January 26th, 2009 Lack Of Sleep Is Not Good!
It’s decided, lack of sleep on any level, be it minimal or severe is not good; and should be avoided at all costs!
I think I only mentioned my sleeping routine a couple of weeks ago, and if my memory serves me well (which quite often it doesn’t), I mentioned also that I’m quite good at sticking to it. I realised when I was in Year Nine or so that simply staying up to whatever time I felt like it was simply not plausible, especially since I was held responsible for getting myself up in the morning.
Despite my strenuous efforts to maintain my well planned and successful routine, it seems to be dithering away… Or worse still, not fulfilling the requirements to make up the tiredness from each day.
The conclusion?
I’m slowly becoming a Zombie. I certainly feel like one, and in the mornings I look at myself in the mirror, and I certainly look like one… And it’s getting worse.
I feel so worn out; and it isn’t characteristic of me. Yes, I am prone to get just a tad grumpy when I don’t have sleep, and maybe despite quite enjoying the mornings, my mind and body certainly don’t make an extreme or even noticable effort for Chemistry first thing on a Monday morning.
I’ve begun to increasingly notice this general tiredness that I exert more and more over the past couple of weeks, but it certainly made an impression on me last Thursday. I hadn’t had a particularly strenuous day, in fact it was pretty lax and easy. I even had a free lesson at the end of the day, but I stayed in School to try and get some Homework completed (which didn’t happen, as I ended up having a Philosophical conversation with no one other than Byron). However, I decided to take myself home early, as to avoid all of the horrible onslaught of Children after the last lesson. I got home, fairly early, and pottered about the house for a bit. I think I may have even watched the News. I don’t know, but I decided that at four, I would take myself to my room, and read!
So I sat, and I read for about an hour.
I woke up at half seven.
It was actually quite possibly one of the best sleeps I have had in what feels like forever. It was brilliant… But so not me!
As much as I would love to be able to adopt an hour or so into my afternoon purely for sleep, I can’t. I’m not a day-time sleeper as such, and generally, I find sleep a horrible waste of time… Despite loving it.
So yes, I think I need a new plan of action. I either need to get to bed even earlier, or cut out the aspect of my life which makes me so damn tired, which unfortunately is School… So that isn’t an option. So it looks like I’ll be tucked up in bed at half nine then! Apart from on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. I can’t miss CSI, Skins, Jonatha Ross, or cripple my social life even moreso due to my lack of sleep!
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As for last week, well other than being pretty knackered, and Obama filling the News headlines every single day (Sky News have a counter of the days he has been President every time anything remotely related to him appears), it was alright.
Last Monday I had an INSET day, and I hate to admit it, but I actually can’t remember what I did. I think I was out with my group of people, but I seriously cannot remember. That’s actually quite scary, as I don’t do drugs, alcohol or anything else stupid which impairs memory… But I know I did something, what exactly that was I can’t say!
Scary.
Tuesday was of course Obama’s inauguration. It still bewilders me (and honestly, I’m not quite sure why), when people say that they “didn’t know”, or that they “don’t care” when such life-changing and historical events take place, and so many turn a blind-eye to it all. I mean, it’s not as if it was a small scale event, or someone in the middle of Texas had grown the world’s largest Tomato or something… This was a major key date in this year, and for years to come. Needless to say, I was in awe. Despite my reservations about Obama, and I still hold them, I think that we still need to hold some caution against those who lead us, and I’m not completely won over by his shockingly powerful charisma; but it was amazing. Even more amazing is finally having someone at the White House who knows how to utilise the English Language and apply it properly, and not claiming that people “mis-underestimated” them. Then again, I think I will miss shouting at the Television at the stupidity that was displayed in front of me!
Skipping Wednesday as far as I can remember, nothing interesting happened; Thursday was also pretty normal. Double Chemistry, Psychology, Biology and then a bit of Homework Catch-Up, it wasn’t particularly interesting. However, I did manage to melt a Boiling Tube Rack to an extremely hot Boiling Tube whilst doing my Chemistry Coursework. Luckily though, it appears that I wasn’t the only person to do this! But the fumes of the melted plastic gave me a horrible headache!
Friday consisted of starting my day off with my favourite lesson… Double History. I’ve been reading my Stalin Textbook for History as we’ve just moved onto the Russia aspect of our course, and it’s amazing. I’ve never been one to particularly care about Russia, mainly because I knew nothing about the place, and presumed everything to be highly complicated. I certainly remember remaining quite dumb-founded in Year Nine History when we briefly touched on the Tsar. Following that was Psychology, and after that CAS.
Now, I’ve never been a fan of CPSHE, or any of those really quite pointless and useless lessons which filled up the timetable in Lower-School; and it seems apparent that when you’re in Sixth Form my school continues to feel the need, urge and desire to continually bore us with more of the same crap. This lesson though was more of an improvisation, as our teacher wasn’t in, but we were told to get on with the work anyway, we ended up having a “Dance Off”, and a rather enjoyable but short game of “Truth or Dare”. For more on this, check out the videos on Facebook!
My weekend amazingly turned out to be quite good, fun and interesting. I also came to realise that I can happily say I will not be pursuing a dancing career any time soon!
I promise that this week I will actually post before next Monday… As it appears by this time, much of my memory on what occurred during the past seven days is rather faint, and/or lacking!
Samantha.
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