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March 10, 2008
Daylight Savings Sleep Deprivation
I've gotten into this totally weird sleep cycle since Friday night. I ended up having this long phone conversation with a friend of mine that started kind of serious but ended up being really good and energizing but left me at 1 am not feeling tired at all. I ended up reading the past year's worth of both Daredevil and DMZ, both comics that I enjoy but have obviously fallen way behind on. And hey, guess what? They're still both quite good. Now someday soon (maybe another sleepless night?) I'll go through that huge unread pile of 100 Bullets issues, which I might even be two years behind on.
Then Saturday night my brother Matt and I went out to get Smash Brothers Brawl for our Wii's. We'd bought them earlier in the day but couldn't pick them up 'til midnight. I'll talk about that more in my Media Glutton tomorrow, but while we were waiting we went to Passtimes over in Gulf Gate and saw two really fun punk bands play. We missed the first band, but the second, The In-Crowd is a local Bradenton band and they were fun. Then came on Whole Wheat Bread, an awesome trio from Jacksonville who rocked. I'd forgotten how much I love the energy of a good live punk show, almost more than any other kind of musical experience.
So of course Matt and I stayed up late playing Smash Brothers. And then got freaked out by the time change which happened on my tivo and cable box automatically so we didn't notice and thought we'd been playing a lot longer than we actually had been. Didn't get to sleep 'til after 4 that night either.
Then last night I went over to Kent's to run my usual Call of Cthulhu/Adventure! RPG session, which never runs too late. Home by 11, answered some e-mails, and then watched the final hour and a half of The Wire. It was of course great, more on that tomorrow too, but I was so keyed up about the whole thing, so sad and excited and unsure what to do next, that again I couldn't get to sleep until like 3.
And I know everybody loves the daylight savings time because there's more light in the evening after work, and I guess this is where the whole writer-who-works-at-home thing shows through, because I actually like the non-savings time. I like having more night at night, as I get plenty of day during the day. But that's just me. And it's also just because I live in Florida and don't have to deal with long, dark, gray, evil winters. I know when I lived in Ohio I felt the exact opposite for sure...
Posted by rdakan at March 10, 2008 03:16 PM