Done yesterday (20100903 Fr)

[mdlbear]

0903 Fr
  * up 7:00; W=195.4; drugs, nose, teeth; laundry; coffee
  @ Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle
    18th Century terraforming, via gmcdavid 
  * Lunch with coworkers; walked to the other side of 101 on Brokaw
    Korean beef taco and kimchee quesadilla from a roach coach.  Odd.
  % 5:30 very sleepy; went home ~6pm IIRC
  @ don_marti: SSL certificates and man-in-the-middle attacks 
  @ Just a Baker Street Muse - Lessons I Have Learnt From Trees
    via ysabetwordsmith
  @ Obama's economic policies aren't ambitious enough to reverse America's
    decline. - By Eliot Spitzer - Slate Magazine via wcg 
  @ Which ebook sellers will allow publishers and writers to opt out of DRM?
    - Boing Boing via gmcdavid 
  % 9pm sleepy.  R. shoulder still sore.  cyclobenzaprine
  @ A story about updates and people « Máirín Duffy 
  * bath; bed ~11; snuggle

Wow! Another day with next to nothing done. Not so surprising, I guess. Work included some good discussions, but too much time spent trying to figure out a way of getting emacs to use X over ssh from a Mac laptop. I will probably resort to simply bringing in my netbook.

Took cyclobenzaprine for my right shoulder, which is still sore. It helped, but I slept for 8 hours. That's nominally OK, but I resent the time.

Quite a few links. Check out Lessons I Have Learnt From Trees and Obama's economic policies aren't ambitious enough to reverse America's decline.

Comments

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Wow. Eight hours of sleep does good things for maintaining mood stability, and sleep time is when your body does its best healing. I have some concerns for you, because I infer from your statement that you don't often allow yourself to sleep this long.

If you chronically short yourself of sleep, you deprive yourself of spoons for being able to better cope with problems in your day.

I remember in college reading a study for one of my classes which showed that college students actually got more productive, quality work done if they allowed themselves more sleep. This ran counter to the tendency to stay up longer hours to "get things done."

Maybe this is a big button for me because one of our major concerns/battles with Sparkle is to get her to sleep longer than 5 hours at a time in a 24 hour period. It has dramatic effects on her ability to interact socially with the world if we can get her to sleep 6 hours instead of five. Eight hours, and her spoon drawer is full, and her behaviors nearly within the norm for children her age.

Fewer hours of sleep, and she appears unable to even perceive how others are feeling. As she is more rested, she seems more aware of her surroundings, other people, and paying attention to her body signals like being hungry, or tired from physical effort.

These things have echoes for me of other things you have posted with River content for yourself.

Just say'n.

[mdlbear]

You're undoubtedly right. Unfortunately. It would mean going to bed at 11 and getting up at 7; I'd miss a lot. Or 10 and 6, if I wanted to take advantage of the fact that I seem to be more productive in the morning.

Ugh. Do Not Like. It would be a huge disruption of my life. But you're right, of course.