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Since I was suffering from a insomnia (sleeping 4 hours in the evening will do that to you), I decided to crash out on the couch and try to bore myself to sleep.

I don’t know why I thought watching NOVA was a good idea, because NOVA was my favorite TV show growing up and I almost never find it boring.

Anyway, it was 2am and I decided to watch an excellent new episode of NOVA called “Dimming the Sun.” I thought it would be dry or dull, but it was incredibly interesting. It was discussing the effects of a phenomenon called “global dimming” on the world’s climate, and in particular, on how it has been masking the effects of global warming. It began to get kind of scary when they began discussing the potential of accelerated global warming and what that meant for the global environment. (It’s better to watch the episode so you can visualize some of the things they are discussing, but reading the transcript might fill you in on most of the main points on global dimming, if you’re curious.)

By then, it was approximately 3am by the time I was done watching NOVA and I was wide-awake and freaked out. So I decided I need to watch something more light-hearted before I went to sleep and dreamt about the apocalypse.

So I ended up watching 2 and a half episodes of “Everybody Hates Chris.” By the time I started the 3rd episode, I decided I was ready to sleep, so that was about 4:30am. I was awakened by 9am by Yoshi because people were coming over and I didn’t need to be sprawled all over the couch when they got there.

Anyway, I spent half the day trying to tell Yoshi about “global dimming” and finally finished (after many interruptions).

I am now banned from watching NOVA or Nature.

Yoshi should be glad I don’t like scary movies.

Hmmmph.