Re: What truly inane activities do you waste time on?

[Anonymous]

Hi sugargremlin,

The timer and time tracking are by the wayside this week – I went off the meds a week ago because I have a sleep study consultation next week and I needed to get back to my non-medicated normal state of poor sleep, lack of impulse control, etc so I can be realistic about what’s going on.

I’ve been staying up way too late (my usual pattern), waking up during the night, getting up late, feeling groggy when I do, cruising on the internet in the morning, and in general getting to work about an hour and a half later than usual, and then not getting to “real” work at work until the afternoon (I work for myself, good thing or I’d have been fired long ago). And I do what I feel like doing rather than what I should be doing (meaning I get waylaid by “great ideas” and start planning and researching worthless ideas). By 7 at night I am yawning but still can’t fall asleep when I do go to bed. I also surf in the evenings to try to stay awake. That’s still dangerous because it usually leads to more “great ideas” or leads me way down the garden path on any of my previous “great ideas”.

I just can’t bring myself to track that lack of effort and discipline, but at least now I know there’s a reason for it.

I also have a 25 page questionnaire to turn in for the sleep consultation too, it seems very daunting at the moment. The instructions say to fill it out at one sitting but that’s nearly impossible – I always seem to come up against one question or another that stops me in my tracks because I don’t know how to answer it.

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