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Day 4 - A habit that you wish you didn't have

Posted by Simon Welsh | 12 September 2010 | Comments (4)

The theme here seems to be procrastination. While it's a habit that I could do without, there's a more annoying (for me) one. Though it's actually a toss up between two, both of which have worse effects than procrastination.

The first one is not getting anywhere enough sleep. I have an alarm that goes off at 0713 each weekday and most Saturdays, so I can get to uni on time. My body is expecting about 10 hours of sleep a night, which it used to get regularly. I end up getting tired around 2030, then get un-tired around 2330 and whenever I go and try to get some sleep. This leads to me not getting to sleep until around 0130, if I'm lucky, leading to not much sleep and a Simon that leaves the house so tired I'm surprised he hasn't forgotten anything important yet.

The second one is not eating, especially on weekends. I have a rather good habit of forgetting to do this. Then it gets to dinner time, and I haven't eaten all day and am rather hungry. This showed up on Monday and Wednesday, when I had midterms starting at 1800. Midterms are annoying enough without drinking two red bulls on an empty stomach.

I can't really be bothered going into more detail. StarCraft awaits!


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  • You eat plenty :p

    Posted by Caitlin, 14/08/2012 12:21pm (9 months ago)

  • @Ilaeria But my product of two distinct primes is nicer than a multiple of 5. I find numbers like that a bit too mundane to obsess over.

    @qwandor It's been suggest that I try promethazine, though I don't think I'm that bad at the moment.

    Posted by Simon Welsh, 13/09/2010 10:30pm (3 years ago)

  • I empathise strongly with the issue of not getting enough sleep. I have the same problem. I get home from work really tired, get nothing much done in the evening, but by the time I get to bed I am wide awake and lie awake for hours tossing and turning, thinking about nothing much, then wake up before my alarm in the morning hardly rested and am half asleep most of the day. On a few occasions it gets worse and I get no sleep at all so give up and get up at 4:00 or 5:00 am and am highly productive for a few hours, but by the middle of the day completely crash. Do let me know if you find a solution.

    Posted by qwandor, 12/09/2010 11:18am (3 years ago)

  • Alarm goes off at 0713? That would drive me crazy! My alarm HAS to be on a multiple of 5, preferably a multiple of 15...If I accidentally go to, say, 0746, I will cycle all the way back through until I get to 0745. I used to have to actually get out of bed on a time that fit those requirements too, but I've managed to relax that rule a little bit and now it's only the alarm :)

    Posted by Ilaeria, 12/09/2010 10:07am (3 years ago)

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