A Sleepless Night

So, as is often the case, I can’t sleep.

I did a week of night shifts last week, and back to a “normal” roster this week. I have come to the conclusion, a long time ago, that shift work and I do not agree. I need routine. But, I do recognise that I am a contradiction in that I enjoy novelty – new people to talk to, new things to learn, etc.

But all within the framework and comfort of routine.

It is 1.52 am, and I have had to get up from bed, and I can’t think what else to do but blog.

I have been in bed for hours. I have listened to myself, my partner and the cats breathe. I have listened to watches and clocks tick the seconds by. I have heard cars go past my house, and have listened to the traffic that makes use of the arterial road 300 metres or so from where I live.

I have been too warm and too cool. I have emptied my bladder a few times, and also blown my nose.

I have checked the time more often than I care to admit. The frustration has climbed relentlessly, and so now I am sitting here, in the dark, typing away on my laptop, writing a post to be published on a blog I have told very few people about. Is it worse that no-one will read this any time soon, or is it worse that strangers are having a glimpse into my ever so slightly neurotic world?

I hurt my neck yesterday…well, I suppose now it was the day before yesterday. I pulled a muscle sitting with my laptop, funnily enough. I will never learn.

The pain has lessened, but it still catches me every so often if I forget about it and mistakenly expect full range of movement when I try to look at something to the right of me.

Perhaps another reason I can’t sleep is that today was a messy day at work. We all have days like these, it’s no big deal. I just find it hard to wind down if I feel stressed.

Or, maybe, I can’t sleep because I have started a few different projects, and have a few more planned, and my mind is trying to keep up. There simply isn’t enough time in the day…which is maybe the reason my brain is ever so kindly extending my day just now. Wonders never cease.

Okay, I might surf the net a little, read some email, and have a wander through Facebook, before trying to sleep again.

I hope you, whoever you are, are having a better time of it than I!

Goodnight.