As predicted

[caddyman]

It's not eleven in the morning yet and already the predictions for the day are fulfilling themselves.

Lack of sleep has turned my eyeballs to dry, dusty pebbles that grate and scrape whenever I blink or in anyway move them. I ache from the tips iof my fingers to the nape of my neck and if I close my eyes for a second too long I can feel myself nodding off. The only time I cannot sleep, it seems, is at night in bed. I seem to be hot, too, though thed weather is quite clearly much cooler than of late and I am anyway in an air -conditioned office. I think my humours are in imbalance, though which of the blood, yellow bile, black bile or phlegm needs draining off is anyone's guess. Doctors don't hold much store by this eminently sensible system any more. Quacks.

Of course, being one averse to being prodded and punctured at the best of times, I should be more grateful that medical science has moved on. I don't want anything drained, ta very much. Maybe not quacks, then; a bit more respect. Mountebanks and charlatans, perhaps.

Again, I am too stern with them, too disrespectful. Especially as a day or two more of this and I shall be in need of potions, ungents or linaments from said august profession.

Comments

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

Excuse me! but dehydration is the most common cause of insomnia. My cousin Russ, who teaches brain gym - look it up on the internet - told me that the reason I wasn't sleeping was that I didn't drink enough water before going to bed. He would drink about threequarters of a pint and then refill the glass and take it with him to drink as he read a bit and settled down for the night.
I have now taken to doing the same thing and always drink at least half a pint of water before going up to bed and I take a small bottle of water with me - we now have a cat that like to drink from anything except his own water bowl so we take bottles cos he hasn't learned how to unscrew the tops yet.
Try it for a few days - it took me about a week to get my fluid levels up, and reduce the amount of caffiene you are taking it is a bad drug very addictive

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It was the fat brain comment that led to the fat head response, not the sage wisdom about dehydration per se.

If you knew romney better, you'd understand. He doesn't take umbrage, he appreciates being kept in his place.