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We bought this magnet a long time ago, when our dog Seymour was still alive. Seymour loved to chase tennis balls and was never without a ball nearby, so this just seemed the epitome of Seymour. Do you have a
sleep disorder? Sleep tite... I am a theatre critic OK...so it's a new "career", but if you're interested in reading my reviews, go here WHAT I'M READING Christmas gift from my friend, Diane, who felt it was time I learn more about Australia That's it for today!
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CAT NAP 11 February 2001 I was jolted out of a sound sleep by the ringing of the telephone. "Who could be calling at this hour?" I asked, as I struggled to my feet out of the recliner and staggered to the telephone. On the way to the phone, I looked at my watch and discovered it was 6:15. Omigawd! I overslept. I wondered if perhaps it was Peggy on the phone calling to find out why I hadn’t logged on yet. I answered the phone with a groggy, "Hello?" There was no sound. "Hello? HELLO?" I continued. Walt’s voice came through the receiver. "There’s nobody there," he said. He had answered the phone upstairs. "This is the second time today that there has been nobody on the phone. Are you having an affair?" he joked. Then it hit me--it wasn’t 6:15 a.m., it was 6:15 p.m. Slowly I began to piece together my last conscious moments and realized I had fallen asleep listening to "Says You" on the radio. I had been asleep about an hour. I’ve become pretty good about naps in recent years. There was a time when I didn’t dare take a nap because if I did, I would be pretty much useless for the rest of the day, since I would wake up feeling drugged and just never be able to pull myself out of it. I remember having a boyfriend in college who could start to study, get sleepy, sleep for a bit, wake up and continue on studying, having been refreshed. That was never me. However, as the hours of sleep I slept each night began to diminish, I began to realize that I could fall asleep at the drop of a hat--and often do. All it takes to put me to sleep is immobility for more than 30 seconds. Which is particularly embarrassing when I’m in the middle of a conversation or at a stage show I’m supposed to be reviewing! I once heard a sleep expert say that the average human being takes about 15-20 minutes to fall asleep and that if you fall asleep faster than that, you’re probably sleep deprived. Sleep deprived? Me? Doesn’t everyone function well on 4 hours of sleep? I’m not sure when I discovered that I like getting up at 4 a.m. There’s something about the quietness of the house that allows me to get more work done between 4 and 6 a.m. than I do the rest of the day. However, on nights when I don’t get to bed until midnight, that does reduce the number of actual hours sleeping. But I learned long ago that a catnap of anywhere from 5 to 45 minutes can really refresh and make me much more efficient. However, if I sleep long enough to enter REM sleep, then it’s more difficult to wake up without several hours of sleep, hence the feeling like I’m moving through molasses as I attempt to come to consciousness. That’s the feeling I've had since the phone rang at 6:15. I should be refreshed, but I just feel drugged, slowed, having a hard time concentzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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