I did sleep relatively well last night but still feeling tired.  I guess expecting to be as good as new instantly after two months of critters eating me is perhaps a bit unrealistic.  I’ve tried to counter with caffeine but caffeine only goes so far.  Modafinil is too expensive, especially when you add the doctors fees necessary to obtain it, and Adrafinil, which metabolises into Modafinil, providing all the same wakefulness effects is cheap and requires no prescription but prolonged or excessive use hurts your liver, and as House so eloquently put it, “You need your liver to live that’s why they call it a liver.” so knowing my own tendencies towards the extreme I won’t go there.  When I was twenty, I could go three days without sleep and still function.  These days it’s hard to function after a good nights sleep sometimes.

    Which brings to mind, why is it that a substance that has very few harmful side effects requires a prescription, but one that provides exactly the same effects except that excessive use destroys your liver, required none?  What is the logic in that?  Sometimes I get hung up on things which make no sense, which in our society are plentiful.

     Here are some more pictures of Mei, which in Chinese means beautiful, as in meiguo, 美国, which means beautiful country, their name for the United States.  Anyway, left is her trying to get peanut butter out of her Kong.  Notice she gets her entire lower jaw inside it. Tina puts that in there as a way to get her to eat her pill, the right is her attempt to get between me and my computer terminal so I HAVE to pay her attention.