Naps & Sundries
So it occurred to me the other day that I neglected to put one major thing in the last post: I STILL NAP. This makes my version of the "typical overworked monophaser" sleep-schedule a bit different from the norm; but it also illustrates that 20-minute naps can still be awesome in that context.
I don't nap with the kind of regularity I think would be best; I still get tired at my usual nap-times (unless I'm running too hard to notice), and if I'm going to snag a nap, it'll often be nearly where one of my naps would have been on Everyman 3. I never get more than one a day lately, though; but on the 3rd or 4th day of sleeping 4-6 hours at night, that nap can really save my skin. I don't wake up feeling perfectly rested like I'm used to, but it keeps me going.
Oh, and yes, I can still fall asleep really fast (in 2-3 minutes, max), and I still wake up fairly automatically after about 19 minutes. I set an alarm, but more often than not I wake up ahead of it - I deliberately set it a little past when I would normally wake up though, to give myself the chance to wake up naturally, and that generally works great. If I'm extra-tired, I may sleep through and the alarm will have to get me up.
Hm, come to think of it, I had a late night last night (went to my first convention, hung out with a bunch of great people - arguably Southeast Michigan's best! - and went swimming, yay), and I'm still recovering from a crazy week past and preparing for a crazy week to come…and I have about 40 minutes before I need to jump in the car & run…so maybe it's time for another 20 minutes of wonderfulness right now.
That's the thing with naps…especially once you learn to take them…you've got to get them when you can. When they're this short, that's pretty easy, thank goodness. And no, taking naps is not the same as being polyphasic; but it's better than being monophasic without them, if you ask me!
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In other, somewhat more personal news, my husband stumbled across this great article (he's awesome for that, among other things ;), written by a drug-treatment counselor with 20 years experience, on what the real causes and effects of treatment programs for teens are. As someone who was put through that exact thing when I was barely 14 - not over drugs, but general misbehavior - I could not more strongly urge parents, and future parents, to read this entire article and take what it says to heart. Agree with the drug message or not, the truth is that more often than not, such problems have deeper origins involving the whole family, and the worst thing you can do about them is pack your kid off to an institution…that's something I would pay a lot of money to impress on people. If you read the article because of this message, thank you!
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