balance

This morning when I woke up, the room was spinning.

That happens to me once in a great while. I'm asleep, probably dreaming, and I hear the alarm and reach out to hit the snooze—and the combination of the alarm intruding into my dream and the effort it takes to reach out with my real-world hand and hit yanks my brain out of sleep sort of like yanking a fish out of water. I spend the next several seconds, sometimes as much as a minute or two, feeling like my head is turning and turning and trying to find the right way up. It's not comfortable, but it's not scary. (Except when the spinning doesn't stop, and then I have to call in sick and go back to sleep. This has happened once in the past year and a half.)

This morning I mentioned to Himself that this was happening (as I reached over and grabbed his elbow to ground myself and stop me flying off the bed and up to the ceiling) and he was pretty concerned. Does this happen to anyone else, this wake-up-induced vertigo thing? Or is it yet another something I probably need to mention to some sort of -ologist?

star wars

We went to see the new movie yesterday afternoon, because we're no longer brave enough to handle opening-night crowds but we didn't want to push it too far and risk getting spoiled.

( What I remember of my stream of consciousness. Spoilers, of course. )

star wars again

Oh okay also.

( More spoilers )