On stress and 1-hour chunks of sleep
May. 20th, 2003 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darcydodoBesides being convinced that I won't finish my essays on time (this is not unlikely, but on the other hand, if I get inspired I can write really quickly. This would be why the Epic & Saga essay is still unwritten), I also had stupidly anxiety-producing dreams during those hours I allowed myself to sleep. 1) I was getting tons of e-mails from Tony Long about the prose revision I owe him and also kept running into him and trying to avoid him. OK, let's guess why I had this dream. 2) I realized that I had sent people my Berkeley address when in fact I'm having my birthday party in Oxford, and there wasn't going to be enough time to let people know that the address was wrong because it was already Thursday, and nobody at all would know how to get there. I'm assuming that this simply stemmed from the fear that my birthday's going to be stressful rather than enjoyable. Now if I can only keep from falling asleep every two seconds while I'm trying to write....
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Date: 2003-05-20 09:36 am (UTC)Then again-- funky dreams: didn't you wish for more excitement in your nocturnal (or not so nocturnal, as it turns out) processes? & ;-)
So tired here as well. You know why-- one just shouldn't spend all night, as nice as the company was (both in RL with him and virtually with you &
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Date: 2003-05-20 09:40 am (UTC)*sympathetic hugs*
- R
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Date: 2003-05-20 10:00 am (UTC)Oh my!
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Date: 2003-05-20 10:01 am (UTC)Do tell me!
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Date: 2003-05-20 10:04 am (UTC)Why'd you think your birthday party's going to be stressful?
And R - Darcy's being sarcastic by questioning the idea that she *does* these things to herself...
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Date: 2003-05-21 02:07 pm (UTC)I definitely work best under the influence of deadlines and adrenaline, but the adrenaline doesn't kick in until I think I don't have time left to finish the paper. Unfortunately, my estimates of how long the paper will take to finish assume that I'll be writing with adrenaline, and the adrenaline doesn't start until I get past the point where I think I can finish the paper. This writing technique worked so much better back when I was still writing 15 page papers. For some reason, 20 page papers take more than three times longer to write than 15 pagers, but my adrenaline system hasn't figured that out yet.
What surprises me is that you weren't dreaming about the essay. Usually my sleep-addled brain keeps on thinking about the same thing and then my alarm clock starts beeping and I turn it off thinking, "I am already working on my paper. Surely there is no need to get up. Funny that I never realized how well the Bernstein bears explain Eliade's theories of sacred space."
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Date: 2003-05-21 02:45 pm (UTC)And given that there's still another paper to finish, things are generally BAD.
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Date: 2003-05-23 03:20 am (UTC)Kathrid