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.

[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!

[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.)

[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.