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I'm drawing a blank on what's going on anywhere in my life. The only thing worse than trying to write one of these things just after waking up is doing it just before falling asleep. Well, I suppose doing it just after falling asleep would be worse still.
Self-Assessment
Yesterday my leg was very iffy, due to the bout of cramping I had the day before. You ever get the kind of nocturnal leg cramp where something in the back of your leg spasms and you end up with what feels like a knot the size of a golf ball in your calf? They're sometimes called "charley horses", but there's another sort of leg injury that also goes by that name. I'm sort of intermittently prone to those, and they don't always happen when I'm asleep. The worst part about them is the whole thing, but the second worst part about them is that they leave the tissue there feeling all torn afterwards. I know how to deal with them, though. It's better today. I'm only mentioning it here so I have a record, since I didn't post yesterday.
Yesterday was also a nice inadvertent experiment in whether or not my streak of somnia (as opposed to the in-variety) would be disrupted if something happened to utterly fuck my sleep schedule. The answer: no. I slept okay, just at a really odd time, even for me. Like noon to after eight, maybe. I did try to get my sleep schedule back on track today, but I didn't try very hard... there was DC Universe Online to be checked out.
Today? Well, physically fine. Mentally fine. My sleep schedule is still in a kind of inconvenient place. As in, I'm just starting to get sleepy now, which is a little under 24 hours from when I fell asleep yesterday. This means when I wake up my choices are going to be go online if I want to be able to talk to Jack at all today, or wake up and start writing furiously immediately in order to get a chapter up before midnight. I think I'm going to do the former, and then do my writing after he goes to bed, and then try to go to sleep myself sometime more morningly.
Dreams From Last Night
I don't recall any, but you may be interested to know that right now my brain is reassembling all the random background noise (computer fans, heater, etc.) into the voice of a radio broadcaster announcing a football game in another room. Auditory hallucinations are nature's way of telling you to go to sleep.
Random Link
The Ray-Gun Revolution, a D&D Gamma World adventure by Caoimhe Ora Snow. The in-jokes and references in it are hilarious, if you're old enough or historically inclined enough to be familiar with the era being invoked. Her blog is full of Gamma World content, including homages to Knight Rider and Doctor Who.
Plans For Today
Covered that upstream, I think. I'm going to go fall down.
I'm drawing a blank on what's going on anywhere in my life. The only thing worse than trying to write one of these things just after waking up is doing it just before falling asleep. Well, I suppose doing it just after falling asleep would be worse still.
Self-Assessment
Yesterday my leg was very iffy, due to the bout of cramping I had the day before. You ever get the kind of nocturnal leg cramp where something in the back of your leg spasms and you end up with what feels like a knot the size of a golf ball in your calf? They're sometimes called "charley horses", but there's another sort of leg injury that also goes by that name. I'm sort of intermittently prone to those, and they don't always happen when I'm asleep. The worst part about them is the whole thing, but the second worst part about them is that they leave the tissue there feeling all torn afterwards. I know how to deal with them, though. It's better today. I'm only mentioning it here so I have a record, since I didn't post yesterday.
Yesterday was also a nice inadvertent experiment in whether or not my streak of somnia (as opposed to the in-variety) would be disrupted if something happened to utterly fuck my sleep schedule. The answer: no. I slept okay, just at a really odd time, even for me. Like noon to after eight, maybe. I did try to get my sleep schedule back on track today, but I didn't try very hard... there was DC Universe Online to be checked out.
Today? Well, physically fine. Mentally fine. My sleep schedule is still in a kind of inconvenient place. As in, I'm just starting to get sleepy now, which is a little under 24 hours from when I fell asleep yesterday. This means when I wake up my choices are going to be go online if I want to be able to talk to Jack at all today, or wake up and start writing furiously immediately in order to get a chapter up before midnight. I think I'm going to do the former, and then do my writing after he goes to bed, and then try to go to sleep myself sometime more morningly.
Dreams From Last Night
I don't recall any, but you may be interested to know that right now my brain is reassembling all the random background noise (computer fans, heater, etc.) into the voice of a radio broadcaster announcing a football game in another room. Auditory hallucinations are nature's way of telling you to go to sleep.
Random Link
The Ray-Gun Revolution, a D&D Gamma World adventure by Caoimhe Ora Snow. The in-jokes and references in it are hilarious, if you're old enough or historically inclined enough to be familiar with the era being invoked. Her blog is full of Gamma World content, including homages to Knight Rider and Doctor Who.
Plans For Today
Covered that upstream, I think. I'm going to go fall down.
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muscle cramps
on 2011-01-12 09:03 pm (UTC)Re: muscle cramps
on 2011-01-13 01:44 am (UTC)I haven't found a way to keep my leg from reminding me that it had things flexing in ways they weren't meant to be flexed for a day or so afterwards, but this makes it better.
Prevention is best, and that can be as simple as eating more potassium, though that's not a sure-fire thing.
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on 2011-01-13 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-01-13 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-01-13 02:43 pm (UTC)My sleep has been 'confused' for several years now. I don't drive anymore because I caught myself several times starting to fall asleep behind the wheel even if I'd only just gotten up a couple hours beforehand after a full night of sleep. I've been to a sleep lab about that, found out I've got obstructive sleep apnea (fairly severe) to the degree that I stop breathing about 48 times an hour, sometimes for up to almost a whole minute at a time.