It's past midnight, and my appointment is in 9+ hours. I think I should sleep. Not that I'm sleepy.
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20 minutes later, I'm not yet asleep.
In other news, my sister flew in from Vegas 24+ hours ago, and will be staying in Chicago until January. My brother will leave Chicago for Austin today on a Greyhound bus, where he will stay for about 2 weeks. So they saw each other only during these 3 days. Laura will visit me from the 24th to the 29th, and she and my family will meet. I am happy that she is coming. I don't doubt they will get along very amicably, but I am curious of my reactions to both her and my parents' presences at the same time. There is a reason I keep my personal life separate from my family. Social incompatibility, I call it. The behavioral patterns I have identified as optimal to exhibit with my family are very, very incompatible with those I enjoy exhibiting with my friends. From my body language to the innermost reactions in me to their jokes, I act differently when I'm with either one. I've tolerated, compromised, and slipped through short interactions with both friends and family before, but I don't remember one so prolongated. It will be an interesting experiment, like gluing a buttered toast butter-side up to the back of a cat.
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