Eccentric Flower:199808/i have only one symptom
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six august ninety eight noon i have only one symptom The problem is that I have only one symptom. If I've slept too little, slept too much, or slept too poorly, they all affect me exactly the same way. So I have no idea which is actually the problem. At any rate, I am now surviving my fourth night with something wrong in my sleep cycle, and it's beginning to tell on me. Yesterday I went home from work early because of it - it gets to a point where one cannot focus. It's also affecting my mood. I have been reading the paper and The Economist, looking at Clinton stories and economy stories and such, and it's amazing how many of the stories are causing me to think, "Well, that's it, the world's coming to an end." Netanyahu - this fellow has double-crossed his own party and nearly everyone else he's had an alliance with. Even his cronies don't know what his agenda is anymore. We spend so much time watching Hussein and the Iranians, and meanwhile Israel can do no wrong - although Albright knows better, but her hands are tied. Even the most unlikely stories are triggering me right now. I read a Heinlein story once about a statistician who was tracking trends in "silly season" behaviour - fringe religious groups, flagpole-sitting, streakers, odd fads, and any other cases of temporary individual or mass hysteria. The premise of the story was that they followed a long cycle of peaks and troughs, like sunspot activity, and when the hysteria curve peaked, the economy etc always did bad things. Well, the hysteria curve is going up again. I saw an article about a teenager who streaked through the L.L. Bean store a couple of days ago. The article made most people laugh, I'm sure, but it made me shiver. Under the circumstances, I'm not doing that Millennium Game update until I get at least one decent night's sleep.
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