A year of sleep
Today is a big day for me. I have achieved something that, when I begin it, I thought might only last a week or so: I kept a chart of my sleeping for a whole year.
Every night I take a mental note of the time when I switch the light off, and every morning, I look at the clock when I wake up; then stumble to the office to draw a vertical yellow line.
Why I began doing this, I don’t really know. What have I learned? Not much really. My sleep pattern seems to be pretty random. There have been a couple of conscious efforts during the year to get things more into line (trying to go to bed before 1am and wake up before 9am), but apart from that, it’s been a perfectly pointless exercise.
Still, I imagine I’ll continuing doing it, cos it has become part of my morning ritual; something that I now do without really thinking about it.
I like that little afternoon nap you had in Jan
Mark
11 Sep 07 at 11:57
I like the way you sleep.
Nice work!
s.
Anonymous
11 Sep 07 at 13:17
Them purdy yellow lines is making me tired.
D-Rod
Anonymous
11 Sep 07 at 13:40
Ha ha
I remember when you did this for a couple of weeks in about 1994-5
This is far more thorough.
Andrew
Andrew Drummond
11 Sep 07 at 15:20
Dear Diary..
August 11th 2007
“Woke up for half an hour at 6.30, thought ‘sod this or a laugh’ and went back to bed til midday”
bloody freelancers!
mark
11 Sep 07 at 17:21
I’d forgotten all about that, Andrew; but yes, I remember thinking about doing it back then.
Yes, Mark, it’s be a very different chart if I had a proper job.
Craig
12 Sep 07 at 16:14
It would be quite dull actually, wouldn’t it?
Mark
13 Sep 07 at 17:37
Just admit it’s another excuse to draw individual pixels.
Anonymous
13 Sep 07 at 23:59