Poem

Ah the half-dreams of night. My midterm proceeds, I have hopes for success, but as I let my mind clear for a moment, the sweeter and stranger thoughts fly in, making poems and physics and love intertwine.

It seems now and then
In the late middle night
You are closer to me in all parts
That you hear my heart's songs
That you see my mind's dreams
That you feel my soul's touch
It seems thus

And where I orbit you in the brightness of day
In the night I am center and I guide your way

Perhaps once we passed on the road and we caught
And about that one point we did spin
But something has changed in the rules we had wrought
And I orbit you
Then you orbit me
Like a free moving mass on a rod
You pass me the weight and you spin round me
And I pass it to you and I fly up, over, down
And repeat, day to night back to day

Only a thought
And only a thought
That you feel me
In your sleep
And your dreams
Yes I know it's my wish
But it's my half-dream...

Log

Okay, so I stayed up all night last night (quite fruitfully, actually - my midterm turned out well) and only took a nap when it became clear halfway through my first class that I was dozing off (I went to the SPS room, and a few minutes later Patricia came by and said, "Oh, are you napping?" - and after I said yes she said she'd turn out the light for me). So I was awake until about 9:50 but didn't actually sleep until noon, when I caught three hours before my last class.

We sidetracked the discussion in religious studies class a bit today - from analysis of Camus's The Plague to different definitions of Hell and what exactly is the point of it. Paneloux's sermon gets on my nerves, because it strikes the most annoying notes of 'Christianity'. Anyway, we got into a discussion of Aquinas and Berkeley and theodicy and ventured into the definition of Hell I tend to use - and curiously that brought us directly back to Camus, since I use the separation definition. But that discussion was so interesting and fruitful that we didn't get to Guernica and Yates.

I have to prepare people and monsters for the game tonight.