Insomnia is Bad, I don't recommend it

[dorchadas]

I went to bed at midnight last night but couldn't fall asleep until 3 a.m. Originally I thought the guy who lives below me was having a party or something, because I kept hearing music and laughing and people's voices, but I went out into the living room and I didn't hear anything, so I think he just fell asleep with the TV on or something. I listened to a few meditations, I read Twitter with the screen accessibility brightness hack, I tried visualizations, but nothing worked, until I turned on my Rain Rain "city rain, cat purring, sound of a dryer" mix, which finally worked. And then I woke up at 7:30 a.m. and I'm still exhausted.

Sigh.

After the Anime Chicago Sampler on Saturday, I went off to eat dinner and then got back online for smtemp's birthday! She was hosting an anime power hour, so people got out beers (I finished off about one ounce from each of four almost-empty liquor bottles) and we watched an old power hour video that bret.thomas.391 had made for an ACEN past. And then we watched a Disney power hour on YouTube, and part of more anime, and then seloy shared her screen and we looked at old photos for hours. I wasn't in any of them--most of them were from before I started hanging out with the suburban friends, or while I lived in Japan--but it was still great. Group Zoom calls that are just discussions I'm less of a fan of, but something where we'll all focused on a unifying activity? Those are great.

I also ducked out for a while to go talk on Discord with some of the Anime Chicago people, which was similarly lovely. A small group discussion--made smaller by some of the people zoning out--after an afternoon of watching anime. 最高.

I had mentioned going on a walk on Friday, and on Sunday, britshlez texted me during my Japanese lesson saying that she was nearby on a dog walk and asking if I wanted to walk for a bit. I came out, we got take-out margaritas at Cescas Margarita Bar & Grill, and then walked south on a side street, down through St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery, past a group of decorated cars in a procession driving past the home of a girl having a birthday, and over to her house. She went off to see her sister, who just had a baby and is having a hard time, and since I was already down near where worldbshiny and lisekatevans live, I texted one and then the other. Apparently, though, it was such a nice day that everyone had the same idea--both of them had already been out on walks and gotten back not that long before. worldbshiny and I made plans to walk next weekend, and lisekatevans suggested we walk or video chat sometime this week, so The weather is supposed to be gorgeous all this week, so there will be time.

And then I went home, ordered ramen from Blowfish because I didn't want to cook, played Stellaris, and tried to sleep. It didn't quite work, and now I'm exhausted, but I'm here. I guess that's a victory, nowadays?

Comments

[helvetica]

I'm glad you are finding ways to keep up some socializing!! A take-out margarita sounds amazing right now!!!

I hope you get a better sleep tonight! :)

[dorchadas]

Thanks! I went to bed early and slept really well last night, so it worked!

I'm still tired, but that probably just means I need to go to bed early tonight too.