That Time of the Month
14/08/06 02:50 ::
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An attempt at a humorous title — sleeplessness
involves grumpiness, physical weakness, and a general
feeling of disorientation.
Lie on your side and watch the time pass on the
cheap, white clock with the nightmarish alarm sound
— set for the time when your significant other
is supposed to go to work. Forget
your work, you'll be in
zombie mode 'til one o'clock in the afternoon when
you finally manage to find that right position (if
you ever do), only to wake up around dinnertime
knowing that by falling asleep you've sentenced
yourself to another night of sleeplessness.
Author Chuck Palahniuk put it this way:
Although the story's protagonist was describing a 2 year period of insomnia, it sums it up quite nicely for single nights as well. Once it's past 5am, you've usually spent your last drops of energy and desperately flip through your DVD collection to find a movie boring enough to fall asleep over. When you're a movie fanatic, however, you usually don't purchase movies you find boring — so this attempt is doomed from the start. Besides, you don't want to spoil the best movies by watching them too often.
It's not all doom and gloom, sometimes you'll catch a creative streak. Oddly enough, this seems to be a documented phenomena amongst us humans. If I were to go through my black books I'd probably find that most of the ideas are written after 11pm. Looking for a reference for this phenomena now, I came upon this page, Creative Insomnia — which seems to aim at inducing insomnia for creative purposes. They also have some products to help you sleep — one of which I thought was particularly entertaining:
It sounds like a fan? Why not just buy a fan
then?
There's a certain feeling of peace in knowing that the city sleeps.
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Author Chuck Palahniuk put it this way:
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Although the story's protagonist was describing a 2 year period of insomnia, it sums it up quite nicely for single nights as well. Once it's past 5am, you've usually spent your last drops of energy and desperately flip through your DVD collection to find a movie boring enough to fall asleep over. When you're a movie fanatic, however, you usually don't purchase movies you find boring — so this attempt is doomed from the start. Besides, you don't want to spoil the best movies by watching them too often.
It's not all doom and gloom, sometimes you'll catch a creative streak. Oddly enough, this seems to be a documented phenomena amongst us humans. If I were to go through my black books I'd probably find that most of the ideas are written after 11pm. Looking for a reference for this phenomena now, I came upon this page, Creative Insomnia — which seems to aim at inducing insomnia for creative purposes. They also have some products to help you sleep — one of which I thought was particularly entertaining:
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There's a certain feeling of peace in knowing that the city sleeps.
If I use a word you don't recognize, put your mouse-pointer over the word, and while holding down Ctrl+Apple, press 'D'. This will bring up a dictionary-entry for the abstruse word.
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