10 reasons why insomnia sucks
Jan. 9th, 2003 05:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousme1- My cats seem to be able to sleep 23 hours a day. I am jealous. They are currently snuggled up to each other right next to my computer.
2- Buying things on Amazon.com without being sure if that's what I really was looking for. Been trying to find a book on urban wicca, and I think it's called "City Magick" but I'm not sure. Was going to wait for Firewillow to wake up and ask her, but that's *checks watch* at least three hours away. And it was longer when I ordered the book.
3- Canned pineapple. I like it as a rule, but something about having that kind of snack at 4:30am seems wrong somehow.
4- Nobody online to talk to.
5- Knowing the rest of the day is pretty much shot because I'm going to be an exhausted wreck.
6- Overtired, overstressed and on the verge of tears because of it.
7- Far too much time on my hands to think. This is always bad.
8- No television.
9- Fighting off random urges to clean apartment, which would only make noise and annoy the neighbours.
10- Breakfast waaaaaay too early in the morning.
I retooled all the text in my LiveJournal, because I'm sick and tired of labelling myself a corporate drone. If I have the energy I will go and change my userinfo page as well.
Maybe I'll try to think of a plot for a novel to write. Of course, all the novels I wrote before were so damned awful (well, they were pretty good if you consider they were written by a not-so-well-read teenager who was at least trying to avoid Angst, to my credit) that I'm not sure where to start. I don't think I've actually ever written a novel in which the plot made sense or in which the characters were well-developed or plausible.
Hey! There are lots of actual writers who read this LJ (griffen and kimberly_a spring to mind). Any tips for an aspiring yet untrained novelist? (other than to use spellcheck regularly and to proofread, obviously, and to avoid the overuse of parentheses ^_-)
I am trying to find an HTML colour code for a really pale yellow for my LJ page background, but they all seem to come out much darker. Am feeling thwarted.
:::edit:::
So, apart from slightly altering the look of my LiveJournal, I also went ahead and wrote a lengthy new bio for my userinfo page
It's now 10 minutes past seven. I'm actually kind of tired. I may try to catch an hour or so of sleep before officially beginning my day.
2- Buying things on Amazon.com without being sure if that's what I really was looking for. Been trying to find a book on urban wicca, and I think it's called "City Magick" but I'm not sure. Was going to wait for Firewillow to wake up and ask her, but that's *checks watch* at least three hours away. And it was longer when I ordered the book.
3- Canned pineapple. I like it as a rule, but something about having that kind of snack at 4:30am seems wrong somehow.
4- Nobody online to talk to.
5- Knowing the rest of the day is pretty much shot because I'm going to be an exhausted wreck.
6- Overtired, overstressed and on the verge of tears because of it.
7- Far too much time on my hands to think. This is always bad.
8- No television.
9- Fighting off random urges to clean apartment, which would only make noise and annoy the neighbours.
10- Breakfast waaaaaay too early in the morning.
I retooled all the text in my LiveJournal, because I'm sick and tired of labelling myself a corporate drone. If I have the energy I will go and change my userinfo page as well.
Maybe I'll try to think of a plot for a novel to write. Of course, all the novels I wrote before were so damned awful (well, they were pretty good if you consider they were written by a not-so-well-read teenager who was at least trying to avoid Angst, to my credit) that I'm not sure where to start. I don't think I've actually ever written a novel in which the plot made sense or in which the characters were well-developed or plausible.
Hey! There are lots of actual writers who read this LJ (griffen and kimberly_a spring to mind). Any tips for an aspiring yet untrained novelist? (other than to use spellcheck regularly and to proofread, obviously, and to avoid the overuse of parentheses ^_-)
I am trying to find an HTML colour code for a really pale yellow for my LJ page background, but they all seem to come out much darker. Am feeling thwarted.
:::edit:::
So, apart from slightly altering the look of my LiveJournal, I also went ahead and wrote a lengthy new bio for my userinfo page
It's now 10 minutes past seven. I'm actually kind of tired. I may try to catch an hour or so of sleep before officially beginning my day.
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Yurgh
Date: 2003-01-09 05:07 am (UTC)Start when you're on a roll, and have been sleeping well for a few days in a row, and add a bedtime ritual that you can keep up. For me, having a glass of warm milk really works well. If you keep it up when you're sleeping well, your body starts to associate the ritual with sleeping well, and doing whatever the trigger is should theoretically should push you into sleeping when you'd otherwise be staying awake. Plus, warm milk has some sort of chemical soporific effect, somewhat akin to reading math textbooks. ;)
Books and Cats
Date: 2003-01-09 05:43 am (UTC)Re book search - there is a book called City Magick (http://www.kittsdream.com/Books/city%20magick.htm) not sure of the quality. Also, on same subject area Urban Pagan (http://www.witchvox.com/books/bk_detail.html?id=23), out of print but probably still obtainable and Urban Primitive (http://www.witchvox.com/books/bk_detail.html?id=110).
Cats are amazing for the amount of time they sleep. I also am jealous...
no subject
Date: 2003-01-09 07:03 am (UTC)i am so not looking forward to that when classes start.
i have heard that milk can help you fall asleep because of something that's in it. my mom (who's a nurse--as if that gives her tons of credentials) told me that.