Unfinished business: Cereus peruvianus branch

About three or four times a year, I have nights when I just don't sleep at all. I don't plan them or particularly desire them; I just kinda fail to be sleepy at the appropriate time of night, so I don't try to sleep, and then I get to feel vaguely crappy for the two weeks afterward. The reason I bring this up is because the night of Oct. 30-31 was one of those nights, so I'm going to be a bit off until I get back around to a normal sleep schedule again, and things will likely still be weird because Daylight Savings Time is about to happen, which will screw me up even more. So you should probably not expect much from the blog for a while. (The RATJ will continue according to the original plan, however, regardless of whether I slack on the regular posts or not.)

I've also been trying to upload a new batch of yearbook pictures to the places where I store those. I hope that the effort will pay off eventually, in future posts, but for the moment it's a lot of careful copying and pasting, which eats up a lot of time and doesn't accomplish much in the short-term.

Anyway. The plant-related content for this post is this:


As everybody said it would, my plant's mysterious bud has turned out to be a branch, not a flower. I might actually be happier about this than I would have been about a flower, because it lasts longer. Though a flower would have been a better reason to stay up all night.