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Date: 25 January 2003 03:46:00
it takes all the fun out of bedtime...... (?!)
Fortunately i am not a morning person even if i have had plenty of sleep, so in fact it makes little material difference to me, really and truly, but when you are still awake at 330am you do get to thinking 'really i should be asleep'. Tonight, after a couple of hours of reeeeally really trying to sleep, i have mastered the fine art of bantumi on my Nokia 3310, just about managed to resist texting people (well, you know, i'm awake, they could be too! but nobody thanks me for it, so i refrain), and then needed the loo, so seeing as the computer's on the way i decided i'd fill you good people in on the contents of my evening.
Lovely curry, lovely too see people again, lovely chat with dith, lovely eddie izzard entertained us all, lovely baileys, obviously not enough though cos i'm still awake.
i know what it is as well - i gave up hot drinks for a year (pausing only to drink tea in the tiny tea tent at greenbelt), and started again at the beginning of jan, since when my stomach has not been at all right and i haven't been sleeping. Problem is i love coffee. And tea. Lots. I am understanding now why people who have problems with alcohol just stop drinking altogether - i seem to be able to do no tea and coffee or lots, but in moderation, no. I just think 'ill have a cup of tea now' first thing, and then an hour later 'well, one more doesn't make any difference' and before you know it you're having a mug of coffee with your lunch, a couple of tea breaks in the afternoon and a coffee after dinner.
Hmmm. I am fully expecting that if i just ride the storm these patterns will sort themselves out (i mean, i did drink hideous amounts of coffee and tea for about 16 years, and although i've never been the best sleeper ever this didn't change when i gave up hot drinks, but at the moment it's the worst ever...). But then if it all has this much of an adverse affect then it might be better to just give it all up again, or don't drink any after about 3pm....
see, this is what happens. you engage in a proper conversation with yourself and forget that other people are reading.