catnaps

[auntiemeesh]

I've come to realize something about Saturdays. I'm really just going to mostly sleep through them. I did get up and go into Squirrel Hill for a little bit of shopping this morning. I bought a couple of books and then relaxed at Panera eating an early lunch while starting one of the books. But the timing thing with the buses continues to elude me, so I didn't have enough time to go to the grocery store and buy real food, so a quick stop at Rite Aid for kitty litter and milk had to suffice. Back home, I felt so ridiculously sleepy (despite getting what seemed like a decent enough eight and a half or nine hours of sleep) that I ended up taking a two and a half or three hour nap, killing the entire afternoon.

I never used to feel so terribly tired all the time, and I'm not much enjoying it. I was looking at sample interview questions the other day (oddly not on purpose - it was a document I came across while doing archiving at work) and one of the questions was 'tell me about a recent weekend. What did you plan and what did you do?' This was to gauge the applicant's level of energy. I would totally fail that sort of question. I have plenty of energy to do my job during the course of the week, but I lately need a lot of downtime on the weekends. I should probably start taking vitamins or something.

Anyway.

Books. I bought How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets, by Garth Stein. I started reading it while eating lunch and it's making a promising beginning.

I also picked up German Demystified. I've been wanting to relearn German for quite awhile now (German was my foreign language of choice in high school, but that was a long time ago), and now that I've gone and applied for a job in Germany, it seemed like a reasonable time to go ahead and buy a book. But it's more a personal desire for a project than out of any expectation that I'll be needing it in the near future.

Comments

[whtmtnwmn.livejournal.com]

Squirrel Hill--makes me smile every time. I keep picturing furry critters running around...grabbing their nuts. :)

Good luck with that German!
=D

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

It's funny to think of Squirrel Hill as a funny name. I don't remember if it ever struck me that way.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty apt description, actually. There really are a lot of squirrels around here. :)

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

I think it is perfectly reasonable to want to sleep a lot on weekends (not that I ever end up doing so). Most Americans get way too little sleep during the week, so we are a sleep deprived nation by the time the weekend rolls around. Do you really want to be out and about with all those cars driven by near zombies on the road? I think not!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think that even when I don't wake up during the night, I'm possibly not sleeping very well. Maybe I'll do a sleep study someday. In the far distant, hypothetical future.