ugh

i am the only person i know who gets sick from drinking too much water.
yet despite all this water (which my stomach is not thrilled with) i'm still dehydrated. will someone PLEASE explain this? and i exaggerate not about the dehydration. the back of my throat is completely dry.

i'm torn between wanting to just bring the damn brita pitcher in here and set it next to my bed to save trips to the kitchen every 20 minutes, and certainty that if i do, i'll knock the damn thing over at 4:43am and have water all over the floor (or possibly my bed. there are no limits to my klutziness when i'm both tired and what, if alcohol induced, would probably be called drunk.)

looks like tonight won't be much more restful than last night was.

*sigh*

so am i the only one...

cynic that i am, i couldn't help noticing that two stories broke about the same time. mr rove having to testify yet again, this time aware his ass is on the line, and the threat to the nyc subway. not at the exact same time though. mr. rove going to the grand jury definitely preceded the subway story. call me cynical, but this administration used to jerk around the color coded threat scheme (which they seem to have now forgotten) quite a bit. every time there was something around they wanted to distract you from, the color went up. pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

( in which i discourse on the threat, al qaeda, and government stupidity )

i accept the possibility that this threat may be real. this time. but the administration has manipulated the media before. it's getting to the point of the boy who cried wolf. but if they're really, honestly worried, could they do us all a favor? start putting intelligent people on this "war against terror" instead of cronies and idealogues. and stop spouting off that we can't engage or negotiate their grievances. we can and should engage, and it's the grievances of the people on the arab street we need to be worried about, not the grievances of the muslim equivalent of operation rescue. this is a complex problem. start thinking about it in ways that go beyond black and white to include the many shades of grey.