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Post by RJA on Mar 4, 2012 23:39:59 GMT -5
Ah sounds like fun! Good luck on your play! I'm not that busy this month, at least, not the first couple of weeks. Looking for a new pianist for or band, or well - electric piano that is. Having some try out next week. But not doing much new stuff with the band. And school, just had exams in the last week of January. Don't think I'll have exams again 'till April. Or maybe the last week of March. Maybe I should try and find out haha.
Well good night for you as well! And have fun tomorrow!!
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 5, 2012 22:59:43 GMT -5
68,861 / 111,072
Might seem like a weird word count, but I started off with 61,072 from February, and I added 50k to that for March. I didn't feel like having to subtract that every time I counted March's totals. ^^
After feeling like crap, skipping work and school, and lying in bed all day in a semi-conscious stupor with my face stuffed in a pillow, I am now wide awake and actively procrastinating (as opposed to the passive procrastination of the past few hours.)
My only regret is that there was not more Star Trek or Blackadder.
Random quotient filled.
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Post by RJA on Mar 6, 2012 16:27:08 GMT -5
You were up quite late last night weren't you? Saw your tweets in my late morning
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 6, 2012 22:24:59 GMT -5
Ohhh yes! I really have to stop, but I can't help it! I work best after dinner, when everyone's learned to quit bothering me. =P Unfortunately, I pay for it by feeling like I didn't get to write if I go to sleep early. XD
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Post by RJA on Mar 7, 2012 15:07:23 GMT -5
Yeah same here! I stopped staying up terribly late with my morningclasses this week. Only problem with that: No writing -_-
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Mar 7, 2012 23:39:41 GMT -5
I wonder if there's some kind of link between writing and sleep problems? Maybe it's something to do with the number of different personalities we have to unite behind the idea of falling asleep. That sounds crazy, doesn't it? Probably even crazier to people who've never been woken up by the need to write a particular scene or make a note of something vitally important to your character's back-story. As for lying down and trying to go to sleep... well, that's when all the characters decide it's time to throw a party, isn't it?
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Post by RJA on Mar 8, 2012 10:48:32 GMT -5
Yeah it might be that. I've got all those people talking in my head, it's insane. Though I don't think I should tell that to my doctor. She'd probably send me to a mental institution ^_^ But they keep asking me if I'm overthinking when I can't sleep. You know, worrying. But I don't. Thoug I do like to just brood and plot when I'm lying in sleep. Almost all of my plots get shaped in bed. They just aren't worrying thoughts that keep me up.
Actually went to see my doctor this morning about my sleeping problems. I get to try melatonin tomorrow. Hopefully it will work.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Mar 9, 2012 1:01:28 GMT -5
I've been told it's bad to think, brood or write in bed. It's also supposed to be bad to read in bed, which I accidentally did until 5 this morning.
Once you go to bed you're supposed to be focused on sleeping - you only go to bed when you want to sleep rather than using the bed for other activities. If you regularly write or think about writing in bed, it becomes a habit and it gets harder to switch off the thought processes and get to sleep.
Of course, this advice comes from the same people who say that being physically tired helps you sleep. That one is definitely rubbish.
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Post by RJA on Mar 9, 2012 11:14:45 GMT -5
Hmm makes sense. But I've got ADHD and my mind simply doesn't stop thinking. I don't know how to switch it off. Been doing it since I was a kid. And like I said, it's not just in bed. I overthink -like- all the time!
I do reed in bed. But that's more of a 'cooling down' after my day. A way to relax and get sleepy. When I stay out of bed I keep getting new impulses and I never get sleepy. And concentrating on reading a book makes me more sleepy, 'cause it's quite hard for me to focus that much.
(oh and because all of this I'm going to try melatonin after the weekend. It's supposed to get me to that point where I do get sleepy...)
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 9, 2012 14:38:25 GMT -5
Yeah, I read in bed all the time. Watching a movie or reading actually gets me sleepy...if I don't get sucked in! xD I do get sucked in more often than not, though. However, if I've been working all day, reading in bed is how I relax. I'd rather wind down reading for half an hour before sleeping, than just turning off the lights without winding down. =P
Hope melatonin works! =P
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Post by RJA on Mar 10, 2012 17:34:09 GMT -5
Yeah it's relaxing and gets me sleepy. Though reading is better than watching. People keep telling me it's bad to write before sleeping, though I keep doing it. I love writing at night so much.
Should start some writing now. Otherwise I'll have to write all 7,5k for the Weekend challenge tomorrow haha.
And I really hope it works as well!
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Mar 11, 2012 8:49:54 GMT -5
That sleep stuff was advice I take. I'm not sitting in bed with my laptop at 12:45 in the morning. Honest. I've never decided to read until I feel tired enough to fall asleep and ended up staying awake all night either.
I totally fail at dealing with my insomnia. Fortunately I only have to be wide awake at milking times, so nobody cares if I catch up on my sleep during the day.
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Post by RJA on Mar 11, 2012 15:01:44 GMT -5
I read in bed when I'm not tired enough yet and after a while I finally start feeling tired and start to sleep.
Yeah, Siana, I read something like you having a farm? How cool is that? I was totally enjoying the lovely spring weather we're having at the moment on the farm I have my ponies. Finished training one of their horse I'm training, took care of my own ponies and I was like; "Wow, how I'd love to live here, feed all the animals and do the other chores and then just sit down and write!" <3 <3 <3 *dreams away*
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 12, 2012 16:42:49 GMT -5
RJA, your signature is making me dizzy. XD
I don't even have the excuse of insomnia. I just like to stay up way damn late because it's a good six or seven hours when <i>no one bothers me.</i> XD That, and I'm just NOT a morning person.
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Post by RJA on Mar 12, 2012 20:52:07 GMT -5
Hihi, then you should stop drinking so much Haha Oh I've never been a morning person and probably never will be ^_^ Argh had a total break down -er- what is it, last night/yesterday... Came back from uni after 1 hour of sleep (and had the most exhausting long day of 9 hours) and all I wanted to sleep. BUT I still had to practise with my band. Still I had the relaxing thought that my mum would have picked up my Melatonin, so after I got back, I would finally be able to sleep... Got home and she had forgot to pick it up. OMG I feel like such a teenager, but being totally exhausted, I just snapped. In the end I stayed home and just crawled up in my bed crying and fell asleep around 7.30pm or something, so now I've been awake again for a few. I'm such a hopeless case...
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