Tired, again

Actually, I am incredibly tired right now, but I'm staving off going to sleep until midnight or so, for a couple of reasons. Frist, I have sleep decently maybe one night in the last six. By decently, I mean waking up maybe once or twice. My recent cycle has been that I sleep for maybe ten or twenty minutes and then I wake up and I'm up for more than a half hour, but only when I start REM cycles. I have no problem with non-dreaming sleep. But dream sleep is really difficult to make it through.

My sewing is going ok, I suppose. I have four more projects to finish my the end of htis year, after I finish the one I'm working on right now. Make that six. I have two projects with nothing but back stitching, but I hate back stitching, so I put that off forever. I have three HUGE projects to work on throughout the year, such that I will not be buying any cross stitching (hopefully) throughout this year.

The book front is another story. I have been knocking books off my shelves like crazy. I think I've gone through four in the past two weeks, not to mention scanning my philosophy books for anything I don't need to use for my thesis. I'm down to a shelf and a half worth of books to read, which is good.

My tastes in reading definitely have changed. Two years ago, I was all over C.S. Lewis' stuff, like Chronicles of Narnia, (except The Last Battle, I've always hated that book, absolutely terrible ending to a wonderful series). However I kind of put off reading one book that I got for Christmas in 2005, I think, The Screwtape Letters. I read it over the last two days, and really got nothing out of it, except that C.S. Lewis was kind of a prick. I really didn't care much for the book, the topic, or the diatribe about how anything not agreeing with him is basically going into the demons' hands. Sounds a hell like a lot of priests I hear.

Whenever I read my posts from then and what I think now, I've definitely undergone profound changes. I'm far more self-sufficient on what I consider to be a good idea and what is a bad one. I'm far less theologically or even philosophically inclined. I don't care much for either now, it's just that I'm doing this thesis because it's pretty much the only class I need for the major, and I've done this much work already, so I may as well finish it off.

I think I'm going to have to read The Origin of Species for my thesis, or at least a good portion of it. Not that I mind. I've accepted most of evolution's ideas and theories as consistent with evidence. I think that it can't be a very accurate theory though, since we lack so much archaeology that could be of great benefit to us. DNA is definitely going to change about 50% of what we think about biology soon.

Come to think of it, that's where I should go with my thesis: what have been the great breakthroughs of biology? Evolution, DNA, Cellular theory, and I would have to biasedly say immunology.

That's how I would have to organize my paper, I think.

So, I know where to start. Good.

I am totally in the mood to start something for this semester. Maybe I should start reviewing my French and starting Chapitre Cinq.