I cannot blame anyone else for this, I just got a bit too little sleep last night.  Time flies when you are having fun!  Five hours sleep plus one hour delta entrainment should have been nearly enough, but it does not feel like it.  I was sleepy much of the day at work, just like in the old days before brainwave entrainment.  Inspiration just cannot substitute for sleep.  Of course, there may have been factors at the workplace too, but I cannot write about those.

This afternoon and evening I have had a slight headache.  Nothing too bad, but it makes me wonder whether it is just from lack of sleep or if it is related to whatever keeps my lymph nodes tender.  It still hurts a little when I swallow, a week and a day after it broke out in earnest.  Again, nothing too bad. I would probably have ignored it if it started like this, but not with the memory of the much stronger pain in fresh memory.  But clearly there is still something, whatever it is.

On a vaguely related note, I found online today a prayer to El Cantare for recovery from illness. No, I did not try it. I’m already in a relationship with Jesus Christ, so to speak. You may even say I have a “prayer commitment”.  Besides, even El Cantare says that Jesus is the head of the healing spirits. Furthermore, direct intervention like that just isn’t his style. In another of his books, Ryuho Okawa (known as 20% of El Cantare) says that if you are poor, he will not give you money. Your problem is that you love poverty, and giving you money won’t fix that. Instead he will give you the Truth so you can change your mindset.  He implies in the same chapter that the same may hold true for illness: There are illnesses that come from fate, he says, but most come from people driving themselves into illness through not taking care of themselves.  (For example me by not getting to bed in time!)  So instead of praying to El Cantare you should normally take his reasonable advice to heart instead, it seems.

Still, there is such a prayer. There is also one to get married.  From scratch, I mean, not for the actual wedding but to find someone to build an Utopian home with.  I did not try that either.  Although I admit if I could build a home that was a Fortress of Light, as the prayer says, I would be somewhat less adverse to it than now I am. Then again I am very adverse right now.  It is bad enough to be half sick if you don’t have to be married as well.

(Yes, yes, it is an opportunity to give more love than you receive. But that is why we have jobs. And online journals. My day already has 25 hours.)

In other Happy Science news, a twitter gave out a link to an online Happy Science library with several of their monthly magazines.  You can actually subscribe to those in paper format as well, I believe, but this is great for us who live online anyway. The only problem is that it does not work with my mobile phone, because the site uses Flash.  Needlessly, in my opinion.  Commute bus is otherwise a great place to read.

Oh, that reminds me.  As a measure of just how sleepy I was, I forgot my bag at work. It contains not only my MP3 player and large headphones, but also the current book.  As it happens, the sunshine was so strong and so low that I could probably not have read anyway, so it is all good.  But having carried that bag to and from work thousands of consecutive workdays, it takes something to just forget it.  Tonight I’ll sleep for 7 hours and then an hour (or nearly so) of delta entrainment.  Let’s see how that works.