Patricia Stoltey

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Sleep-Deprived Blogger Has Brain Fog

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I’m really tired today (Monday). Last night I came upstairs at 10:00 to do one more thing at my computer (after watching the Survivor finale), and ended up hitting the sack at 2:45 AM. As usual, the “one more thing” had turned into ten more things.

Once in bed, of course, I couldn’t fall right to sleep. Too many tasks on my mind. All good stuff, mind you, stuff I want to do, but my brain struggled to stay awake, listing and prioritizing at warp speed. I figure I slept about three and a half hours before my internal alarm woke me up. I’d forgotten to turn it off before I went to bed.

I’m writing this at 4:00 PM Monday so I can schedule it to post early Tuesday morning. Since I can’t go to bed early tonight (mustn’t miss my writer’s critique group), I plan to sleep in tomorrow. I’ll have this mental conversation with whatever part of my brain houses that internal alarm. “Tomorrow,” I’ll say, “I don’t want to get up until I’ve had at least eight hours of good sleep.” I’ll repeat that a couple of times to make sure it registers.

Brain fog makes for a very boring blog, doesn’t it?

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  3. I’ve resigned myself to being tired and dragging until the end of the month when I leave the country for a whole relaxing month! Sleep deprivation is a mind-altering experience. Hope you get some sleep tonight!

  4. Ah…sleep. I vaguely remember the concept. I think sometimes we get so busy our brains have a hard time turning off to allow us the downtime we so desperately need. Its great when you can get things planned and done ahead of time though. Good for you! Go try to get some sleep 🙂

    Nancy
    http://nasharpe.blogspot.com

  6. 2:45 am?? That’s crazy-I don’t care how many things there are to do. 🙂 By the way, I think your blog looks great. I haven’t watched the Survivor finale yet. I finally caught up with Grey’s Anatomy.

  7. No, Galen, I’m definitely not a poet. However, I still have all of the horrible stuff I wrote years and years ago. From time to time, I pull some of those poems out of a box and read them…when I need a good laugh.

    Patricia

  12. Even with brain fog, you’re writing your post ahead of time so you can schedule post it! I love that when I wake up, your blog (and there’s several other authors in the class too who work like this) already has a new entry that’s ready for me to read.