wakin up

the hours have started to pick up again at work for the winter rush. this amongst other things has made it harder for me to get up in the morning. i've generally had a window near my place of sleeping(or a quasi-transparent roof) that has let sunlight brush my eyes for most of my life. in college if i was stubborn there were blinds thick enough to close and keep all possible sunlight out, but if i had to get up for anything i dared not close them. now i live in a room with no windows. tyghe doesn't either, but he seems to get up just fine. me, i generally wake up still half dreaming. like this morning i was convinced i was still dreaming, getting up to go walk around rome for the morning. once i left my room and felt the cold in the hallway(our ac unit is letting ice air in the common room window) i snapped out of it since my rome universe was summery. i'm just thinking now i've had a dream surrounding the spanish steps three times in the last month.

anyway, my routine has fallen apart over the last couple months with all the travelling out of town and work getting crazier and the rest. i need to pull it back together, and put in the couple new facets i've been meaning to coordinate, mainly resuming my african drumming lessons and making my music writing a more regular event. winter here requires a good routine to make it through healthily, as well as lots of movie watching and book reading, otherwise the cold seeps into you and doesn't leave til the end of spring. more or less.

peace