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Rules for living: More about sleep

Rules for Living #7: Bedtime matters
Bedtime - there's more to it than it being that thing you do after South Park on Fox29 at 11.30 and maybe a bit of King of the Hill at midnight.
My naturopath tells me
1. That each hour of sleep before midnight is actually worth two hours
2. There are some hormones that need to regenerate themselves and such early in one's sleep that happens before midnight.
Both of these facts assume one gets any sleep before midnight. However, my sluggishness appears to be a function of my adrenal glands being out of whack, and the best way to get them to behave is to have a regular bedtime and a regular waking time. Ha. I think the last time I had those was before our favourite 80s pop music icons with "George" in their name were gay. (Pls do not mistake this installment of Rules for Living as a gay bash. This is not where this is going. Just that at that time, few pop icons had come out, ergo they were not selves that are gay as part of who they are, but rather selves closeted for the sake of their careers. You know what I mean. There's plenty more. Like those with "Elton" in their name or say "Liberace" or "Rock Husdon", although describing the latter two as 80s pop icons is not so much a stretch as much as flat out dimentia on my part.) But I digress. So, apparently the out of alignment adrenal gland is responsible for all kinds of things that I assume are normal, like chaotic bursts of energy, on the verge of passing out lulls of consciousness, general feelings of lack of oxygen to my brain etc. Have, in the past week, tried tres tres hard to go to bed around 11, and am doing okay, but waking time still get's me every time. At least I am consistent in my 10hrs of sleep each and every night, but it's getting a bit tiresome that I can't get up and get moving before 9am ever, unless I e.g. have a flight to catch.
I have offloaded responsibility for my lack of ability to get up to society at large for failing to give me a job that requires I be somewhere at sometime. Not too early - 9.30 or 10 is as low as I am willing to go - but still, I am very very productive once behind a desk. One that belongs to you. Your company. Your company that pays me to work for you, that recognizes I am worthy of a wage fitting my experience and education. That desk. There.

Rules for living: How this shit works

Rule #6: Template for life. At least for tomorrow
I started school 21 months ago, and I have only just figured out what is the "template" of my day. In typical ox fashion. True, in the past I have had classes and teaching and such in the way that have prevented me from taking absolute ownership of the whole day. [Yes, I know that I was technically a "teaching assistant", but the prof for whom I TAed did very little to engage his TAs in these little essential teaching thingies called "curriculum" and "syllabi" so I was on my own. All "T" and no "A" as we say in the biz.]
Anyway, I shant keep the six of you waiting any longer. Taa-daa. The template for my day. Please borrow and adjust as you see fit should you too be one of those humans who can spend three hours deciding where to go for coffee and a mere 15 minutes reading when you get there.

How this shit works
Morning is for "work." If you had a job, it would go here. May include, for now, things like apply for jobs, household responsiblities that need a phone, and when you are done with those, writing the major paper / AAG / global cities chapter. Also includes paper reading and errands. Any research project work is done in this time.
Afternoon is for "writing". For now major paper / AAG / global cities chapter.
6-10ish is for "non-school" E.g. house time, eating, swimming, errands, because you are useless at this time for other stuff. Note that crazy-lady letter writing does not constitute as "writing". Crazy lady indulgence is delegated to "non-school" portion of day.
10-12 or 1 is for reading. Not for sitting in front of computer thinking you may start to work at any minute. No, reading, and as you read you make notes so that you can type them in "work" or "writing" time the next day.

As you will see, it is now something in the neighbourhood of five to ten minutes past 10 pm. Time to quit self indulgence and get to my Post-Fordism reader. Note that Megan is holding all my MultiWorld calls, but I'll call you back within the next two business days.

An invitation to never again leave the house

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