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Insomnia
posted 2006/09/03 at 19:11

These past few nights I've had the worst time of it trying to get to sleep. I don't know whether my sleep problems are being caused by a physical problem (tightness in my legs after my workouts) or mental problems (all the usual stuff there, plus worries about entering the job market soon), but it's getting to be a huge bother. Things became much worse today because we had an early-morning brownout for some unknown reason (certainly not because people are using their air conditioners), and see, when my stereo suddenly regains power after losing it, it makes the same clicking sound that it makes when it powers up on mornings when I have school, since I use the alarm feature on my stereo as my alarm clock. Hence, after the brownout, I mistakenly woke up after having gotten precious little sleep. I actually napped most of the afternoon away just now, and even after that and a tall glass of iced tea I'm still not feeling all that well.

This wouldn't be so much of a bother if it weren't for the fact that when I'm feeling as tired as this, I don't even attempt to do any studying for either my Japanese class or my MA exam because it just doesn't feel like I'll retain anything I attempt to read or learn. This will likely end up being the third day in a row here where I haven't done any learning activities, and while this is hardly a deathblow in terms of crushing my hopes of graduating this semester, it's not exactly making things easier in that regard, either.