I should be alseep... but I'm too excited!

so... I currently live in an apartment that doesn't have air conditioning. It's among some student housing that's provided by the university parish where I work. Today has been the hottest day so far. When I checked the weather channel, it was 86 degrees, but I woulnd't be surprised if it had gotten warmer throughout the day.

Also, I've developed the bad habit of staying up waaaay too late and then sleeping in the next morning, especially on days when I don't have work. Fortunately, this hasn't impacted my performance. There was one day last week when I didn't get clock in til about half hour later than usual, but since I have a flexible schedule, I only work a half day on Thursdays, and, to my surprise, the other summer worker, who works the other half day, had already opened the office and was planning on working the whole day, all was gravy and I just worked in my office.

All this is to say that because of my abnormal sleep schedule and the increasingly warm nights with no A/C, even though I finished my nightly reading and fell asleep at an unprecendented 11:47 PM... I find myself wide awake right now.

I've been up for almost an hour and I'm not sure I'll be going back to bed anytime soon... though I'm going to try as soon as I post this. As I tried to fall back asleep and sensed it wasn't going to happen, I decided that if I wasn't asleep again by 4, I'd grab a few necessity( pillow, sheet, etc) and head for the couch in my delightfully cool office. Not 10 minutes had passed before it was confirmed within me: I was just too uncomfortable to return to dreamland (even though I haven't been able to remember many of my dreams lately, except for one involving one of my elderly coworkers doing an awful liturgical dance with a large white rose at fake mass, pretend-celebrated by a womynpreest...what a nightmare!) So, I threw on a shirt and went to check out my office, really to see if I needed to bring my fan or if I'd be lulled to sleep by the sound of the vents. As I walked towards the kitchen and main lounge, which I had to pass through to get to my office, I half expected to see one of the students who just might have a touch of insomniac in the kitchen watching Golden Girls (what, it's one of his favorite shows? i don't judge). The TV was on, to my frustration but not surprise, because no one was around.

I get into my office. The first thing I notice besides the perfect sleeping temperature is the eerie blue glow from the computer's ON light. Naturally I sit down at the computer, giggle yet again at my Mother Angelica "I'm so tired of you, liberal Church!" quote as I think, "Well maybe I'll just check my email real quick". As I double clicke the aquamarine lowercase e icon, it occurs to me to instead check the Courage Apostolate webpage...

Low and behold it's like Christmas Morning! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!!! Feel free to examine the schedule. I'm pretty pumped about the speakers. I already knew Card. Burke and Fr. Groeschel were speaking, but I was delighted to find that Bishop Olmsted, who, if memory serves, was the one who removed the Catholic affiliation of that hospital that was performing abotions in his diocese had also made the cut, as well as Msgr John Esseff, a retired exorsist who can read souls. Our Catholic student group brought Msgr Esseff to campus a couple years ago just before I really started to get involved and thus I missed the event. He didn't drive out any demons, but those who did get to interact with him have some amazing stories and have grown much spiritually because of him. He did call down a 9 ft tall angel to guard and protect the men's common room, from what I hear, which is actually just next door to mine...

Anyway, the main point of this post is that you can now register for Courage. I would register right now, except I currently do not have the funds. Am I worried at all? Maybe irrationally that it will somehow fill up and registration will close before 9AM... Though that would be awesome because that means it's only more people who may need Courage more than I do would get to experience the conference... I'm not worried about not being able to afford it, though, because my diocese is going to be sponsoring me, two other laypeople, and three clergy. How cool is that? So, at 9, I'm going to call the diocesan office.

So... I feel like I did years ago, waking up with my little brother way before the rest of my family did on Christmas morning... cept I have no idea what I'm going to do for the next few hours before I shower and get ready and embark on my one minute comute from my room to the front desk... hm... Not sure if I can fall back asleep... videogames?