Replenished
June 9th, 2004 by Sarin
Last night I barely slept. I was up alot later than I should have been, about 12:40 I think, and I got caught up with blogging crap, but that story comes later. I have been working, so my body should naturally be tired, but.. I just couldn’t sleep. It was the first night of the summer where I put my fan on while I was sleeping. For all you kiddies who don’t know I sleep in the upstairs of my house. And the upstairs is mostly hotand it will continue to stay hot all summer. With the fan on, I either stay asleep easier (less noise distractoin), or have a hard time getting to ‘asleep’ because I am tossing and turning. Eventually I got to some sleep. One major long nap.
I woke up and the clock was 2:40am. My mind, didn’t stop thinking. I wasn’t daydreaming, night-dreaming, REM dreaming or anything. It was just… thinking. You know, the thinking when you have nothing else to do. The thinking that while waiting in a waiting room, you come across a thought and wished the dentist would get back to you later because he caught you in mid thinking. Excuse the bad english for a moment.
At 3:30 I took the initiative to finally get up and check on my blog. I knew it wasn’t going to move or do anything, but it’s what I do when I get bored. All the time. So I drank some water, read some away messages, hacked around on the web and then heard my brother’s alarm go off. His snooze habit would continue for about another hour so I figured it was time again for me to try to go back to bed. It didn’t help. I laid there, still in deep thought…about nothing. I don’t even really remember getting to a point. It was just a loop.
By 5:15, my brother had left for work, and the sun rose in my room. It wasn’t going to get darker until it the sun starts its way down, so I woke up. I turned on the light in my room and went towards the books I packed away from college. I picked up 2 Rolling Stone issues and read and read. I was reading stuff that was only 5 months ago, but now seems so old. I even got really excited about reading 4 pages of Paris Hilton (that’s right, 4 Rolling Stone pages of Paris Hilton!). In fact, I had so much fun I hated the idea of having to actually wake up soon and go to work. I wanted to continue reading and reading.
I was well aware of why I couldn’t sleep well. My batteries were fully recharged. I haven’t had personal vacation time since….proabably last summer because I worked alot during winter break. It was an indication that I slept away all the sleep I didn’t get in the past semester, and now it’s probably time to start breaking that body back in. This situation has happened before. My first winter break form college, I slept 15 hours on Christmas day. It was my first Christmas, and it was real depressing when I was unable to go online since that break you miss your new found college friends the most. That happened, but every other day I was legitimately waking up at 5, showering, and then going out and doing night stuff. And then I hit a wall and couldn’t sleep for a whole day. On that winter break, I played video games, watched a movie or something, but I knew I had run into the same situation when the next school break came. On Winter break of my junior year, I read most of “The Fellowship of The Ring” in the one night when I couldn’t sleep (getting through that council chapter is a real doozy). The next break I finished most of the first Harry Potter book. I also didn’t choose to take a nap and just rode the whole day out.
So now full aware that my fun time was over, I turned off the light in my room (it was no longer dark) and went downstairs. It was still early quite around 6:15. I took my time getting ready for work, went to work, and have been awake ever since. I don’t actually feel I need to nap anytime soon.
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