Baby Coyote here is my new spirit guide. With each "arooo!" from his wee jaws comes to me insight upon the grand desarollo (see footnote) of my life's living. Thanks, B.C.!
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I try to avoid dyadic stereotyping in general, but man, sometimes it's just Right Fucking On. Like right now, as it's edging up on 2 AM, and I have to go get my cervix inspected (and totally not in the fun, sexy way) in seven hours, it's really easy to think, "there are two kinds of people on this earth, insomniacs, and people who can sleep."
My insomnia hasn't been so bad for a few years, but since the beginning of '07, it's come back ragingly, keeping me up all night a lot of nights. I like to get up as close to dawn as I can manage, do some yoga or run or otherwise excite my cardiovascular system into life, and drink a cup of tea while checking my e-mail. Now I'm sort of dragging myself out of bed groggily much later than I'd like, and it kind of fucks with my vibrational energy or whatever the young folks are saying these days.
I'm sure some of y'all have a hard time sleeping. Is there anything I can do other than take pills? I really try to avoid ingesting too many Substances (says the lass who is going in tomorrow to get her prescription for hormones to pump into her body renewed).
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The most exciting thing to happen in the past few days other than landing a few new copyediting gigs is having my rapidly-approaching-senile grandmother ask me to explain calculus to her. Fortunately for the sanctity of mathematics, I suppose, my shoddy grasp of differentiation and integration was no match for her tendency to be distracted by shiny objects.
Poor grandma.
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I'm going to give this sleep thing another shot, I think. Wish me luck.
Footnote: I don't know if I've talked about desarollo before, but it's up there for My Favorite Word In Any Language (and with such contenders as "sinewy," "schadenfreude," and a bunch of stuff I'm too lazy to look up the Unicode alphabets for, that's quite an accomplishment). Spanish for "development," it has the connotative image of "unfurling." Divine.
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am i allowed to comment on an old thread?
'maudlin' is also a fave in the anglish tongue.
I know a bit about insomnia, obviously. Up writing a long comment to a post already ancient in the blogosphere (ick, buzzwordish) of a girl I don't even know. The strangest thing about reading people's blogs is get this sense of knowing someone I've never met. Anyway, it may be about time to stop traversing backwards into this girl's (your? I have no idea who is reading these comments, probably no one, less likely still the author of the original post) timeline and engage a blackout.