Monday, July 21, 2003
Sleep! As you can tell by the time of this post, it's been hard to come by lately. I don't know why either. I just finished a physical and they (for all they really know) say I'm fine. What sucks is that I'm exhausted at work and at home during the day -- can hardly keep my eyes open, but when it's night and time to sleep (like now) I'm wide awake.
I don't think this is all that uncommon. Isn't fatigue and sleep supposed to be the latest and greatest threat facing American civilization (if you don't count war, pestilence and famine)? I've heard of a lot of people running their tanks on empty. Working a couple of jobs, raising a family, taking care of the house -- and trying to find some sleep in the middle of all that. I'm a little different. Right now there's no family, no kids, and the house is slowing falling apart around me. Nothing major, just little things -- but lots of them. I just have no energy to fix any of them. I have my truck half disassembled and am trying like hell to get the get up and go to get up and go fix it. Maybe I ought to start working on it at 2am!
I think this winter kind of ruined me for summer sleeping. I like the house COLD! This winter the average temperature was around 60 to 65 and would usually drop into the 50s overnight. I'd usually wear a pair of sweats in the house. Occasionally, I'd get an urge to warm up and crank the heat up to around 72 or so. I do have to admit, that I would use a space heater in the bathroom now and then. But sleeping was so great. I'd bury myself under a pile of blankets with the stereo softly playing classical music on NPR and sleep like a log. I felt like a bunny buried in his burrow -- all comfy and safe and sound with the blankets keeping me company. Now it's summer and the 70s and 80s and even - gasp - 90s.
I do have air conditioning, but let's face it, there's no way I could keep it in the 60s at night. I'd have to rob a bank to pay the electric bills. Cool evenings are nice when it's in the 60s, but there's still that summer humidity. Like tonight it was raining and humid and hot during the day and yucky all around.
Well, I suppose I need to go back to bed and try to get some sleep. I gotta get up in a little over six hours and get into work - sigh. I'll be nodding over my keyboard again, waking to a line of xxxxxxxxxxx across the screen and QWERTYUIOP stencilled on my forehead.
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I don't think this is all that uncommon. Isn't fatigue and sleep supposed to be the latest and greatest threat facing American civilization (if you don't count war, pestilence and famine)? I've heard of a lot of people running their tanks on empty. Working a couple of jobs, raising a family, taking care of the house -- and trying to find some sleep in the middle of all that. I'm a little different. Right now there's no family, no kids, and the house is slowing falling apart around me. Nothing major, just little things -- but lots of them. I just have no energy to fix any of them. I have my truck half disassembled and am trying like hell to get the get up and go to get up and go fix it. Maybe I ought to start working on it at 2am!
I think this winter kind of ruined me for summer sleeping. I like the house COLD! This winter the average temperature was around 60 to 65 and would usually drop into the 50s overnight. I'd usually wear a pair of sweats in the house. Occasionally, I'd get an urge to warm up and crank the heat up to around 72 or so. I do have to admit, that I would use a space heater in the bathroom now and then. But sleeping was so great. I'd bury myself under a pile of blankets with the stereo softly playing classical music on NPR and sleep like a log. I felt like a bunny buried in his burrow -- all comfy and safe and sound with the blankets keeping me company. Now it's summer and the 70s and 80s and even - gasp - 90s.
I do have air conditioning, but let's face it, there's no way I could keep it in the 60s at night. I'd have to rob a bank to pay the electric bills. Cool evenings are nice when it's in the 60s, but there's still that summer humidity. Like tonight it was raining and humid and hot during the day and yucky all around.
Well, I suppose I need to go back to bed and try to get some sleep. I gotta get up in a little over six hours and get into work - sigh. I'll be nodding over my keyboard again, waking to a line of xxxxxxxxxxx across the screen and QWERTYUIOP stencilled on my forehead.
2fers: http://www.vicks.com/products/nyquil_liquid.shtml and http://www.sheepusa.org/
