I don’t know what it is with me and my sleeping pattern. Since I quit my job I’ve fallen into this weird routine which is more of a total lack of any routine at all. Since I don’t have to get up in the morning, I don’t. I used to work until 2:30 PM but now most days I wake up later than that.
If I get to sleep without being disturbed I sleep for twelve hours straight. I’m not kidding. Obviously when I worked I never slept for that many hours a day since going to bed at 8 in the evening is a little bit too early. Now when I don’t work I go to bed late, sleep for twelve hours, wake up late and then repeat. Mostly at least. The thing is I sometimes try to set myself back to a normal day rhythm but even when I get up at a decent time I still stay up until at least 3 AM. Just because I can.
Besides, I’ve got a new lovely friend. Coffee. Not a new friend really. Me and coffee have been friends for many years but in the past few weeks we’ve become really good friends. When I’m tired but is too busy to sleep I drink coffee. I used to have one cup a day. Now I have a minimum of five but sometimes up to eight. And I’m not talking those little ridiculous cups with flower patterns that old ladies love, oh no I’m talking large mugs, each containing 2 dl.
I’ll try to get up at a decent time from now on though since yesterday was my first day of school. I do all my studying online but I still think it’s a good idea to get up around 12 PM, start my studying and then be done with it in the evening. So far it’s easy as a pie but I expect that will become more difficult pretty soon. At least when it comes to the Animation With Flash course. The CSS-based Web Design course seems really, really really easy. My first assignment is to create a XHTML document and a CSS document and set up things like background colour, font size etc. The very basics of CSS that is. Well that’s nice! This means I can spend most of my time studying Flash, which I contrary to CSS know nothing about.
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I am starting to drink more coffee recently too,
I am glad that you had a good start with school! I am doing nothing to work my mind at the moment, except for some German, seeing that I’m on a year off.. but I’m loving it all the same
Flash is so awesome, I’d love to learn how to do that. I’m envious of your classes.
Since I work at home now I was starting to get an odd sleeping pattern myself, it got to the point where I was staying up ALL night and I got tired of it. I found out though the best way to change it is to give yourself an incentive to get up at a certain time, like if i get up earlier I’ll have time to do something fun before I have to take care of responsibilities. That worked for me anyway. Jess is on 2nd shift now and I wanted to see him more often so I changed it again so I can be up later.
Caffeine and I are great friends. We should all hang out some time!
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My sleeping pattern is shitty as well. I end up being “up all night, and sleeping all day”.
Good luck studying Flash:)
I wish I had that problem! Ever since I quit smoking almost a month ago, I cannot sleep for the life of me. If I get 3 hours a night without waking up I am happy now!
when your schedule changes your sleeping pattern usually gets out of whack. for winter break i have no school and no work; I was sleeping in till 4PM sometimes. crazy.
I too love coffee.
First off, I
the new layout. It’s so pretty.
Well, I can sometimes sleep for twelve hours. But I’ve been trying real hard to kick that shit in the ass, and i have the dark circles to prove it. Though from everything I’ve read it says that we should just let ourselves sleep for as long as we need, but i don’t know. I love coffee, but i have a hard time drinking a lot of it. I’m kind of addicted to water.
I really want to learn flash, there’s so much cool stuff you can do with it.
My boyfriend has the same problem, I don’t understand how one can sleep for 12hours straight, day after day? I can barely make 10, even if I’m dead tired, it’s odd. But routines are healthy, good luck with getting one! Sounds like you got a plan though!
I think you’ll need the time for studying flash on your own! For my flash class we had to make an interactive movie. At one point, I got stuck and I searched for 8 hours straight to solve the problem but couldn’t find it… Or I’m just stupid, that’s also possible! Anywhoo, good luck with it, it can be a though program at times…
I love smelling coffee, not drinking it. I tried HARD to like the flavor but I CAN’T. I hope my taste buds would change eventually.
I used to wake up at around 7 in the morning especially in the summer despite not having any classes and even after having only three-six hours of sleep. No matter how late I slept I always woke up before 9AM. Things have changed these days though, and I always wake up at around 11AM. And I don’t like the feeling of waking up at lunchtime. For some reason I find myself so grouchy.
That’s awesome that you get to study web design stuff. I would have enjoyed doing that. Sometimes I wonder why I didn’t go into that instead of going into teaching. I do think it would be a good idea for you to start getting yourself on a regular sleep schedule. But I know how hard it is to do when you have no reason for doing it.
That’s how I am whenever I’m not in classes. If I don’t need to get up, I won’t. Over the summer, I got into the habit of sleeping fourteen hours.
Good luck with classes!
Can you let me know what wp plugin you use to show all of the plugs on each post? I’ve been googling but I can’t find it. Thanks!
i think it’s not because of coffee.. but in a way, maybe.. it depends on what coffee do you take.. in my case frappuccinos can make me sleep sometimes.. just dont drink coffee before going to bed.. and whoa.. 12 hours?? really?
whoa. That’s a lot of coffee! My sleeping patterns are off as well, really, I’m nocturnal and it sucks that my life is really most active during the day because if it were at night, I’d totally be at peace.
Är 2dl-koppar stora? :s
I think it’s great that your courses are going good so far! I wanted to take a few CSS/xHTML courses myself, as a nearby college offers classes which revolve around them, but I was worried it’d be too basic, and I wouldn’t learn anything … It seems they only have the SUPER basic classics, and then the SUPER advanced classes that deal with actual computer programming like C++ … Nothing in between!
And of course, they offer some Flash courses, as well, but like you, I dn’t know too much about flash. I do though that it can’t be very hard to learn about though, because my middle youngest brother has been making Flash animations since he was about seven or eight! And my eldest younger brother, as well. Both of them have actually created their own Flash games from scratch, in fact. O_O;
So, it musn’t be too difficult … Oh! And I just remembered that ActionScript, the scripting you use to program more ‘advanced’ Flash animations, looks a LOT like JavaScript … And JavaScript isn’t too hard, either. At least it isn’t hard to modify pre-existing codes, anyway, LOL.