8
Dec
Posted in Armchair Psychologist | 4 Comments »
photo credit: Robert Banh
You’re hardly even sposed to tell people about your dreams, much less write about them, but I have had such a bizarre collection of REM-thought in the past few days that I can’t help it.
1.) In this one I was the child in a terrorist family. They were all about to commit ritual suicide, but I wasn’t ready to die. So I escaped out of the second-story window of a house that looked much like that of my childhood, and began to roll down hill after hill. Except they weren’t so much hills as broccoli, and I was rolling over the tops of huge broccoli trees. And then I woke up.
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Tags: broccoli, broccoli trees, chicken fingers, dream interpretation, grass is greener, insomnia, job dreams, jobless dreams, media, nasi goreng, print is dead, rioja, ritual suicide, sleeping like a baby, too busy, weird dreams
5
Nov
Posted in Single Lady | 3 Comments »
photo credit: Sumlin
After all my talk of sleep yesterday I had a rather weird night last night. I had vowed to go to bed at a more reasonable time, wake up early (well, earlier than 1), and get started on the day. So I was deep in sleep by 3 am, when my neighbor came home, turned on her favorite numbingly repetitive tunes, and proceeded to have a tantrum involving extensive sobbing and wall-beating. Oh dear.
Poor neighbor. For some reason I suspect that her angst has something to do with a man rather than a job, for then she was on the phone, and occasionally yelling, and no one does that to former or potential bosses—do they?
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Tags: behavior with neighbors, city living, civility, grown woman, house hunters, insomnia, living space, manhattan, move to brooklyn, neighbor tantrum, new york, new york city, relationship troubles, rude neighbors, thin walls, waking in the middle of the night
4
Nov
Posted in Lifestyles of the Unemployed | No Comments »
photo credit: Carly & Art
I’ve been bad. The sleep-creep has started up again. Remember my 4 am-1 pm sleep sched back in the summer of neverending consequence? Ah yes, well, it’s back with a bit of a vengeance.
I blame this in part on some really good books I’ve been reading at night. The kind of books that keep you up until 1 am and when you look at your clock and find you’re not tired (the books are that good/exciting/compelling/insomnia-inducing), you just keep reading.
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Tags: 4 am, all-nighter, american apparel, freelancing, good books, great novels, halloween costume, insomnia, jeannette walls, naps, priorities, sleep all day, sleep creep, sleep schedule, the glass castle, twitter alerts, unemployment, up all night
