September 24, 2004
Background to 'Wasted'
(Or, the reason why last night pissed me off more than it probably should have.)
It is impossible to find enough time to sleep.
I hate getting up early in the morning. I am by nature a night person; left to my own devices, I'll stay up until 2 or 3 every morning and wake up around 10. But I am not left to my own devices--I"m left to Spark's devices. And that requires that I wake up by 7 every morning.
Which requires that I go to bed by midnight, even though I would like to stay up so I can get things done, like, for example, my homework. But I go to bed at midnight anyway even though I feel like I have 2 more productive hours in my day because I know that otherwise I'll have no productive hours tomorrow.
Forcing my body to work on this schedule is not working very well. I'm worthless from 7 until 10 every morning. And I never feel rested enough. I have to take naps in the middle of the day in order to keep going. My sleep at night never feels like it is actually giving me any rest when I go to bed at these hours.
But I don't really have a whole lot of options here. I'm not sure what to do.
- wink [September 24, 2004 10:40 PM]enoch choi says:
get more sleep. go to sleep earlier. and put full posts into your RSS Feeds so i can read the whole post, and put off going to sleep just that much longer, myself ;)
Jeremy Pierce says:
One problem with putting full posts into RSS feeds is that they then clog up aggregators. Maybe this isn't as much a problem with Wink, who doesn't tend to do really long posts (as I sometimes do), and as far as I know doesn't belong to a bunch of aggregators that consist almost entirely of initial samples of posts so people can scan down the page and just click on the links of interesting-looking posts.
wink says:
I'll think about adding the full posts to the RSS feed. I just don't have as much time to tinker as I would like. I'd rather put that time into writing posts.
gr1d says:
I have had to wrench my schedule around so that I can get up in the morning. Lately I have been successful at going to sleep around 9:30 or 10:00 PM and waking up around 4:00 AM. I get up, get a nice cup of hot tea, do my devotions, then read for a while before the sun rises. Then if I can get Chord out of bed, we would go for a morning walk before breakfast. I have found that it can be a great start of a day.
This morning was an exception, however. I woke up at 3:00 AM, but didn't get out of bed until 4:00 AM. Way too lazy today.
wink says:
Geez gr1d, on many nights during the summer (and especially pre-Spark), I was going to bed around 3 or 4 in the morning. I can't imagine getting up at that time on a regular basis.
Karin says:
Being a night person myself, having to get up at 5 am every morning to go to work was horrible. I have shifted to getting up at 7 or 8 now that I'm not working, but I remember the days when I would sleep until 9, 10, 11, or even 12. There is no way I can sleep that late anymore. At some point, my body clock shifted, and no matter how early or late I go to bed, I now wake up between 7-9 am. So what I'm saying is, give it time, and hopefully your body clock will shift itself into your new schedule and you will actually be able to function. By the way, I have to take a nap pretty much every day, but I suppose pregnancy could have something to do with that! Good luck on getting your sleep patterns shifted!