I'm afraid after my long Tuesday in Chicago, i was wiped out all the rest of the week, and had little brain power to spare for very much "extra-curricular" verbal activity. Monday and Tuesday i only got 10 hours of sleep out of 48 and my poor brain felt like a frisbee every evening for the rest of the week. Work during the day went fine, but it was all i could do to just watch a video in the evenings afterwards. It seemed to particularly affect the verbal part of my brain: i didn't write any e-mail, work on my newsletter, or even read very much at all in the second half of the week.

I think i'm back to normal this evening. Last night my dad and i went to Greenville to see my most favorite band in the world, the Vigilantes of Love. A great time was had by all, but we got back at around 2 am, since Greenville is about 2 hours away. I slept in until 9am (virtually unheard of in my case-- rarely do i ever sleep until 8am, let alone 9am), got up and had breakfast and watched a few episodes of M*A*S*H just for the heck of it, and then went to go read Ed Welch's book, "When People are Big and God is Small". I only read a few pages before i zonked out again, and slept for another 2.5 hours. I think the week's "sleep debt" is paid off, however, because i find myself able to once again string words together in a coherent fashion. :)