sjamesho.v3

this morning i woke up again sleep deprived but that was sort of okay since i figured i would sleep on the flight to New York. as this journey would take up most of my day i picked up a hearty breakfast burrito a block from my house at Burrito Express. i finished eating it and was completely stuffed as soon as my mom dropped me at the airport. this is a good thing due to the continued skimpage of in-flight meals and/or snacks. so after checking in, then boarding, i settled into my seat and got comfortable for sleep was demanding attention and i was not about to ignore it. there was another thing that i couldn’t ignore. about 20 minutes into the flight, there was this little girl who just wouldn’t shut up. she was either crying, talking loud, or just making intermittant noises. as hard as i tried to sleep, there was none to be had. if there’s an unwritten courtesy rule of tipping your restaurant server, then i think there should also be an rule of tipping the parents for letting their child be so disruptive on a flight (or a movie theater, what have you) by having all the passengers give a firm but gentle slap that doesn’t leave a mark. anyways, i arrived at Chicago MDW airport and found that my connecting flight has been delayed for about an hour, give or take. but in no time i was once again boarding and once again trying to settle in. if i were to get any sleep it would be on this shorter 2 hour flight. but ~nooooo~. did i just happen to pick the lucky flights that had disruptive children on each of them? i closed my eyes and i believe that i slipped into some level of unconsciousness but not the restful kind unfortunately. i had just come around to entertain the possibility of having kids of my own. how quickly these two kids almost drove me to the brink of anti-offspring resolution.

tired from lack of sleep the previous night and the struggle to find the slightest taste of rest on the flight, i disembarked the plane and stepped foot in New York. My uncle James, aunty Mag, and two cousins Jessica and Justin picked me up and we all went to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner after which we went to their home in Port Washington where i must say its good to finally stop. i’m here visiting for the week as well as taking advantage of a free ticket from the Southwest Airlines rewards program.

the Hawaii 2006 picture gallery is all done and uploaded. i guess that’s all i’m going to write for now. good night!

my Kauai pictures are all formatted now so it looks like i’m pretty much on schedule for its gallery. i’ll probably finish up coding the gallery thumbnails and pop-up windows for the pictures later this afternoon but for now i think i’ll give my wrists a break… heck i think i’ll even give my whole body a break.

i don’t know what’s been going on with me since i’ve returned from Hawaii. seems like my mind starts going on overdrive when it gets around 1-2:00a. and then speeds up about 4:30a. then all of a sudden its 6:00a, at which i make a conscious effort to stop whatever i’m doing so that my mind can wind down. i close my eyes hoping that drowsiness and exhaustion will overcome me and take me to blissfull unconscious rest. however, i struggle even to turn off all the things careening through my head as my eyes are closed. i glimpse the sunrise coming through my window briefly and the next thing i know sleep captures me and holds my brain in a temporary suspension until my alarm goes off.

this has happened for the last two days and by God’s grace, i’m not going to allow the charmed third. so i end this post at 01:58a with anticipation of sleep normalcy at least from this early morning. oh how bad habits are hard to break and good ones are hard to start!

we got back three days ago and i’ve been getting my pictures ready for upload for the last couple of hours. if i don’t get all distracted-like, the pictures will be up by tuesday. maybe sooner but i’m not promising anything.