Insomnia.

oh my god it is 7 am and i am awake

I don't suffer from insomnia. I suffer from large kitten with high-pitched voice.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3476/3262872616_4094d31d6f.jpg

He's a bit much at 5.30am.

AGH

what the goddamn deal iiiiiiiiiiiiis

i had to call in sick to work today because i haven't slept in 2 days

yeah did this last week. twice-weekly football game has been cancelled and i've just stopped sleeping. i hate running but i'm gonna have to do something.

I can't sleep and haven't been able to in days. Everyone else is asleep in the world and I'm wide awake and bored. Fuck.

let's play tetris on facebook

shit, its been months since this happened but my sleep started whittling down again and now I'm not going to sleep tonight.

feelin that. had an exam yesterday so was studying from wednesday PM straight through. that'll be sleep patterns nicely fecked for a while.

i'm just paralysed by fear, I've had a shit year at college, which is great because I'm not getting that distinction i was headed for no way and now I just lie awake at night worrying about my life of regional arts administration stretching out before me. : /

Lonely girl just thinking about things. Can't sleep and it fucking sucks.

what a fuckin world

hnh. you guys are ok for a while yet- I have to go to work now.

The flask is empty, I have half a thin crust pizza left and a disc of The Wire or Alphaville to watch or Nabokov to read.

i am not nearly drunk enough for this flask to be empty

get a bigger flask young hoosteen, you're growing outta that one

so it seems!

IMO you should drop the whole flask aesthetic and go with something a little more:
http://www.thedieline.com/pentawards07/images/2009/01/03/pentawards_07_camus_platinum.jpg

omg i actually fought off a melatonin pill and am still kicking at 4am fuck this

gonna read and hope i doze before the sun comes up in 4 hours

big snooze. i've been sleeping better since my football game started again, but sleep problems are a killer.

I haven't been able to fall asleep before 4:00AM lately :(

i find the internet makes this worse.

It makes me not notice what time it is. Like I think it's 1:30 or 2:00 and I look at the clock and it's like FUCK!!

The internet totally makes it worse. The passage of time anyway. That it's 4:00am right now and I am nothing even approaching tired is um...siiiigh. :(

I'm buying sleeping pills tmr.

That compulsion thing happens to me, too. You have to smack your compulsions around and show them your the boss. Give yourself a cut-off time and get in bed NO MATTER WHAT (an exception may be made if your apartment is on fire).

lol, I was so wise pre-WoW

ugh.

SO MADDENING.

You used to work graveyard (or still do), IIRC, rabies? THAT fucks with your sleep patterns a GOOD few months. Did me, anyway.

My advice is don't be able to read the time. (I know this is difficult on a computer but OTOH you can't really compute & sleep.) If you don't know what time it is, you can't do the mental math of 'shitfudge it is 4:32 am.m; I have to get up at 9:00 a.m. – if I fell asleep RIGHT NOW I would get a useless 4 hours 28 min of sleep."I can lie and be like, 'aw, it's probably 2 a.m. AT THE LATEST, I'll get enough sleep no matter when I nod off.'

This is why I have a non-glowing digital alarm clock. When I had an old-people one w/3" all green numbers, I just threw a dishtowel over it. Just so long as I can't see the time and it's dark, I'm ok.

I mean I know there's been Nights where I HAVE lied awake 4+ hours but at least I didn't have access to empirical proof & could thus easily tell myself sleepy fibs.

Yep, I used to work the graveyard for about three and a half years, but for the past few months I've been unemployed in a foreign land. I've been finding myself slipping into the old routine of staying up for hours after everyone else goes to bed, which the stress of not finding a job hasn't made any easier. Also what doesn't help is that if I stay up late enough my gf, who is still in America, will show up online (late night here=mid/late morning over there) and I get to talk to her. So there's a reward system in place for misbehavior.

I'm gradually reversing this with sleeping pills, but I'm going to have to change some bad habits (as well as get a job) if I'm going maintain a reasonable sleeping schedule.

Ugh, I totally know the 'how much sleep will I get' game. I used to do the same thing with my alarm clock. Right now the fucker's straight up unplugged, though, which has more to do with the economy of available outlets (when you're unemployed your guitar amp gets precedent over the ability to tell time lol).

how much exercise are you getting during the day? sometimes helps to wear yourself out and then you'll sleep more easily.

Very little! Something else I need to work on as well.

It's happening again. Of course this could be due to the 10.5 hours I slept last night, the 1.5 l of diet coke I've drank so far this evening or the 100000000 thoughts racing through my brane right now. kjdgbsk.

brane racing isn't half as much fun at 3.30 am as it is on the DS lite, that's for sure.

lmao

so do i blame the five cups of coffee i drank today or the energy drink i had at midnight or the brain chatter

the sunrise is v v pretty btw

the five cups of coffee i drank today

lmao

Five cups is a staggering amount of coffee, to think I used to down that much in a single day when I worked in an office. I drink three now and my shrink told me it was too much and is driving me crazy (she's wrong, of course).

Dear Insomnia,

I hate you with the intensity of a thousand white-hot suns.

~ Erica

on my 5 am shit, always

Ugh, I hate it. Think sleep might be coming soon though. Hopefully.

i try and put on a movie

Yeah, am thinking about doing that actually. Would probably work at this point.

Am snuggled in my huge ass beanbag with a blanket, my favorite pillows and some hot chocolate. Movie is on. Let's see if this works.

HAVE YOU FALLEN ASLEEP YET OR ARE YOU STILL AWAKE

I wake up between 530 and 630 am every day. At first thought it was adjusting to time change but now it's been long enough that should be adequately adjusted. Some days I can force myself back to sleep. Some days not.

Got home from CA at midnight BST, slept until 6pm Sunday. Couldn't sleep all night, it's now 8am, I have to be at work by 10am and I'm starting to feel a little tired.

Power through!