4/20

Woke up around 8 to be at work by 9:30. Long walk after work. Run in the evening. To bed around 1.

• up around 8, 4 or 5 hours of sleep
• 2 cups of coffee (last around 9pm)
• lots of exercise and sunlight
• no alcohol
• fell asleep around 2

4/19

I think I woke up around 9:30 after about 5.5 hours of sleep. I worked from 11 to 3. I had a large coffee after work. Got home around midnight after trivia. Went to bed, but had trouble sleeping.

• up 9:30, 5.5 hours of sleep
• 2 coffees
• 1 beer in evening
• not much time outside, not much exercise
• fell asleep around 4

4/18/2011

I think I fell asleep around 3 last night and I got up at about 10am. I did P90X (half of legs and back and about 2/3 of ab ripper) around noon. Did some housework and went to the rock gym for a couple hours in the evening. I was really groggy in the morning and early afternoon, especially after doing strength training, but woke up with some tea and felt pretty energetic in the evening. 1 beer in the evening. To bed around 3am.

Breakdown:

• up at 10 (about 7 hours of sleep)
• lots of exercise
• a couple cups of tea and one cup of coffee
• 1 beer
• not much time outside

4/17/2011

It's been a year since my last post. I just got too overwhelmed with school to keep up with blog posts during my last term. I did manage to graduate despite missing classes and doing sub-par work on account of sleep deprivation!

I have moved back to Portland and get a lot more sleep than I did last year. I have a pretty flexible schedule right now. I work part time and supplement that income with occasional freelance work and house sitting. I am still struggling with sleep, but I rarely have to go more than a couple days in a row on very little sleep like I did as a student. As a result I am able to function without consuming as much caffeine (most of the time).

I'm not sure what time I fell asleep last night, but I suspect it was between 2 and 3. Today Robert got me up at 9. I had one cup of coffee in the morning. We went to a local park to do some rock climbing, but it's still too wet out. At least we got a short hike in. The weather was pretty nice today. It was sunny and in the 50s.

In the afternoon I had some yerba mate and then Robert and I did some yard work.

Around 11pm I started doing the P90X yoga video, but about a half hour in I got too tired to continue (I've been working out a lot the past few days).

Breakdown:

• up at 9 (about 6 hours of sleep)
• 1 cup of coffee, 1 cup of tea
• some exercise and some time out in the sun
• no alcohol
• to bed around 2

Day 23: 04/21

I fell asleep pretty quickly after going to bed last night.

I woke up around 11 and got up around 11:30. I had a bagel and a couple cups of coffee fro breakfast, then did some laundry, talked to my parents on the phone, and did some preparation for a couple of meetings.

I had a meeting from 4-5, then got lunch(?) and a cup of coffee. I went to the computer lab for a while and had another meeting from 7-8:30.

After that I went back to the computer lab for a long time.

I got home around 2:15. I wasn't really tired yet. I had some wine and tried to relax.

It's after 3 now and I'm still not very tired. If I weren't worried about getting up in the morning, I'd have a cup of coffee and work on a paper now, but I have my running class in5 hours and need to get SOME sleep before then.

breakdown:

• woke up around 11 (8 hours of sleep)
• 4 cups of coffee (last around 8)
• not much time outside
• not much exercise
• to bed around 4

Day 22: 04/20

Got up around 7:15, but had a dysfunctional morning and didn't make it to my running class.

After returning equipment to school I came home and took a nap. I fell asleep around noon and slept until about 2, not making it to my afternoon class.

Went to a meeting at 3:30, then went grocery shopping.

Got home and felt anxious and stressed out. Wanted to go for a run, but it was really rainy out.

It stopped raining later at night and I ended up going for a 6 mile run around midnight. I felt really good afterwards. Wish I could take running classes at night.

Went to bed around 3.

breakdown:

• up at 7:15
• 2 hour nap in early afternoon
• not much time outside during day
• long night run
• no alcohol
• 2 cups of coffee, last around 3

Day 21: 04/18

Set my alarm for 9, but hit snooze for a while and ended up going back to sleep until nearly 11. Still felt tired and had a hard time getting moving.

Left the house around 2 and drove up to Rainier and back for the doc.

Had late lunch and coffee then headed back to Eugene.

Got home around 9. Watched part of a movie in bed, then listened to podcasts until I fell asleep around 3.

breakdown:

• up at 11
• 4 cups of coffee, last around 6:30
• some time outside (gray and rainy off and on)
• not much exercise
• no alcohol
• asleep around 3