I was tired enough a handful of hours ago that I was nodding off while typing; Now I can’t sleep at all, and am reduced to sending blog updates to amuse myself.
Somewhere below there is a security patrol car doing a slow sad lap of the car park across the road.
Creepily, I have just noticed that the bedside light projects an image of everything on the bedside stand onto the ceiling. I can make out my US cellphone in some detail, though the TV remote is a featureless shape, as is the alarm clock radio thingy.
Part of the sleeping problem, I think, is that I’ve still got a low-grade illness going on, so there are intermittent bouts of fever, making it damn near impossible to get the bed at a comfortable temperature. I picked up some aspirin yesterday, blithely ignoring the “OMG, Asthmatics Beware!” notation on the box I might add, so I’m thinking I’ll take another one of those, try getting back to sleep, and if I’m still awake in another hour, I’ll say ‘enough’ and hit the hotel fitness centre for a while.
If I’m going to be involuntarily awake, I may as well get something out of it.
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Well, there may have been fifteen minutes or so of uninterrupted sleep in there, but overall I’d call it a failure.
Off to the gym.
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2 responses to “Day Two – Well, Jetlag Combined With Insomnia Sucks”
I am hoping that as I am writing this, having just returned from my morning swim and about to clean the fish tank, that you are fast asleep and dreaming of sheep (the electronic kind of course).
It was good to hear your luggage finally arrived, on the bright side I bet they had a porter bring it to your room so you didn’t have to lug it around.
GenCon is only 2 days away now and the withdrawal symptoms are hitting home but I guess we all have to stop going at some time.
If you have trouble sleeping just turn on one of the American soap opera channels, those drones of programmes are guaranteed to send anyone into a comatose sleep.
Take care, be well and have fun – shit I almost sound like a modern day sensible Timothy Leary. Oh well the fish are calling me ……….
I did catch an episode of Doomsday Preppers, about ten minutes of a show about a total nutcase who’s forcing his family to help finish his survivalist castle, and WAY too many episodes of a show about a collectible & antique oddities shop in San Francisco.
Ahhhh, Television!