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Welcome to 2011! One day down--364 more to go! I did something on this first day of the new year--I did my laundry. There were very few people at the laundromat. Maybe everyone was still celebrating.

Dreamed last night but don't recall the details. (Starting out 2011 much like 2010.) It seems there were scenes involving getting comfortable and tossing around in the bed. But that may have been for real and not part of a dream. I remember hearing some loud car music and voices around 3AM. There was a lot of ambient noise last night--from before midnight and into the early morning.

Watched a documentary tonight--Lost Boys of Sudan. It chronicled the paths a couple of the Sudanese refugees as they came to America and tried (they're still trying) to integrate into this culture. It's not an especially happy story but it does say something positive about the human spirit. I think I have problems! It's nothing when compared to what they've undergone. The litany includes the loss of parents and siblings while still young, orphaned into refugee camps, plucked from Africa and scattered across the U.S., dealing with new customs/rules/laws, having to work as they attempt to get educated, and much more. It's a story that needs to be told, but it left me upset at life, at everything.

I assume there are multiple football bowl games gobbling up people's consciousness this weekend. Let the games begin (they probably already have begun)! Tomorrow I'm increasing my medication to three doses per day. I want to see if that moderates the dyskinesia that has appeared over the past three months. I'm supposed to be taking three doses every day; I've never taken that much over the past three years. Will see what happens!