ugh

Ye gods, this is going to be a long day.

I went to bed/sleep at 11.30. At 3.30 one of the cats woke me up by threatening to yak on the bed. This was averted and I gave everyone doses of Petromalt.

Then I COULD NOT get back to sleep.

Eventually I was able to sleep again around 5.

Then I had a dream in which I nearly ran down some kids and ended up driving all the grass in a park in Arlington. THEN I had a nightmare in which there kept being snakes (my real phobia) all over the house that the cats kept finding and trying to kill, plus Melissa was keeping chickens, a cheetah cub, and some other animals in her apartment--this was some other house that we were all living in. Then after about the fifth snake, Chris started getting irritated at me for asking for help, I burst into floods of tears, she asked me if I were taking cocaine, and I slapped her in the face. Like I said, a nightmare.

Then my alarm went off at 6.45.

This is going to be a long day.

Edit: And I need to be in to work early, because I have to cram 9.5 hours of work in before I leave for tonights' DC United match... :-( (End of the pay period, and I owe hours...)

incredibly disturbing analysis

Part of a BBC analysis of Pakistan's schizophrenic approach to antiterrorism:

"There seems to be a near consensus in the Pakistani security apparatus that the Karzai government is bound to collapse.

Should that happen, Pakistani security analysts are certain that the US will turn to "moderate Taleban" to keep Afghanistan together."

Man do I hope they are wrong on both counts. Rumours I have heard suggest that things are very, very bad in Afgahnistan, though, worse then the press is making out.