Ok... I'm on my third sleepless night this week. I don't know what the deal is. It's like I just cannot shut my brain off and go to sleep. On the nights that I do actually get to sleep, it doesn't happen until around 2 or 3, which means I'm either asleep til noon or pass out at some point the next day. I know that the sleeping late is causing the problem, but I just can't fix it. I thought I had yesterday though. I didn't sleep at all Wednesday night, and managed to stay awake most of the day Thursday. That night around 8:30, I took a sleeping pill and crashed. Slept soundly until about 7, then got up and got some stuff done. It was very nice, and I thought I'd be able to keep it up. But, of course, here I sit, wide awake! This is SO annoying! I love getting up early and getting a fresh start to the day, but I can't do that when I'm still awake at 3:20 in the morning! I've tried everything! Warm milk, white noise on the radio, relaxing music, watching PBS... hell, I even counted sheep, but nothing! I know the sleeping pill will work, but I don't like taking them. I'm afraid I'll get addicted to them, and will never sleep naturally again. What do you guys do when you can't sleep? I'm desperate for advice!In my futile attempts to sleep, I've thought about a few goals I want to accomplish this summer. Most are fitness goals, but I have a few others.
1) I really want to be able to jog 3 miles in 30 minutes by the time Fall Semester begins. I know this is doable, I just have to focus on that goal and probably lose a few pounds in the process. Next semester (if all goes well), I will only have a limited amount of time to get my workouts in and 30 minutes for a run is about all I can spare. Otherwise, I'll have to do the runs at night, and I don't like doing that, mostly because of increased pedestrian traffic around campus and the fact that I think these late afternoon runs is what is causing my insomnia. Anyway, I know that I can do this.
2) Also, by the time the Fall begins, I'd like to be down to 200 pounds. Currently, I'm hovering between 235 and 245 (I don't know if it's the scale, water weight, or what), but I really can tell in my face and belly that I am losing though it may not be showing up on the scale.
3) This is more for academic purposes, but I really want to increase the rate at which I can read. It takes me forever to read a book, if I even finish it. I don't know why, but I've never really had an interest in reading for long periods of time. Don't get me wrong I really enjoy reading. So long as what I am reading is in a short form like articles and blogs. I could do that all day! And when studying, I can focus on text books and notes, so long as I'm in an absolutely quite room free of distractions. But as far as actually sitting down and reading a book just for the fun of it, cover to cover in a reasonable amount of time, I just can't do it. I don't know if I'm ADD and can't focus, if I just lose interest, or what. But, I'd really like to be able to read one book every one to two weeks (depending on the size and how much reading is involved in my summer classes). I'm thinking that if I take the book and divide the number of chapters the chapters up, say one chapter a day, or whatever, I'll be able to do it. I literally have an entire library of half read books, that I'd like to finish someday.
Well anyway, that's it from me today. I'm hoping to have the Club 8, Weekly Running Report, and a Running to Disney update and hopefully an AZ immigration law (Amanda? Hello?)/Gulf Oil Spill (ugh...)/Sestak (hee hee!) rant over on the Rant blog up by the end of the weekend.
Alright... back to bed. Goodnight!
