Oh, look, it's another grid filled with stuff.
This whole sleeping poorly thing is really starting to wear on me. Lately, my nights have consisted of either one, or in some cases both, of the following occuring:
- I'm groggy and lethargic all evening, but as soon as I go to bed, my mind starts racing and I can't fall asleep
- I wake up at a ridiculously early hour, such as 4.30 or 5 am, and then can't get back to sleep until about 6.30 or so -- then, the alarm goes off at 7 (this is the more common scenario of the two)
This occasionally makes it hard to concentrate and do stuff during the day, like write (current working gig requires me to do a lot of writing), or sit in the library quietly and read articles for class, like I tried to do today. I also would up bailing early out of Blamb's party last night, because I was tired. (Thanks for the invite, Brett -- sorry we didn't chat much before I left.)
Anyway, not much else to report, except that this is the first week that it's really been cold, and then it snowed on Friday. Winter is well on its way.
(BTW, all images on this week's board are from stock.xchng.)
Comments
"as soon as I go to bed, my mind starts racing"
"I wake up at a ridiculously early hour"
Sounds like stress to me............but I'm just a 'dummy'.
I wake up early too, but it's due to pain, and the desire to 'get on with it' (stealing time whenever I can for myself) my working day starts @7, so a 4:30 up time isn't too far off the mark, I can live with it.
Posted by: junkman | November 20, 2005 6:46 PM
Thanks, junkman.
I'm inclined to agree with you that my "symptoms" map to those for stress (or depression). Thing is, I don't feel all *that* stressed or depressed. Just sort of "meh", "ho-hum", or whatever.
Things aren't bad -- they're just not super-exciting either.
Posted by: jen | November 20, 2005 8:20 PM
Ahhhhhhhh you shouldn't be depressed, you have lots of good stuff going on.......I *think* it's the racing mind thing (when trying to sleep) that you should pay attention to. Try putting things away before going to bed (take 10 minutes to think over your day, resolving the un-resolved), and try a big thick slow moving (but interesting) book, when you find yourself reading the same paragraph 3, or 4 times, you will know 'it's time'.
In times past folks did physically exhausting work and had no trouble sleeping, you may have to turn your level of physical activity up. Hard, I know, especially with winter around the corner, but if you have to, you have to.
Posted by: junkman | November 20, 2005 9:35 PM