sleep, reconsidered

Summary of the below entry, for those who don’t care to read much further down the page:

1. i don’t sleep when i have the opportunity to do so.
2. i’ve let my “creativity” get the best of me, again.
3. i’m in the process of creating ANOTHER site, along with accompanying screennames that i’m intent on transititioning to (maybe i’ll follow through with development of this site): uselesslyclever.com
4. i’ve begun working on my first mindless project. mindless projects is something that i’m hoping i can turn into a serious hobby: 31days31shirts.com
5. my return to work was as expected and rather uneventful
6. sleep is my priority on my newly created list of 2007 new year’s resolution

i could so be sleeping right now. it would make sense for me to be asleep right now. i don’t like to do things that make sense. i like to be different.

i have developed something to keep me entertained at random times during the year … i’ve decided that i’ll adopt random pet projects to work on. will they serve a purpose? no. will it be amusing for me? yes. will it amuse anyone else? probably not. does it matter? no, i’m my own entertainment and i kinda like it that way.

to kick off my first pet project of course i had to purchase another domain name. i can now add uselesslyclever.com to the growing list of domain names that i own. i seriously need to get rid of some of these, or at the very least do something with some of them. my first idea is that uselesslyclever.com can be the home where all my “great” ideas go to die. i’ve also taken the respective AIM & Yahoo! screenname. ryanostopher has worn off its welcome. to be honest, uselesslyclever came to me while i was in the shower, i’m surprised that nobody had nevertaken it before, especially in this era where you have to add a million digits to the end of the screenname you want. uselesslyclever will also hopefully eliminate the need to have to explain the origins a million times.

continuing on with my first “clever” idea. while i will keep most of the details a secret from now, i’ve dubbed this first mindless pet project of mine “31days31shirts.com”. i’m started planning out the execution of this idea, which i think might be funny. i’ve already invested $12 in it, i’m hoping that is motivation to follow through on it. my timeframe is set to have it ready to launch in july or august. i’m pushing towards july, simply because i’m not really that fond of the months of august through october. i also thought this one through and bought both 31days31shirts.com AND 31shirts31days.com. i have these crazy fantasies of being one of those spur-of-the-moment sites that are mentioned as the new “hot” thing in Wired or Time Magazine. one day i swear one of my days will be worthy enough.

so yeah, the moral of the story is that i should be left alone for fear of me trying to pretend to be creative, resulting in the birth of crazy ideas such as 31days31shirts.com.

my return to work was rather uneventuful. i found my most productive periods of the day to be morning and early evening. everything in between was a struggle to stay seated at my desk for so long. i’m hoping to be back up to 100%+ productivity by late tomorrow afternoon or sometime thursday.

speaking of work … i’m anxiously awaiting my nameplate for the outside of my office. if i remember correctly the photo actually might end up being rather clever. i can’t belive it’s been eight months since i started working full-time for the agency. that just seems crazy. it feels like just yesterday i was counting the days until graduation. it’s interesting how much people change and grow in such short periods of time.

and it’s 2am, again. one day i’ll get myself on a normal sleeping schedule. we can call that new year’s resolution #2. two resolutions in as many days, i’m setting myself up for disappointment. i better take it slow and not add so many resolutions to the list so quickly. the idea of being on a normal sleeping schedule sounds so great right about now though. i think i’ll make that a priority.

until later.