Blearily

Forty years ago this very morning, we woke blearily from a feverish jam-packed party all‑nighter which had jubilantly swirled around a whole floor of the swish Regency Hyatt hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. ❋ Frank Keating (2010)

She glared blearily at the flight attendants, remembering what it felt like to have the flu and summoning all that misery to her face. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I ripped it off and flipped it over, squinting blearily at what was written on the other side. ❋ Jo Whittemore (2011)

He shifted and blinked blearily at me; he was as stunned as I. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

Some days find you blearily noticing the blinking light on the electric toothbrush recharger in the predawn hours and thinking to yourself, "I'd better check my messages." ❋ Alison (2010)

Next thing he knew, he was sitting, staring blearily up into the dark canopy of the jungle. ❋ Howard Gordon (2011)

Leslie looks at the man hung in the doorframe, blearily rubbing at his eyes, and searches his face for genetic cues, anything to connect herself to him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I shambled into the bathroom and gazed blearily into the mirror. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

Beneath her, Max lay on her back, blinking blearily, her body twitching as magic zapped her. ❋ Diana Pharaoh Francis (2011)

I'd been up all night, in fact, as had my father (my mother slept, but was blearily there for the landing.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

This TV year could quite forgivably have kicked off its first week as did the rest of us, blearily zonked by family and travel and too many mismatched memories of an extremely strange 2011; begun it either literally or figuratively by leaning grudgingly into the wind with itchy present-socks and scratchy foreboding and an old-brain urge to simply… hide… until spring. ❋ Unknown (2012)

That makes a few guaranteed things to cross off immediately, and usually even simultaneously; since they are practically automatic functions, I can discover, once I blearily look at the list, that I have already “accidentally” finished a bunch of things on the list. ❋ Unknown (2009)