But without sleep, all else fails

The past fortnight, I have:

  • Got to sleep at 1:32 AM on average, for 7 hours, 2 minutes’ worth of sleep a night. Earlier nights than last month, but definitely not early enough. The stats show I’m still behind on sleep, and I feel exhausted.
  • Made only four things:
    • A single scene of writing,
    • A poem,
    • A little bit of work organising a trip, and
    • A bit of work on my budget.
  • And I didn’t finish anything. I had hoped to finish a playthough of a video game, but it was consuming too much time and sleep and I made the decision to uninstall it it. It’s not yet clear if this has actually helped.

D&D was last week due to a schedule shift. The players are starting to turn the tide in their current dungeon, but the latest problem is one of my own NPCs trying to derail the plot. This must be stopped …

I just need to work out how!

Improving Everything But Sleep

Due to my last post being a day early, these stats are for two fortnights plus one day. These saw an excess of phone-related distractions, impacting sleep. But after cancelling a few commitments from last year, I have been more relaxed and productive generally.

Twenty-nine being a prime number, I was worried the averages would be tricky, but it came out quite cleanly:

  • I got to sleep an average of 2 hours after midnight, for 7 hours and 9 minutes’ sleep a night (both figures to the minute!). These are typical, but feel worse, possibly because they include lost sleep from a 3-a.m. work call.
  • I made 17 things (8.5 per fortnight). Ten were in the past 14 days alone, so the trend is an increase:
    • 4 evenings of D&D prep,
    • 4 pieces of writing (3 scenes and a poem),
    • it to 2 social events (the wedding, and wedding setup day),
    • 2 evenings of work on my tax,
    • 1 blog post (of an existing but unshared poem),
    • and one evening each of budget, appointments, trip planning, and helping sort my late father’s poetry.
  • And I finished A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, which was a nice enjoyable thriller – though of course with the dark turns you expect in a murder mystery. I didn’t read another book in the second fortnight, but I did go to see a surrealist art exhibition 🙂

The D&D game continues well, though the party have had a hard time of it lately, between escaped enemies and a couple of nasty undead fights.