this morning

I don't know how I manage to do this in the morning . . .

• 6:30 - alarm goes off. Ben starts to get up. I think about it and decide that even though I am awake enough to get up, it would be better for me not to go to the gym, since I am still kind of recovering from illness.
  
• 7:00 - Ben asks if he should wake me up, I say no, I'll get up later, and I plan to get up when he gets back. I fall asleep again.
  
• 8:00 - Ben gets back from jogging, I say I will get up soon.
  
• 9:00 - Ben is leaving for work and asks if he should get me up, I say no because I really am planning on getting up in like five minutes.
  
• 9:05 - I fall asleep again.
  
• 10:00 - I wake up and think "Ugh, okay, I need to get up now. I'll just rest for a couple more minutes."
  
• 10:01 - I fall asleep again and start having bizarre dreams.
  
• 10:15 - I wake up again and think "Geez, I guess I fell asleep, at least all those dreams only took fifteen minutes, now I will get up, as soon as I roll over."
  
• 10:20 - I fall asleep again.
  
• 11:00 - I wake up thinking "OMG, how did I manage to stay in bed this long???" and finally get up.
  

This is almost the second time I've done this this week. Except the first time I wasn't anywhere near awake at 6:30 and I actually slept pretty much straight through. Today I was awake, I could have and should have gotten up earlier, but I was too lazy and just kept going back to sleep. I guess my justification here is that normally I will not be able to fall asleep again once I wake up the first time, so if I keep falling asleep like that it is because my body needs the sleep. At least my sleep is almost back to normal, I was only up for about a half hour or 45 minutes in the middle of the night instead of two hours, which is why I was awake at all at 6:30.

This is also why I prefer to have classes in the morning, because if I have no class I just end up wasting the morning rolling around in bed.

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Okay, whose bright idea was it to schedule the WICS (women in CS) bagel lunch at the same time as the RoboCup bagel lunch? Or more accurately, based on the order I got announcements, whose bright idea was it to schedule the RoboCup bagel lunch at the same time as the WICS bagel lunch? I guess there are 15 minutes where they don't overlap.

sorry for all the spamming today

but this was pretty funny . . . I'm looking for some papers for research, and I came across the following citation:

Edan, Y., Rogozin, V., Flash, T. and Miles, G.E. (2000) Robotic Melon Harvesting, IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, 16:831-835.

I had no idea people published in IEEE transactions about melon harvesting. I wonder if someone wrote a PhD dissertation about melon harvesting. Somehow that sounds like something that fits better in an agriculture department! (Actually I think it could be interesting, but I am too lazy to read the article.)

Also, for those of you who think arguing research scientists are funny: http://isb.ri.ccf.org/biomch-l/archives/biomch-l-1996-02/00187.html Basically it is a discussion from a mailing list where a bunch of well-respected scientists start to get into a flame war about whose theories are correct!