Gonna be a looooooooooooong day.

[truepenny]

June 10th, 10:30 p.m. Truepenny goes to bed, crabby, overheated, and creatively blocked (hence the crabby); lies reading Year of the Griffin because it makes no demands of any kind and is pleasantly soothing. Manages to write one sentence in Ch. 6: 14 words.

11:20 p.m. Mirrorthaw comes to bed; vague, silly conversation. Mirrorthaw and Truepenny lie in bed reading.

11:30 p.m. Hottentots running amok in the music industry outside bedroom window.

11:45 p.m. Hottentots go to run amok elsewhere; more vague, silly conversation.

June 11th, 12:00 a.m. Mirrorthaw and Truepenny turn out lights and attempt to sleep. Mirrorthaw succeeds, lucky bastard. Truepenny jolted back from almost being asleep at least twice by people with inconsiderately noisy car engines.

12:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. Patchy sleep, weird dreams.

4:30 a.m. In bathroom for obvious reasons, Truepenny kills crawly thing with too many legs; comes back to bed to discover Mirrorthaw also not sleeping well, and now concerned over his wife's nocturnal adventures. Even vaguer and sillier conversation; Mirrorthaw and Truepenny go back to sleep.

5:30 a.m. Truepenny awake for NO DAMN REASON AT ALL.

6:40 a.m. Truepenny awakened by one squirrel giving another squirrel a piece of its mind ... you guessed it, right outside the bedroom window. Gives in, gets up.

8:00 a.m. Truepenny, composing this entry, thinks longingly of a nap.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Tuck, tuck

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I did go back to bed, only to be woken, ironically, by a friend wanting advice on a seventeenth-century poetry syllabus.

But an hour and a half more sleep is better than not.

Yick.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Well, perhaps an afternoon nap. *g*

BTDT -

[persimmon.livejournal.com]

And telling yourself to go to sleep, dammit, it won't be this in the morning, is of no use whatsoever.

Can I offer you a cup of tea, commiserations, and possibly a chocolate chip cookie?

Re: BTDT -

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Tea is a good idea.

BTDT?

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[persimmon.livejournal.com]

Grin -

been there, done that!

I was up at 5.00 this morning, for no good reason ... well, other than to feed the cat who feels that as soon as someone is vertical, it's breakfast time.

So, would you rather have regular tea, or Earl Grey?

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[truepenny.livejournal.com]

*lightbulb goes on*

Did I mention that I don't function up to par on less than eight hours of sleep?

And my preferred tea is actually decaf green. [long, boring explanation of Truepenny's health problems not inserted here, because who the fuck cares?] Which I am drinking now, since your comment inspired me to put the kettle on. You have done your good deed for the day. *g*

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[persimmon.livejournal.com]

I'm tentatively guessing that the caffeine bothers you, and also noting in passing that green tea is supposed to be good for you on a number of levels.

I'm sorry about the health problems, which can cause ongoing aarrgghitude - I've got a couple myself: if you'd like to talk about that which precludes a large mug of black tea, I'd be happy to listen, and my email address is on my userinfo page, should you prefer that.

And a small giggle - it's been years since anyone used the "good deed for the day" line to me - shades of my Girl Guide days!

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[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I appreciate that very much.

But when I say it's boring, I mean I'm bored by it. Short version, yes, caffeine intolerance brought about by my not quite developing ulcers as a sophomore in college and subsequent and ongoing chronic dyspepsia. Same reason I drink little to no alcohol. Decaf green tea actually has enough caffeine in it to give me raging insomnia if I drink it at night, and therefore enough to make me slightly more alert during the day, but not enough to cause other problems. Which is good.

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[persimmon.livejournal.com]

Um. At the risk of being accused of perpetrating net diagnosis, which is notoriously wildly inaccurate, may I ask if you have been tested for h.pylorii? It is implicated as causative factor in both ulcers and chronic dyspepsia - if you try putting those terms into google, you'll find a fair amount of corroborative evidence.

It's always possible that all this has been done already, of course, but I thought I should mention it just on the offchance.

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[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. More than once, even.

But thank you. Because if I hadn't been, I would need to know about it.

[libskrat]

The Goth-kitties, two mornings in a row, have decided that they WILL be fed between four and five-thirty in the morning, and that the proper way to announce this necessity is to get onto the bureau at the foot of the bed and then jump down directly onto my legs.

They're good jumpers. They could miss my legs if they wanted to. Clearly they don't want to.

After the third heavy impact this morning, about 5:20, I shut them out of the bedroom, and I didn't feed them until I was good and ready to get up (well, not really, but I had to go to work, so...).

Yawning a bit myself, in other words.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Ah, the cunning wee bastards.

And not a good way to wake up either. *commisery*