sleepless again …
i’ve been sleeping okay lately, but tonight seems to be one of those nights.
i spent most of the day cleaning our flat, unpacking boxes and stacking stuff away in the crawl space under our raised bed and putting up storage shelves and stacking more stuff away in the basement. then had a hot bath. then dinner. just when i thought i could just drop dead now something in me seemed to wake up for the first time today. now my body is exhausted and my mind is spinning. hmpf.
i had to look up the storage shelves on online dictionary and realised the german word for it, lagerregal, is a palindrome. i definitely need english palindromes.
Exhausted mind, spinning body. I belong to that club! So have you moved? Perhaps you and your partner are together again?
I love palindromes. I married one (Anna). As did my great friend who married Bob. We actually call him The Palindrome. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
hah, i really like that panama palindrome. i think it’s on wiki, too. after i finally went to bed at 3 a.m. i lay awake for another hour trying to construct an english palindrome until i had finally exhausted my mind, too, and fell asleep.
“the move” is a very long story. i gave up my flat (45 min. away, as you know) last summer, moved my stuff to the new flat in cologne, but it wasn’t fit to live in yet. so i moved “temporarily” into my partners home until whenever we would have finished the new lovenest. then we ran out of money. then he tore his meniscus sanding our floors; three months of waiting for doctors appointments, surgery, crutches, physiotherapy followed. well, monday’s the big day (we managed to postpone again ) and we’re packing his stuff in a hurry right now. not to mention i haven’t even unpacked all my stuff in the new flat to make room for his boxes coming in the door on monday.
oh, jason, here is a wake-up palindrome i made all by myself just for you:
“my god, now keats’ dad sees dad’s tae kwon do gym!”
Palindromes are good. Insomnia when your body is knackered; not so good.
I found some english ones for you…
http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_example.html
I particularly like
don’t nod
thanks J, that’s a nice collection!
i like “rats live on no evil star”
oh, it’s you! was perplexed for a moment when i clicked your link and came on the story i had just read half an hour ago.
btw. i think your writing is brilliant. i liked the post with the same setting, two different moods. it’s amazing what you can do with words.
Bine – that palindrome is genius! You must literally have spent hours on that one. I think our minds must operate on the same frequency (see my latest post
Best of luck on the move and on your man’s meniscus continuing to heal.