I should sleep more
Written @ 9:15 a.m. on January 19, 2004
I generally try and stay awake as long as I possibly can, usually by reading in bed until the words blur and I can't stay focused on the story line. I've found that if I keep myself up really late, then I can fall asleep right away and not lie awake thinking about things. I probably don't get more sleep this way, but I really hate laying in bed, not sleeping and thinking. I have a bad tendency to imagine worst case scenarios in minute detail, like the house catching fire in the middle of the night, and what I would do, and what the aftermath would be etc. Or, if someone close to me happens to be away, I imagine that they have some sort of accident. It gets me really worked up sometimes, and then I can't sleep at all. Anyhow, the biggest problem with staying up late is that I sleep in on weekends. So, come Sunday night, I've shifted my sleep pattern so far that I'm not falling asleep until two in the morning and then I have to be up at seven for work. Five hours of sleep is fully half of what my body tells me it needs, and so Mondays are very slow, non-productive days. Not that that's new for anyone, but it still sucks. And, to top it all off, my office smells like a sewer this morning. I don't know where the air vents in here connect but we get some truly awful smells. Sometimes it smells like a swamp, sometimes like smoke, and sometimes we can smell someone's lunch.
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