i couldnt sleep at all.

which is, i believe, a song written by joey ramone.

anyway, one of the problems with only being an insomniac sometimes is that when you do get to sleep, you tend to sleep for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and waste your life away doing so. i planned to get up at 7.30am today, but i couldnt get myself properly awake until 11.20am. i fell asleep on the tram and almost missed my stop. im falling into micro sleeps as we speak. the other problem is that when you cant sleep you convince yourself that you can and just spend all night trying to get to sleep instead of getting up and doing something productive. when you do decided that sleeping is not going to happen you get up and do useless things to try and get yourself to sleep. they generally dont work because they are often minesweeper which becomes very frustrating when you're doing advanced level and you're down to uncovering the last 4 squares and then you fuck up. or spider solitaire where, after a while of fucking up you say to yourself 'fine, i'll stop playing after the next game i win', which takes a while to happen. then you do win and your get your confidence back and say to yourself 'alright then, just one more, just one more'. and this goes on for hours.
i have decided that instead of being a pathetic do nothing with your time awake kind of insomniac, i shall set myself a goal to learn how to solve my rubik's cube in the time i am awake at night when i cant get to sleep, or have forgotten how to do so.
these are some of the sites i will refer to in my learning process, as i dont think i can figure it out on my own.
rubik's solver. this is for beginners and shall be a good place for me to start as i am sick of making the same mistakes and have decided to start over again.
this is another beginners site, incase the other one doesnt work. but the people who made the other site are thinking of making a book, so i think they must know a lot about instructing people to solve a cube.
this shall be the next step in my cubing quest. this is a site for learning to speed cube, an admirable skill, and something i shall pursue.
and finally i will get myself the series of choose your own adventure when it comes out on dvd as lawrence said he is filming an instructional video to put on the special features and shall fill many a dull night.