Half-asleep is easily one of my favorite states of being, ever. I just wish that I could remember my thoughts and feeling from that point better, but I suppose I can't ask for everything now, can I? It's wonderful to hear that you're enjoying your break though, I'm looking forward to being out a lot as well. It's much better than staying at home for days on end, that's not going to leave any worthwhile memories or experiences.
As for my life, it's been fair. I'm exceedingly fed up with school right now, my ideas and thoughts have been contradicting it more and more often lately. Next week's break will definitely be used to its fullest, and hopefully school will be a bit more tolerable afterward. On the good side of things, the weather is (finally) beginning to give me hope that winter will end someday, and I've been associating with a wonderful girl quite a lot lately. Other than that, things are nearly as uneventful as things usually are, which I don't altogether mind.
The name change is actually a reversion more than a change, I think Pelafina was my longest actively used handle. If you got around to House of Leaves, and knew a bit more about my personal life, I think you'd understand its significance quite a it more. (that last sentence sounded condescending, I'm sorry. That wasn't my intention.) Faye was excellent on the day I thought of it, but I didn't really care for it afterward. As for the drugs, it just reinforces my ardent belief that it's possible to use drugs and still be a (reasonably) intelligent and respectable person.
I always love talking to you, Naomi, because it's easy to write something like the above. I really do wish more people enjoyed having conversations like these.