Man, I have to tell you, I am in the middle of the WORST insomnia I have ever had. And I have had some pretty spectacular insomnia in the last few years. Show up at work at 4am because I'm just THAT BORED kind of insomnia. I come by it naturally, of course, as my Mom sleeps about as well as I do on average. She said once that she was well into adulthood before she realized that some people actually sleep through the night. Like, really? You don't wake up AT ALL? Not even to eat peanuts and make a grocery list at two in the morning? Huh.
Anyway, as a fellow never-slept-through-the-night person, I long ago resigned myself to the fact that I will always be a bad sleeper and I will periodically have near deadly bouts of insomnia. Generally I can deal. But oh, this particular one might just do me in. Because I am obsessive and have far too much time on my hands, I have a nice little tracking spreadsheet that tells me I have slept a grand total of 22 hours in the last seven nights. For those not mathematically gifted, that averages to around three hours and ten minutes per night. And honestly about a third of that came in the form of naps over the weekend. I am currently grabbing sleep whenever I think I can manage in hopes of not completely losing my damn mind from being awake so much. Last night I only slept for an hour and a half. And that is WITH sleep medication. If my wife were in town I'd be resorting to the cast-iron-skillet-to-the-head method of getting to sleep, but my aim isn't good enough to try that on my own; I'd probably just end up taking out one of the cats.
At any rate, at least I am getting a lot of stuff done before I die from insomnia. In the last week I have accomplished the following, all between the hours of 11pm and 4am:
01. Baked blueberry muffins
02. Talked to the cats about life
03. Played 8,821 games of Set on my iPhone
04. Washed many loads of laundry
05. Cleaned the apartment, including dusting the ceiling fans
06. Updated every program on my computer that needed updating
07. Cleaned out my messenger bags
08. Studied for my upcoming final exam
09. Played many hours of The Sims
10. Re-organized my craft room
11. Hemmed pants
12. Wrote this post
I'm running out of ideas. I think next I might organize the hall closet or something.
If anyone wants to come over and thwack me over the head with a cast iron skillet, I'd appreciate it.
