May 31
I just want to sleep.
I have to be up at 5:45 tomorrow morning and my awareness of that is one of things keeping me wide awake.
I’ve tried all the usual methods for getting sleepy and have even taken some sleeping pills as well - two hours ago, and still… I am lucid.
I have tried counting sheep, concentrating on my breathing, adding up numbers to generate the Fibonacci sequence (I got up to 610 and realized that the numbers grow exponentially larger very quickly and that I would wake myself up even more by focusing on the mental math to get to those higher numbers), and I’ve even cried a bit to see if a lack of emotional release was keeping me awake and to let out some of the stress that insomnia causes.
While it’s not that late, it’s insomnia because I’ve taken a doubled dosage of the OTC sleeping pill and while I feel woozy, I am far from tired or able to close my eyes and drift off.
Here are some non-insomnia related bits:
I read in New York magazine that there is soon to be a Broadway musical version of “Xanadu.” I don’t think I’ll be paying money to see that, but it has prompted me to think about adding the movie to my Netflix queue since I remember practically nothing about it and I have actually seen it.
Universal Studios is forging ahead with plans to build a Harry Potter themed “park within a park” down in Orlando. It’s due to open in late 2009.
I’m going to be at BEA tomorrow, so I hope to find all kinds of exciting new books to read. I’ll be working for a portion of the day, but the rest of it will be visiting booths to check out what publishers are doing, get some free galleys/ARCs/books and generally enjoy the book love.
OK. So writing to clear things from my head and let me sleep isn’t exactly working, but perhaps the increasing wooziness is a good sign. I’m going to give it a go and plop down on my bed.
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