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I found myself in quite an interesting predicament last night/this morning, about 3:30 am.
A) I was still awake.
B) My body was very clear about having no desire to go to sleep.
C) I had to wake up early to go to a meeting at work.
D) I was still awake.
So, what did I do? I browsed my blogosphere, reading archives and backtracking through links. I wrote a couple of (lengthy) emails to friends. I found a couple of new blogs and I wandered around Wikipedia for a while. Hours passed, my eyelids did not get droopy. Another hour passed, I realized I would be waking up soon and should probably get to sleep at some point before that blasted alarm clock went off. But still, not sleepy. This usually only happens to me when I drink Dr. Pepper, or am really stressed out. I guess I knew that there was some unusual stress in my life – but why suddenly losing sleep over it? Why not on, say, Friday or Saturday night when I didn’t have to wake up at the butt-crack of dawn the next day? Or, maybe ANY day when I didn’t have a meeting to attend the next morning? (Meeting went fine – I was not a participant and thus it would not be adding to stress levels). And here’s the most frustrating part about all of this: I. Am. Not. Tired. WHAT? Yes, I had very little sleep last night, and I don’t feel it at all. This is a girl who usually is half-zombie without a solid 9.5 hours of beauty rest – so what’s the deal? All of a sudden I can’t sleep AND I don’t need to sleep? What the hell? Seriously, this is messed up. My brain is telling me that I’d much rather be curled up in bed, snoozing and flipping through fashion magazines. My body says “Hey, it’s morning! Let’s go running or something!” My body NEVER wants to go running and NEVER is excited about the morning…something is wrong. I’m not sure what, but it’s really annoying. I hate this shift to “morning person” and I hate that I have no control over it! Grrrrr…. Here’s hoping that tonight around 8:30 I will suddenly crash from this obscure adrenaline high and crawl into bed for a solid 10 hours… ah, doesn’t that just sound lovely? Mmmm… yes, here’s hoping.
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What is strange is I was not tired last night either – and I tossed and turned all night. Must be a change in the cosmo’s or something. And I’m not tired right now – will probably do some physical activity.
Comment by Andrea Jolene 2007 April 11 @ 10:59 amthat is bizarre! something tells me that you are going to hit a wall very soon…I just hope it’s at the end of the day!
Comment by janet 2007 April 11 @ 12:48 pmYou’re making me sleepy. Hope you have better luck tonight!
Comment by Angela 2007 April 11 @ 9:04 pmI need some of your energy, woman!
I sleep for hours and am STILL tired!
Comment by alyndabear 2007 April 11 @ 10:02 pm