The prettiest boat that you've ever seen

[sovay]

So I didn't sleep for the last two and a half days, with the result that by evening yesterday I was mentally useless in the extreme. I took a brief walk with spatch and caught a very clear southwestern view of the departing conjunction, stared at half of We're No Angels (1955) on TCM, and fell over just after midnight. I estimate that I was asleep by one in the morning. I woke up like a shot at six. After lying in the dark for two hours watching the light come in around the edges of the curtains, I got up. I am still perceptibly tired, but no longer approaching the vegetative. And since then I have fed the cats, drunk a glass of orange juice, and made myself breakfast, which I almost never eat. I'm not sure if I have actually reset my schedule or if my circadian rhythms are just confused to the point where my body thinks we just had dinner, in which case the grilled cheese sandwich with roast beef makes perfect sense, but at the waning end of this our hellscape 2020, I'll take it. It's beautifully sunny outside, frost-snap bright. If it weren't below freezing with a pandemic on, I'd go for a walk.

Comments

[sara]

My own sleep schedule is so off this last week or so. Too much darkness, of all kinds, I think.

[sovay]

My own sleep schedule is so off this last week or so. Too much darkness, of all kinds, I think.

*hugs*

My sleep schedule has been borked for decades, but this year it's just been ridiculous.

[sara]

Even on days when I'm outside for all the daylight like I was yesterday! I can understand why I'm insomniac at the summer solstice but surely in winter it should be the other way round.

[julian]

Are you not a breakfast person because eating just after you've woken up makes your stomach upset?

(Also, sympathies on the sleep thing. At least you got a conjunction moment, though. And dancing stars.)

[oracne]

Yay conjunction!

[davidgillon]

Ugh, I've had a few sleep patterns like that recently. I suppose at least the few hours sleep does stop that horribly sick feeling that comes on about the 40 hour mark, but I'm sure we'd both prefer a few hours more.

And I've just had a cheese sandwich, but grilled and with roast beef is making me hungry again!

[sovay]

Are you not a breakfast person because eating just after you've woken up makes your stomach upset?

Partly. Eating at any time of day can make my stomach upset (or just cause me a lot of pain, which is more usual), but I am never hungry on waking and I don't like most conventional breakfast foods. I have to eat for a set of my medications, however, so for years I have shotgunned rice cakes with peanut butter on them and that sort of thing, which I still hate.

(Also, sympathies on the sleep thing. At least you got a conjunction moment, though. And dancing stars.)

Thank you. That was nice!

[sovay]

Yay conjunction!

It was good to see!

[sovay]

I suppose at least the few hours sleep does stop that horribly sick feeling that comes on about the 40 hour mark, but I'm sure we'd both prefer a few hours more.

Profoundly. Godspeed.

And I've just had a cheese sandwich, but grilled and with roast beef is making me hungry again!

I don't think there's a law against two cheese sandwiches in the same day!

[julian]

"...I don't like most conventional breakfast foods..."

I have both some waking-up stomach uncertainty, and also a dislike of a lot of conventional breakfast foods. I solved the second part of the problem, for a long time, by just having lunch foods for breakfast.

(But the pain never helps anything.)

[pameladean]

I can't eat breakfast at breakfast time either. I usually have some yogurt with my medication and then eat something resembling a meal when my digestive system announces that I am starving. This set of necessary habits is inconvenient for conventions or any kind of morning appointment.

I love all conventional breakfast foods and would gladly take your entire share off your hands and give you something you like better in exchange. But conventional breakfast foods do NOT love me.

P.

[choco_frosh]

Boo, lack of sleep!
Yay, sleep! Even if not enough sleep!

[gwynnega]

I'm glad you got some sleep and that you got to see the conjunction!

(I saw We're No Angels for the first time last weekend.)

[sovay]

Yay, sleep! Even if not enough sleep!

Thank you!

[sovay]

I solved the second part of the problem, for a long time, by just having lunch foods for breakfast.

In high school, my mother used to shove a bowl of ramen in me before sending me out to catch the bus.

(But the pain never helps anything.)

I quite like food in general! But my relationship with it has been sufficiently complicated by my body that at this point I feel I deserve credit for not developing an eating disorder.

[ashlyme]

Hope tonight's kinder on you. I rarely eat breakfast now - Marmite on toast is usually all I can stomach in the morning.

[ethelmay]

I am a hobbit in all but size, and have been eating all y'all's breakfasts. I wish I could lend out my digestion.

[sovay]

I'm glad you got some sleep and that you got to see the conjunction!

Thank you! I am going to try for at least more sleep tonight.

(I saw We're No Angels for the first time last weekend.)

I saw it more than once as a child and had really fond memories, which as far as I can tell were justified, especially by Peter Ustinov.

[sovay]

Hope tonight's kinder on you. I rarely eat breakfast now - Marmite on toast is usually all I can stomach in the morning.

Thank you. I think there are just breakfast people and then there are not.

[sovay]

I am a hobbit in all but size, and have been eating all y'all's breakfasts. I wish I could lend out my digestion.

I appreciate the thought!

[sovay]

But conventional breakfast foods do NOT love me.

That is unfair in the extreme.

(How do unconventional breakfast foods treat you?)