I love my bed with deep deep devotion. I am a girl who adores sleeping, who considers it highly offensive to be told, “Get up! You’ve gotten enough sleep already!” [thus saith Mom, early high school years]. All Lawton kids seemed to go through the same stage during our teen years… we slept. And slept. And slept as if sleep could somehow ease our bodies through that transition from adolescence to adulthood. I think of various sheets and blankets with great fondness as they have contributed to peaceful, comfortable sleep situations in my life (the latest of which is my delicious down comforter and cream-colored duvet cover).
It is with great disgust that I have not slept well in at least two weeks. It is with much dismay that I find myself surfing, blogging!!, in the wee hours of the morn. ARGH! My formerly delightful bed has turned into an object of great discomfort and I cannot stand to spend more than a few hours at a time in it (sob!). This sleep-interruption is perhaps the worst symptom of my current arthritic state. Give me the aches, the limping, the endless pain medications and almost constant emotional frustration, but mess with my sleep? Eeeeeevil. So very wrong.
It is now 5:00am at the CNN Headquarters. Apparently today is the 5th anniversary of the Columbine shootings — so very sad. Everyone’s talking about Bob Woodward’s new book and the defensive position the Bush Administration is in and how Bush and Kerry are faring in the latest polls. Yesterday’s 3:00am CNN coverage of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People was much more interesting than this… Oooh. Drowsiness is setting in. Muscles have relaxed a bit. It’s time for Night Rest, take 2. Goodnight, sweet blogging world. May God bless you with 7-8 uninterrupted hours of sleep.
4 Comments
Bethany Apr 20, 2004 8:17 AM
Oh man. I feel for you. There’s nothing I hate more than a night of interrupted sleep. Whether it was last night, where I found myself still wide awake after 2 am due to the caffeine-laden granita I thought it’d be a good idea to drink at 10 pm, or one of those nights where I wake up every two hours…it all sucks. I’m sorry you’re having such a hard time sleeping.
All this sleeping talk is not making getting up and going to class this morning very easy. :)
rt Apr 20, 2004 11:55 AM
a few nights ago i was stunned when i couldn’t fall asleep until 4am. apparently a huge diet pepsi (with caffeine of course) at 8pm was to blame. what happened to the days where i could down a mtn dew at 10pm and still go to bed???
b, sorry about the early class. a huge blessing for me right now is that i can sleep ALL morning long… and i did. just got up. : )
bethany Apr 20, 2004 2:22 PM
It’s actually been really good for me to have 9:30 classes every morning. I know that’s not really early by normal standards, but since I shower in the morning, it requires being up around 8 every morning, which is early to me. I’ve always been a night person, far preferring to stay up until 3 am and sleep until 11:30. But both my schedule this semester and rooming with a morning person have forced me to get into the habit of being in bed by 12 and up at 8, a habit I found difficult to shake even over spring break. Much as I love being up late, there’s something really nice about having the entire day stretching before you at 8 am, rather than just the last half of it when you wake up at noon. :)
rt Apr 20, 2004 4:28 PM
absolutely. i love the days when i feel like i’ve accomplished loads of work by noon! really, it makes more sense to be up and active when the majority of other people are… still, for the night owls (like you and jeremy), it can be a challenge.