If I were smart, I'd take advantage of being up to do some work. There are two projects taking up space on the desk with mid-November deadlines, and so far I seem to be doing a fine job of ignoring both. One is a grant application I volunteered to write for a local nonprofit. The instructions that came with the form were perhaps the vaguest I've ever seen for a funding opportunity. Maybe the best time to write an equally vague application would be when I've only had a couple hours sleep and am operating in a mental fog.
But will I do anything that productive? Probably not. Instead I'll just wander the Intertubes, reading celebrity gossip and solving online jigsaw puzzles.
from the blogs it seems a number of us are having this problem. Lately I have been waking up during the night and the choice seems to be lie in bed awake with the monkey mind running wild or get up and read. I am fortunate, being retired, I can go back to bed at dawn - of course about seven a.m. the cat will demand both my wife and I get up. After we get up she goes back into the bedroom and naps for the morning.
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I'm the opposite, I stay up as late as I need to, usually around 3 or 4, and then finally go to bed.
ReplyDeleteDepends on how active I've been, was pretty active Saturday so hit the sack early, of course that got me up going on to 3 AM. Opps, change clock, 2 AM.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should go get some movies to watch instead of being a blog whore.
The useful things I can think of doing in the middle of the night are always too noisey. I agree, though, that firing up the tired brain cells is not so easy at 3 am.
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