Insomnia.

i did 10k at gym tonight in attempt to wear myself out. it worked. i am tired. it's just that my mind starts going crazy as soon as i try to sleep.

I hate that ... there's always the alcohol technique, but the timing is key ... I'm now at the point where I'm more or less sober and wide awake.

yeah i don't want to drink anything tonight.

i give up :(

since I got a job and entered a consistent pattern my insomnia's disappeared. It's kinda disappointing, that I'd often spend four or five hours trying to get to sleep and get through the next day on two hours of unsettled sleeptime was one of the more interesting things about me.

:( ... really boring movie?

there are definitely some long ILX threads that make me tired just thinking about them, let alone reading them, but maybe that's its own thread. ... I almost posted this in the RIP Judd Apatow thread.

the 9:30 morning, i gave up and made coffee around 7:30, thinking i'd just go with it and be tired all day and then get to bed early. but then i fell asleep at 9:30 and lost all day. good times.

i made an 11am appt tomorrow, for which i need to leave by 10:15. so, whenever i go to sleep tonight... i will at least have to force myself up in the morning.

that should help, unless you're having serious anxiety issues ... the sleep deprivation sucks, but for me, I end up having next to no trouble falling asleep the next night.

it usually doesn't matter whether I sleep or not. I can get 4 hours but suddenly at 10pm
I get this second wind and then I'm up forever regardless of tiredness. I'm sure anxiety is contributing.

Lonely gal, just thinking baout things.

Is any of it due to having moved recently?

hi tehresa! (and sarahel)

sorry about the spider story. again.

Hi jody! <3

it's okay. i read something today that was worse: about a guy getting bitten by a scorpion on an airplane.

I got stung by a scorpion in my bed once but it was little and harmless. Still scary as fuck, though.

which reminds me of an idea for a movie: Alien vs. Predator vs. Snakes on a Plane. Assuming the snakes are poisonous to the alien and the Predator, how would this epic three way battle work out?

alien vs. predator vs. snakes on a plane vs. the snake whisperer (i made that last one up)

I saw a movie about zombies on a plane recently ... it wasn't very good. There was only one character I actually cared if they got eaten by zombies or not.

were you on a plane watching a movie about zombies, or were you just watching a movie about zombies that were on a plane?

the movie was called "Flight of the Living Dead" ... I was at home sitting on the couch.

omg that title

yessss

http://www.zombiejunky.com/covers/flight-of-the-living-dead-dvd-cover.jpg

trailer

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi237175577/

you just knew that the nun flying coach was gonna be zombie food, and I was kinda sad about that. I guess that was 1 1/2 characters I cared about.

Can I pls really derecommend the alcohol method? I've found it can lead to um, alcoholism. And worse sleep.

yeah the alcohol method is not the best. Reading the Zizek thread is better.

omg it's 5:00am fucking christ

I was so back on a good schedule for a while there.

too hot to sleep ughhhhh

getting to bed before 5am has been working pretty well so far, think I'm going to set a goal of 4am ...

alarm for work goes off in 1 hr X|

a problem w my insomnia is that i always end up napping in the day and/or night & it just perpetuates the cycle

God!

I couldn't sleep at all until about 04:00 last night, and still managed to wake at around 06:30

Not feeling too bad right now, but.

I got 8 hours sleep last night, but I woke up too soon after having a vivid dream - not via alarm, just woke up - and felt groggy all day. I actually remember some of the details of the dream, which is very rare for me.

aaaaaaaaaaand now i'm goin to work

lmao

RIP

it's 4:17 - DID NOT MEET GOAL

The girl I was filling in for this morning got fired after I agreed to fill in for her. Nobody called me to tell me this, so I rolled in at 6:30 after downing coffee and an energy drink totally ready to fight a war. Then they told me to go home and come back at 3.

fml

Thaaaaat blows.

I totally did the whole toss-and-turn-all-night-go-to-work thing on like my second shift at my new job. Was draggin all day, yet ppl kept telling me how fast I was! O_.

I get this second wind and then I'm up forever regardless

^^^ this. Amazingly frustrated. You go all evening shattered, looking forward to finally getting into bed and falling asleep easily ... and then it doesn't happen.

frustrating, even.

This is ridiculous.

just plain ridiculous

:-(

tbh im still @ the just got home, sorta drunk, not all tired, i wish i had somethin to eat in my apt phase of the evening

ah see I'm at the holy shit I have to get up in five hours why the hell can't I sleep phase