A Hard Day’s Night
In actual fact, it hasn’t been. Except for another bout of ugly, wicked gastro I’ve been dealing with, I’ve spent most of my night choosing wordpress blogger templates and making sure my gravatar was...
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I’ve been working night shift for about five and a half months now, and my body, never one for a good night’s sleep any way, is craving sleep the way some women crave pica-like substances during their...
View Articletired but wired
English: This is an image I took in Saigon, Vietnam last year (2008). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I just finished a 12 hour night shift and so I feel my usual post-work mental shutdown and numbness, not...
View ArticleI’ll sleep when I die, if I’m not dead already.
I’m sitting here at my desk at 3p.m. eating a bowl of canned New England clam chowder. I’m no gourmet cook (in fact, I’m no cook at all, so I usually don’t bother with cooking from scratch, especially...
View Articledental damns
I have been up for… count them… 27 hours, and I worked last night. After, I had the pleasure of having three of my teeth filled. My right upper lip and nose felt like someone had shot me up with...
View Articlebinge-sleeping, teeth-filling, and other things that occupied my weekend
So, the reason I’ve been incognito on this blog for two days is that I’ve literally been sleeping. Binge-sleeping, if you will. My night shift job coupled with my crazy-ass insomnia has lead to a...
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Stadium construction worker sleeping on the job (Photo credit: Shine 2010 – 2010 World Cup good news) (N.B. I wish I could be this guy. Even he can sleep on the job.) So I’ve been up since 6 a.m. and...
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