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Slept for a couple of hours, woke up around 1 AM.

The weird thing about this latest round of insomnia is that I'm very often hungry shortly after I wake up...not that I'm waking because I'm hungry.

I've also been eating lots and lots of fruit. One of my favorite parts of winter is citrus fruit...and I take advantage of it to the fullest.

And in my journalcruising, I've discovered that two of my readers have the same birthday as I do. Neat!

I'm at a complete loss about what to do about this insomnia. I can't blame the medication anymore at this point, but I'm stuck. And wide awake, and going back to work the day after tomorrow.

Partway Gay?

Very long article from the Washington Post-worth the time to read it though.

( Move over, Ellen DeGeneres, and make way for the younger girls. Way younger, actually, and way different from what most people think of as lesbians. You can see this new trend on Friday nights outside Union Station, sweethearts from high schools around the Washington area, some locking lips, others hanging out in their tight blue jeans and puffy winter parkas, talking on their cell phones. )

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I can't even begin to express how angry I am right now.

I walked out of my apartment today to go get groceries, and there was graffiti on the mailboxes in my building. But not just any graffiti, a gang tag.

I know there's gang activity nearby...but it's always been a little further away that you could see the tags. For those who know my area a bit...north of here, over by the metro, and south of here, near the skanky movie theatre.

It's not MS-13...I've seen their tags further up. MS-13 is the gang that would really worry me...but if another gang is claiming territory down here, they're not far behind.

I deal reasonably well with gang activity-some parts of my work put me in contact with gang members, and there are some places that I could walk through where there is heavy gang activity but because the kids know me from work, I'm left alone. I don't like, I just live with it. But it's gotten too close to home now.

I'd mused on moving before, when my lease is up, but I don't really want to. This may change that. But it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to do it, if I'm going to be back at school in the fall. So now I don't know what I'm doing.