Yeah, I can do one night of short sleep (I am often quite chipper on 5 hours, I think it's a sleep-cycle thing) but the next night have to get 8 hours. ...perhaps it's best I don't have kids.

I need to have a lot of adrenaline pumping to keep up a schedule like that, and then I crash hard. It's not pretty at any point.

Yesterday was too easy, today my customers are all asserting their special snowflake status. Evil Bunny Alliance tea is taking the edge off, thank goodness. ETA: effectively saving me from hitting the Halloween candy, which is pretty impressive.

Ugh, I've already had two handfuls of sugar today. Not the best, self!

Edit: And by "handfuls of sugar," I mean one of candy corn and one of swedish fish.

For about a year I have been pretty strict with shutting off my computer at 10PM. I start between 6 and 7 in the morning and just had to make some kind of rule for stopping and unwinding. I still find myself slipping from time to time, but I try and remind myself that there has to be a line drawn. I still sometimes find myself reading or watching tv for an hour or two, but trying to prioritize the whole sleep time thing. It is harder than one would think. My favorite day is coming up soon. Love that extra hour, but resent losing it again in the Spring.

Poor guy.

Yeah. I need to remember that just because I'm feeling anguish about causing someone else anguish, it doesn't change the fact that the reasons behind choosing the candidate that we did are sound. Also, that what I told him was true: that he was one of the very top few candidates among 87 applicants for the job, and that it was a very tough decision. That I will gladly recommend him for other jobs and even help seek other openings out. Though all of that seems like a bunch of lies when all you're hearing is, "You didn't get the job."

Anyway, thanks. I finished the last season of K&P. I'm going to miss that show! I also got my bangs trimmed into a more severe, straight-across, symmetrical style yesterday, which were proclaimed to be "rad" by the receptionist at the hair salon. Now that my bangs are so symmetrical, I'm noticing that the rest of my face? head? is not. I'm just going to have to make peace with that.

For about a year I have been pretty strict with shutting off my computer at 10PM.

I really need to figure out how to make myself do this.

Man, I do too.

It isn't easy, but I try and remind myself that nothing is that urgent after 10 that can't wait until morning. It doesn't always work. I do have my Nook in bed, but won't read email or browse on it after 10. Only reading allowed. It helps to set limits even though my mother thinks it should be 7PM or something.

I finished up the grading a little before and was in bed by midnight and up again at 6:30.

Squish these a little closer together and you have my week. But I don't have kiddoes and such to cope with. Or a migraine. Hope you are feeling better today.

I just really need to turn off the computer/TV and get into bed at 10pm. When I do, I start getting sleepy pretty quickly. If only I could get a Wallace & Gromit contraption that would turn off everything & fling me into bed...