So.. I fell asleep on the way home from work today*. I dozed in and out for the whole drive, exhausted. I don't know why I was so tired, I had gotten a fair amount of sleep, but there I sat, too tired to stay awake. The few times I did pop into consciousness, I kept thinking I have a ton of work to do when I get home, so I better not go lay in bed and sleep.
Luckily (for the sake of the work I had to do) by the time I got home, I was awake enough to put in four hours of overtime and do the dishes. The problem? Now I'm not sleepy. Tired? Yes. But I can't sleep. I get like this, like my sleep schedule is way off. I will find myself unable to sleep for the life of me, but I'm so tired I can't use the time awake for anything productive. And then after I finally do sleep, I wake up still tired, but a day ahead of me full of more work to do.
It's a terrible place to be in and I don't understand it at all. I used to be the type of person who could get away with just a few hours of sleep a night, and then somehow I morphed into a ten-hour-a-night sleeper. At one point it flip-flopped back and forth, either I needed nine to ten hours (or more!) or I could be fine with six. Now it seems regardless of how much or little I sleep, I'm tired and my brain doesn't work right.
Maybe it's too many hours working, maybe it's too much stress over things in my life. Instead of changing all that (hey, why take the easy answer??) maybe I will try to exercise more, that's supposed to help with both more energy and sleeping better, isn't it? Plus, I do need to work on future marathons...
*Josh was driving, don't worry.
