of course, I help my coworkers fill out their taxes if they need help. I don’t charge them, and I do better than most guys who do! It is amazing what you can get done at 60MPH when rolling through the Great Plains.

Minty Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 10:10 am

Don’t feel bad. I was an English Major, and I know I’m not as ver- lo- something. I dunno. Shit.

AFP reply on February 9th, 2010 11:51 am:

Verbose? (from the DLI dropout)

Minty reply on February 9th, 2010 2:18 pm:

That’s the word I was looking for. Now if I could only remember who the Libertine was. Earl of something. . .

. . .

Rochester!

Damn, my memory is so bad.

miss kitten Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 10:14 am

you KNOW that insanity is hereditary. we get it from our children. ;)

kitten, mama to a 16 year old and a 27 year old. yeah, i had a teenager and a toddler at the same time. i’m lucky to be even SLIGHTLY sane. :D

Billy Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 10:35 am

I’m lucky, the more sleep I have, the less coherent I might be, however, the more sleep deprived I am, the more intricate my verbiage seems to become to the point where I might sound like a math professor, or something. Then I get to the point where I’m falling asleep regardless of what I’m doing, even if I’m welding. Thank you Air Force for showing me that last part!

Tyr Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 2:58 pm

I find that the words I use are influenced by what I read/watch/am-exposed-to. If I’ve been watching British comedies, you can tell from how I speak afterwards.

I never had an ordinary vocabulary to begin with anyway. I was called the little professor when I was younger, do to my obsessive gathering and displaying of information.

Captcha: Lipids well, well I think I did well on my Bio Exam.

Captain Scurvy reply on January 27th, 2010 9:50 pm:

O.o Are you my long lost twin, because that’s exactly what happens to me too. Especially after I watch TV shows, I tend to take on the personality of the main charecter. Like whenever I watch House, I’m really sarcastic for a while, or when I hang out with a friend of mine I use a lot of his mannerisms.

It was the same for me too when I was little, although while I had a large vocabulary, I tended more towards math. I actually got in trouble in first grade because my teacher wouldn’t admit there were such things as negative numbers.

Captcha: ghost confederation. Sounds like a topic for Ihmhi to write about. Voodoo Farming #12

Tyr reply on January 28th, 2010 2:49 pm:

I had a science fair project in grade 4 on the lungs. Only in grade eleven Bio did we come close to the same level of detail.

Imaginary numbers, those I keep bringing up. i^i = e^-pi/2. And other stuff like that. Non-euclidean geometry ftw.

Jenn Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 4:42 pm

I’ve always been one that the later I stay up, the less my vocabulary is – if I really push the envelope, I end up just sitting and giggling a lot, with or without alcohol helping me. Thankfully, that takes a long time, since I do have a larger-than-average storage of words in my brain.

Tyr, I also absorb what I’ve been watching and end up speaking that way for awhile!

I look forward to having children – if I’m sleep deprived, I’ll have few words to use…so, what happens if it’s really bad and I need to yell at my husband or someone else? I’m thinking no words, just screaming and pointing…hmmm…

kat reply on January 26th, 2010 5:59 pm:

Yeah, pretty much. I remember once when my daughter was about a month old and she was crying for about an hour and I didn’t know what was wrong with her (turned out to be her very first ear infection). Anyway, my husband woke up at about one in the morning to find me and the baby in the living room, I was sitting in the rocking chair with her, and we were both crying. He says that the look I gave him was the most desperate look he’s ever seen on my face. I just handed him the baby and stumbled to bed.

Captcha: paroxysm skeptical – you know, I have sometimes been a little skeptical of those…

braveheart Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 1:47 am

Irony is a bit like gravity. A heartless bitch that hits below the belt when you don’t pay adequate attention.