This may be a very big mistake...

[capri0mni]

I've been going to bed around 3:00 - 4:00 am, and actually falling asleep close to 5:00 or 6:00 am for about a month, now.

So when 4 am rolled around this morning, I made the decision (perhaps rash), to just keep staying up until nighttime came around again, and just reset my circadian rhythm... a diurnal reboot.

This may be a very good thing, if I can stay awake until 8:00 or 9:00 pm; I can sleep a full 12 or 13 hours and wake up rested on a more socially in sync schedule.

If I crash completely at 3 in the afternoon, however, it will only make the problem worse.

So if I end up spamming LJ with incomprehensible babble, you'll know why.

At least I have an appropriate icon for my craziness...

Comments

[jekesta]

If you do crash at 3pm you can sometimes then wake up around midnight and do a full day from there. Then you should be sleepy again by the evening that time. I do that sometimes. But yes, I hope you keep awake happily:) I love staying up all night sometimes because falling asleep when you're really really really tired is just the best feeling . . . of course it can be quite unhappy making when insomnia strikes up just then.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

It was easier to stay awake around the clock when I was in my twenties than now, when I am in my forties...

But yes, there is still the (very slight) feeling of adventure about the whole ...venture.

[rob-t-firefly.livejournal.com]

Best of luck with it! And many thanks for your advice on my last post, I very much appreciate it.

Also, gratuitous icon post.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you... Of course, as I do not drink alchohol, times like this may be the closest I ever get to feeling (punch) drunk...

Advice: you're very welcome.

Icon: hee!

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

Don't expect to feel great the first day. If you're anything like me you'll feel like crap for the first day or so.

I'm with you on the crazy sleep pattern though, although mine's down to work - I get up at 4am every weekday now and don't get to bed 'til midnight.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Well, I've done these circadian reboots a couple of times before, so I'm going on experience, a bit, too. It does help that I don't have to drag myself into work, and just wake up when my body tells me it's ready to.

...It's just that this last month or so, it's been telling me that it's ready to go to bed at 4, and wake up at noon, and eat dinner at nine in the evening... which is just a mess if I ever want to do anything with the outside world, like go shopping, or see a movie, or even just talk to my neighbors. So a reboot it is.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed this version of Little Annie the Goose Girl earlier today. I can't guarantee it's thrilling enough to keep you awake though:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ptn/ptn69.htm

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

EeE! A new once-upon-a-time for my word hoarde!!

Thank you!

(though, when I was young, I think perhaps because I was small, I resented the diminutive 'ie' that some insisted on sticking on the end of my name... I don't mind, so much, now).

*Toddles back after having read that story*

Yes. That's a good one. I just hope, after the wedding, that Little Annie got hold of some good, slippery soap. Because even if it is a fine Prince's ring, having a ring too tight for your finger is very Bothersome (said Pooh).

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

The story has a wikipedia page with more information on its history (dunno how accurate it is so, as ever, the wiki comes with an At Your Own Risk warning). What I find especially interesting about LAtGG is that, with the maid as the goodie and the princess(es) as the baddie(s), it's almost an opposite to the Grimm story which is usually called The Goose-Girl.

I'm glad you liked it. :-)

P.S.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

::iconlove::

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Well, the class politics are reversed, but the theme of "trying to trick the prince=badness" is the same.

At least Little Annie was right up front with her ambitions, from the getgo.

I forget the name in Gaelic, but that prince's stone reminds of that Kings' Stone of Tara, that was said to cry out whenever the true King of Ireland steps upon it... Having a portable one of those (eta: that has a greater vocabulary than "Yawp!"), that you could keep by your bedside, would be very handy indeed.

Re: P.S.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

::I thank thee::

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

A true heart is certainly one way for the goodie to win in goodie versus baddie fairy tales, yes. I further note that Little Annie gives assistance to her rivals whereas the princess has her rival executed. The talking stone and the talking horse's head seem related too. Pity Annie's geese didn't get in on the act. I like helpful talking animals in tales.

The Scottish/British Stone of Scone has similar mythology attached to it.

Having a portable one of those (eta: that has a greater vocabulary than "Yawp!"), that you could keep by your bedside, would be very handy indeed.

Or embarrassing... depending on what one gets up to.... ;-P

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Hm... I wonder if the Stone could be cajoled/bribed into telling the truth about other people.

As for the difference between this story, and the more famous Grimms' version is that the Grimms were compiling their stories with a definite political agenda in mind. They wanted the upper middle classes to rise up and demand that Germany become a more modern nation-state, instead of a collection of vaguely feudal city-states. If they'd let the maids and servants get the better of the princesses, that probably would have made their hoped-for political allies very nervous indeed....