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Llamadance
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 07/12/2005 : 21:59:08
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I don't need insomnia to get sleep deprivation. I've got two kids who woke up at 5:30am. (It's 6am now) :(
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danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
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Posted - 07/12/2005 : 22:03:52
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| i marvel at parents, i have many friends & family that are. you have the top job of the planet. |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/13/2005 : 02:21:00
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Originally posted by Carolynanna
Does anyone else wonder what kitty would be like if she wasn't chronically sleep deprived?
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Don't believe the hype.
I dread to think myself, I honestly do!
and you're questioning the sciences
and questioning religion
you're looking like an idiot
and you no longer care.
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 19:50:33
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Fuck. I can just tell it's gonna be another 4-hours-of-sleep night.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
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Posted - 08/12/2005 : 20:17:18
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Did/does anyone work nights? I did for a good while, I really used to enjoy it, I felt like the only person alive on Earth, plus all the very difficult patients/specials were asleep (I worked in hospitals and institutions as a Care Assistant).I had lots of time to read and think (in between the actual work), which I enjoyed. I've become a very night person, with my freinds always saying "only you could have stayed up and watched all that weird stuff"! Of course you get totally out of synch with the "living"(normal people), sleeping all day is not nice, it can really fuck you up, but you get into a rhythm, which is hard to get out of.
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 20:24:38
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Originally posted by therewererumours
Did/does anyone work nights? I did for a good while, I really used to enjoy it, I felt like the only person alive on Earth, plus all the very difficult patients/specials were asleep (I worked in hospitals and institutions as a Care Assistant).I had lots of time to read and think (in between the actual work), which I enjoyed. I've become a very night person, with my freinds always saying "only you could have stayed up and watched all that weird stuff"! Of course you get totally out of synch with the "living"(normal people), sleeping all day is not nice, it can really fuck you up, but you get into a rhythm, which is hard to get out of.
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I worked nights for 15 years.
It's exactly as you describe it.
For 9 of those years it was just my best friend and me working, all alone, until 1 a.m., basically being paid to hang together with our favorite person on the planet and crank out work we were born to do while everybody else slept. It was the coolest.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 20:35:28
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Wow, actually, 2 or 3 years was hard for me, I don't know what 15 years has done to you  . It's 4.34am, should I call it a night? 
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tobafett
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1713 Posts |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 22:15:02
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2 1/2 hours sleep last nite (stayed up listening to excellent fb.netter's mixes and to watch the leonid meteors).
i napped for abt. 30 minutes earlier so i should be set for most of tonite! |
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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
2291 Posts |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 01:14:11
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I think I might have issues with insomnia.... This morning I went to bed at 4:00am but I was awake at 7:00am and couldn't sleep in at all.. Maybe its not insomnia, it possibly something to do with my body clock being used to getting up at 7am for work... but I never am ever able to lie in at all, unless I have the worst hangover (and even then I am awake but just cannot get out of bed).
This is a high class bureau de change, not some Punch & Judy show on the seafront at Margate! |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 01:32:20
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I used to work nights in care homes, 8pm to 8am and there was only ever three hours work in a night, the home was right on the menai straights opposite the Bangor pier and it was beautiful at night, you could see the lights of bangor in the distance and the sun coming up over the sea. It was a big old manor house with a grand lounge and dining room where I'd study in the night and stare out of the window a lot.
this was the view from the top of the road where the home was (the home was futher down than this)
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little more like this actually
It wasn't a nice home though, this happened while I was there:
http://www.guide2caretoday.co.uk/news3/113.htm
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 01:43:23
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Ok, because for some reason I have some sort of bee in my bonnet about this, sorry, it was the building
that the arrow points at.
pretty huh? Bangor is you know, even though it's in Wales.
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics |
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 05:37:47
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| About ten years ago, disgusted with work and life, I did not work at all for two full years, exhausting my savings. During that time my sleep cycle gradually rotated through the twenty-four hour period three times. For example, over three consecutive eight month periods my daily rising time moved forward until it reached where it had been eight months earlier. |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 18:09:48
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Funny you should ask. Some water got stuck in it this afternoon at the pool and it kinda hurts. But I haven't cut it off or anything. Yet.
That happened to me a few weeks ago, and it still doesn't feel much better.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 18:11:06
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Are you serious, VV? You don't want water stuck in your ear too long. It can calcify and really mess up your vestibular system.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2005 : 13:54:48
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I don't know if the water is still in there. I just know that my ear still feels all blocked up. It was infected at one point, but I think that went away. I tried some earwax removal drops, but they didn't totally clear it up, and I don't know that I want to try them again while I'm still using a different kind of ear medicine. If my ear still feels clogged on Monday, I'll call the doctor again, but I'm sick of this damned ear costing me so much money.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
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insomnia.
