Summer exhaustion
Dec. 23rd, 2013 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calissaI'm feeling a bit exhausted at the moment. The last week has not been kind. Editing and Christmas preparations have been keeping me busy, as I have mentioned before, but it is the pain levels and sleep deprivation that has been doing me in.
Summer has properly kicked into gear. Blackbirds sing outside my window in the hours before dawn. The daytime temperatures have been hovering around 37 Celsius/99 Fahrenheit. I spend every second evening watering the garden in the narrow window between the sun setting and the mosquitoes emerging, when the sky turns the most glorious shades of pink and gold. I've been drinking unsweetened iced tea by the jug. There don't seem to be many cicadas around my house, but there are droves at the university.
I'd had plans to celebrate the solstice but they had to be shelved when I discovered it was a high pain day. I spent it reading on the couch, instead--not a bad way to spend the day, just not the way I had hoped. There have been quite a few high pain days lately... and, more importantly, high pain nights. Combined with the increased daylight, I haven't been getting enough sleep. It's been enough to get by but it has had a bit of an effect on my mood and I am tiring out more quickly than I should.
Tomorrow is still theoretically business as usual for me, though my SO has finished work for the year and I may be seeing my grandma who is in town for Christmas. With some luck, I may yet get through some more editing before family takes over.
Summer has properly kicked into gear. Blackbirds sing outside my window in the hours before dawn. The daytime temperatures have been hovering around 37 Celsius/99 Fahrenheit. I spend every second evening watering the garden in the narrow window between the sun setting and the mosquitoes emerging, when the sky turns the most glorious shades of pink and gold. I've been drinking unsweetened iced tea by the jug. There don't seem to be many cicadas around my house, but there are droves at the university.
I'd had plans to celebrate the solstice but they had to be shelved when I discovered it was a high pain day. I spent it reading on the couch, instead--not a bad way to spend the day, just not the way I had hoped. There have been quite a few high pain days lately... and, more importantly, high pain nights. Combined with the increased daylight, I haven't been getting enough sleep. It's been enough to get by but it has had a bit of an effect on my mood and I am tiring out more quickly than I should.
Tomorrow is still theoretically business as usual for me, though my SO has finished work for the year and I may be seeing my grandma who is in town for Christmas. With some luck, I may yet get through some more editing before family takes over.
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Date: 2013-12-23 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-23 09:05 pm (UTC)I hope you are doing okay, as well.