F*ck!!
And Other Stuff I'll Never Get To Do ;^PHeh, don't mind me. Haven't slept in *counts uncertainly* 30 hours? More than 24.
Fun fact: I am NOT a nice person without my sleep.
F*ck this anyway. Here's a look at my nights for the past week: struggle with my fic (which is always
going nowhere, but never seems to actually get there--yes, for the sleepless that counts as a joke...) stay up til midnight 'cause it's about the only time I can chat on the Net without someone underfoot, and anyway I have nothing better to do. Amble off to "bed" by 12:30 or 1 AM.
This is where it gets fun. Lying in bed trying to unwind from the constant background tension, counting backwards from ten like the dumb sucker on some shrink's ninety-dollar-an-hour couch, getting nowhere fast. That one hour becomes a forever-like stretch of irritating numbness that promises, but never delivers, sleep.
2 AM: the cats fight. I mean those rolling-across-the-floor, banging-into-walls fights, the kind accompanied by little dustclouds in Cartoonland. All hope of rest is now completely gone. At least they're both declawed...
2:30 AM: mother and boarder, both of whom are still very much awake, bickering loudly about the cats. Wince, since neither of them have been declawed.
3 AM: stare at the ceiling. Wish for headphones, but cannot drag oneself out of bed to go downstairs.
4 AM: get up, turn on the light. Pick up the most unappealing book you can find, in hope that boredom will make you sleep, the way it does in movies. No such luck.
4:30 AM: realize that Lynda Van Devanter's
Home Before Morning: The True Story of an Army Nurse In Vietnam is NOT light reading. Turn the light off and try for sleep again.
5:00 AM: Eyes are still open, as if eyelashes had been glued to forehead. Keep seeing napalm victims, multi-frag-wound-sufferers, septic cases and the like every time you shut your eyes, you silly overimaginative git. Note that knowing it's your imagination does not keep you from jerking fully awake in startlement every 30 seconds, afterimages of triage victims following you everywhere.
6:00 AM: Your body is so tired that your steps are weaving and unsteady, but your mind will--not--turn--off. Grunting grouchily to yourself, grab Juno Reactor's
Shango on your way downstairs.
6:15 AM: Make yourself useful by starting a load of laundry and putting coffee on.
6:35 AM: To the opening chords of "Pistolero", begin your morning Internet rounds.
All this because I decided 48 hours ago that taking a capsule of
melatonin every single night for the last two weeks in a row might not be the best idea I've ever had and that I might want to cut back or something. F*CK! Why the hell did I start taking it so often anyway?
Simple: the stress. I'm not good with stress, have I mentioned that? I have a weakness in my stomach-lining that's been there since I was nine, the doctor kept calling it a "borderline ulcer", whatever that means or whether or not there's any such thing. That was stress-induced, too. Note that I'm too exhausted to smile in self-depreciation just now. I'm laughing on the inside. Honest. ^^;
The sooner this woman gets out of my house and takes her devil animals with her, and the sooner Tenchi comes out alive from the hospital (sure it's only minor surgery, but I'm freaked, OK? He's my brother for D'hete's sakes!), the sooner I'll be myself or someone like me again. F*CK! Why am I telling you this?
*At the top of her virtual lungs*
F*CK F*CK F*CKITY-F*CK! *Blinks at the above, and begins giggling deleriously*
G'night, folks. Or Good morning.
Home Before Morning. Huh. It has a ring to it :^D
Now if I could just get some sleep....
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