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Just as I was flopping into bed last night, I was struck by an idea for a short short story. I had the character, the subject, where it would end up, everything needed to hammer it out, and I was ready to do it. But, it was rather late, and I needed to get to bed, else I would risk messing up my sleep schedule and being the walking dead today. I wasn't really inclined to wander around the house wishing we weren't fresh out of canned brains, so I figured, hey, I'm fairly motivated, so I can pick it up today.

Cue sleep and dreams of being in a race/scavenger hunt involving lots of hanging on ropes and rooting through gardens and having to give a yellow-orange striped carnation to someone which seemed to be a knight-type ritual where the person was supposed to act as my lady, or something. I don't get it either.

Maybe the race tired me out, but I woke up today with little/no motivation to do this story thing. ARGH. I guess my night-owl tendencies got the better of me. Maybe I can work myself up to do it later.

My Very Educated Mother--aw, crap

Allow me to take a moment to indulge my somewhat neglected love of astronomy.

Eee, planets!

I find this whole thing to be rather fascinating. Planets are pretty spiffy, and so to decide that we have more of them is neat, even if the criteria do seem to be a little weak. Although there'll be a lot of schoolbooks obsolete. And we need a new mnemonic device.

I'm interested to know what they'll officially name Xena, though I have to admit, the fact that they named its moon Gabrielle (according to this site) is kinda amusing. Of course, it would also be funny if they officially named it 'Bob' (points to anyone who gets the reference XD). I wonder if that was the one they wanted to name Persephone, but couldn't because there's already an asteroid named it.