Yay!

[baratron]

Woohoo: I've just bought two tickets to go and see the Wildhearts on Tuesday. (Long-time readers of this journal will know that they've been my favourite band for a very long time.) I have sorted out a nice chap from the Wildhearts mailing list to give me a lift down to Portsmouth, and more importantly, back again; whilst getting to Portsmouth should be easy 'cos there's direct trains from Surbiton (which is 5 minutes on the bus from here), it seems there's engineering work on Tuesday 30th and the last train from Portsmouth back to London will leave at 22:24, which would mean leaving the gig ridiculously early. Eep. All hail Chris, person with a car.

Now I have to make sure I get to bed at a sensible time: I have a long day at work tomorrow and I can't afford to be late. I have to get up at 11am, which is quite reasonable really - thousands of people are happily awake by then - almost in the middle of their working day, some of them. But that means going to bed by, oh, 3am or something - and how am I going to guarantee being tired by then? let alone tired and able to sleep? Argh. I need to get a new body clock - there must be one available for download somewhere...

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[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Well, I shan't bother asking if you want to meet for dinner on Tuesday night again then :)

Have a great time.

Can you ring me sometime -- there's something I want to discuss which isn't really suitable fare for LJ.

to work on sleep...

[kixie.livejournal.com]

it's the strangest idea to me - sleep is usually something that's just supposed to come to you, or at least I always thought of it that way.

The disturbance that EMDR brought was bad, but understandable. My brain's memories and dream logs were being accessed and muddled around, but now I'm going to have to try to get a full sleep cycle, as in usually go to bed at xxxx hours, and wake up at xxxx hours.

Easiest way - do you take sleeping pills? I hate the things, most just don't work, and the one - *one* - that does makes me feel SHITE the next day.

Trazodone - it's the only effective sleeping pill (and it's technically and antidepressant, but at 50mg-100mg it's just a sleeping pill). take it on a Friday night so you dont have to work or do anything big the next day.

Wake up at a specified time on Sat morning, get up, do stuff, light stuff, go for lunch, see a movie, shop a bit - whatever. You'll probably feel groggy all day, but you WILL be asleep at the same time the next night.

Easiest way to get a cycle together. Even if you use the pills for three or so days, it actaully does work.

Almost as good as downloading a body clock.