No chance of dreams
I haven’t slept properly for days. I can live with being tired, irritable, slightly irrational and deeply stupid. Not happily, but I can live with it. As can everyone else, just about. But recently I have just about lost my sense of humour too. As well as turning me into a bitch on wheels, it also makes it so very, very hard to write.
I hadn’t realised how much I depended on feeling witty. Even when I’m not trying to write anything particularly humorous. Even when I am being painfully serious. [My main task then is to excise all sarcastic asides and frivolous punstering, as and when they occur - Ed]. I don’t think I particularly set out to be funny in any case, though I have been known to do a Billy Connolly and laugh so hard at something I’ve just come up with that I can barely type it.
(Well? [Well, what?] I would have thought that the above was a golden opportunity for you to add something caustic. [No, not really.] Oh).
The past few days said sense of humour is down to its last, muddy and unsatisfactory dregs. There are three or four Big Posts I am working on - wishing I was working on, at any rate - but trapped here in this stale, flat and unprofitable, and above all disproportionate world, I just can’t do it. I need a decent night’s sleep.
[It's not so bad. Really, it's not so bad. One of her novels is recrudescing. It's like wisdom teeth. She'll be fine if she gets some sleep. I've kept her off coffee today, and I've sent the husband out to buy Kalms. - Ed]
You see? Even the Editor is being kind to me. I’m bloody doomed, I am.
August 1st, 2006 at 11:13 pm
The editor must be suffering from the lack of sleep as well. I hope the reduction in heat and humidity helps in the whole sleeping thing. I’ve had periods of no sleep, and I appreciate how very little fun there is in the whole experience.
Fingers crossed for decent sleep and an accompanying surge in wit and bonhomie. I’d offer some helpful advice if I had any.
David
August 2nd, 2006 at 6:47 am
Loss of humour is a miserable thing to go through, not to mention loss of sleep. Big hug. Hope the Kalms worked.
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:24 am
“You’re edgy, miserable and tired. You’re in the perfect mood for journalism.”
- fictional journalist Spider Jerusalem in Transmetropolitan
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:35 am
It’s been too hot to sleep properly for weeks here. And it does affect humour and creativity. The ability to focus and concentrate just evaporates. At the moment I can hardly find the energy to even be properly miserable.
August 2nd, 2006 at 7:54 pm
I hope the coffein deprivation helps… * fingers crossed *
sunny, regular lurker
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Hope this soon passes. The longer it goes on - the sleep deprivation - the harder it is to recover from, she says from bitter experience.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Sleep? Wassat?
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:34 pm
To dream, perchance to sleep - ay there’s the rub
November 27th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
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