Rip Van Wellsie

[entelein]

We've all had those moments of utter confusion upon waking: you think to yourself that AM and PM have been flipped over, and you've actually been asleep for 14 hours instead of 2. When I first woke up, it was 8:19 on the glowing digital display, and I thought for a good five minutes as I came to, that today was going to be so gloomy and cloudy, as it was so dark and blue throughout the apartment. It wasn't until I stumbled to my computer and actually moused over the clock in the system tray that I saw it was still the previous day. The gloomy darkness was actually a pretty blue summery dusk falling over Chicago.

I went back to bed. Awoke at 2.

Awoke at 2, mind you, having slept more in one nap than in any two nights combined from the last week. So I stayed up a bit, worried I'd be up up up all night from screwing up my own circadian rhythms, but then I went back to bed.

Awoke around 7 AM, with Squeaky gently reaching out a paw and touching my chin, purring all the while.

I feel weird and left out and flat and a tiny bit sullen. I'm throwing myself into some website organization as a means of distraction, and it's starting to work, a little bit. June of 1999, re-named and tidied just a bit, to be plopped back into the eye of the internets, for consumption once more. Someday I'll restore all of it. One month at a time.

mrfl.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ah. I've been through a recent spate of sleep schedule weirdness, as well. Probably took me about two weeks to get back to "normal." What didn't help, of course, is that right now I'm at home writing most of the time, with no requirement that I show up at some reasonable hour the next morning.

Try to fight through the grogginess during the day. Close to bedtime, start dimming lights. Chew some valerian root. Then proofread my dissertation - if that doesn't put you out, then you're beyond medical help :)

Cheerio,
Mikey

[entelein.livejournal.com]

I've got these Kalms tablets I get from the UK - valerian and gentian root inside, and they do help when I am not able to sleep. I wish that were the problem, though.

I just get stubborn, and wired up on ideas and conversations and things to do. I have too many hobbies. It's always go go go. If I went to bed, I'd fall asleep easily. As it is, I am monofocusing on stuff, and depriving myself willfully.