My sleep was ruined Thursday night by an emergency notification from the local fire department informing me that evacuation had been ordered for a neighborhood considerably north of mine. I signed up for the text notifications, which are accompanied by a series of loud noises from your phone, because I want them, but unfortunately the system is not ( Read more... )

Wednesday night I managed to break the recent pattern of staying in bed all night and sleeping off and on until near or even after dawn. I went to bed in an afternoon that was already storm dark half an hour before sunset, and then got up before midnight and fixed some dinner, then went back to bed around four o'clock in the morning, reading for a ( Read more... )

Tuesday I went to bed even earlier than I had Monday, and again spent most of the night there. I was more or less awake when the rain began falling a bit after four in the morning, then fell back to sleep and had a strange dream that I was watching a lightning storm south of here, even though this storm has no lightning or thunder. I might have ( Read more... )

Monday evening I went to bed earlier than ever, then woke up before midnight still tired enough to go back to sleep until after three. Then there was some tossing and turning for an hour or so, as I didn't want to get out from under the warm covers, but I finally dragged my self into the morning chill, but mostly because my back began to ache so ( Read more... )

No idea what I'm doing. It's all afternoony, and I recently spent about ten or twelve hours in bed, waking up several times but always going back to sleep after a while, even after the sun had come up and the light was leaking brightly into the room, with me thinking this is not my house, which of course it isn't. The rent is paid for another month ( Read more... )

Long abed last night yet longing to return, I let the morning pass in daydreamed excess, not caring that the bed's unmade and my mind undone. Saturday I got to bed about six o'clock in the evening, and slept off and on until four this morning. There may have been dreams, or maybe waking fantasies, but inattentive as always, I don't remember much ( Read more... )

Friday night I spent a lot of time in bed again without much sleep, and not in a good way. I got up shortly before dawn as the gray light was growing, with the east looking much as it had Friday night, except it was the sun and not the full moon that was hidden by the band of low clouds cramping the horizon. The days now follow one another with a ( Read more... )

Damn, but sleeping almost like a normal person after so many years of Morpheal irregularity, following decades of being nocturnal, is way more disturbing than I'd have expected. I don't know how long this pattern is going to persist, but I'm torn between wishing it would just end and worrying about what fresh hell might replace it when it goes. In ( Read more... )

Wednesday night to this morning I was in bed more than ten hours, and probably asleep for about seven, so one would think I'd feel rested, but no. Still, I'm finally doing laundry, as the room was available this morning. It's pretty rare. It should be done by quarter past one. There is a possibility of rain this afternoon, and maybe even a ( Read more... )

This whole sleeping at night thing does not seem to be working out well for me. I feel downright juvenile, except for the falling into decrepitude and senility issue, which kind of spoils it. I suspect I might enjoy being mentally twelve again if I weren't physically feeling like a crumbling husk full of aching bones. Sort of. Okay, well on the way ( Read more... )