Thread: Exhaustion

I'm a bit tired...I haven't quite managed to adjust my sleeping yet. I am still trying to adjust to getting up at 5 AM and making sure I get to bed early enough to be functional. Young Spooky is actually a bit happier- now I get up and let him out, when, to his way of thinking, I am supposed to. Hopefully I'll be set in the school-year pattern by next week.

I haven't left the school building before 5 pm in the last three weeks. I've worked all of the weekends in between, but I think I'm about caught up.

Last night when Ron came home and I hadn't started dinner, he did offer to go get some. Then he looked at me really long and said, "why don't you just go ahead and go to bed." Well, we did go ahead and eat dinner first.

I don't know. I think my body has given up on sleep. I usually go to bed now at about 6:30 and wake up again at 10:30/11:00. Then I drag myself off to bed and stay awake until midnight, then sleep for about an hour, wake for two, sleep for one, until the radio comes on at 6am. Then I get up and go to school. But I also suffer from PTSD and one of the symptoms is nightmares so that is what wakes me more than anything else.

It's really annoying, particularly on nights like tonight. It is careers evening from 7 - 9pm. Unfortunately that is my "bedtime" so it's going to be fun trying to inform people all about media while fighting the yawns.

School hasn't even started yet and I am exhausted. Out of the seven subjects I teach, I have FIVE new text books. We have a new principal who seems to be very nice, but still an adustment after 15 years with the last. I am trying (unsuccessfully) to finish my presentation for a conference in October. We are in the midst of selling the church and school and as congregational secretary I am involved in a lot of meetings. We do home visits, which are rewarding, but VERY time consuming.

I am exhausted and I don't even have the kids yet.

Xyphir, take it from an insomniac, DO NOT TAKE A NAP AFTER WORK. Seriously. Go out, do something, take a walk, get some light excercise, but do something besides sleep. It will take a few days but your body will adjust slowly. Create a night time ritual that is relaxing and one you look forward too. FOr me this includes snuggling with my son reading him a bed time story, then sitting outside for a half an hour listening to the night sounds. I even do this in the dead of winter.


Actually I am doing alright. The beginning of the year panic is subsiding.

Usually I'm fine the first week, but by the end of the second week, my tail is draggin'! :lol:

This year I managed to get the third week cold that always seems to go around, so I feel pretty draggy today.

I have a friend who's a teacher that I Civil War reenacted with and got my masters degree with. I swear that dude NEVER sleeps! It's nothing to get emails from him at 1 in the morning or later. I remember while in grad school he'd go 2 days without sleeping (and he's married with kids too). Astounding!

Me, I get my 8 hours without fail, period. That way I'm in full flavor when I'm awake and get a lot more done. Not only that, I'm a bigger jerk when I DON'T get my sleep, if that's possible. In short, I'm a wuss and gotta sleep regular.

I think the thing is to fight through the pain of mental exhaustion. That's what we're really talking about in this business - mental exhaustion. In addition, I'm a creature of anal retentive habit right from the rip, so "adjusting" isn't so much of a big deal to me, because I get my 8 regardless.

Oh, my brother, the principal, is a "sleep martyer" like my friend I mentioned above. 4-6 hours a night if he's lucky. Damn near killed him, but he's still doing it. Simply amazing!

CSW

I try to get seven- during the school year I only sleep in on weekends. A lot of nights I get perhaps 5, if I don't discipline myself. But I pay for it- I've had weekends where I've been so tired I'll sleep 10-11 hours.

a teacher that I Civil War reenacted with

Just as an aside, that has to be an incredibly awkward sentence construction....

That's why I majored in history, not english! Hey, it isn't THAT bad!!!! Bit of a run on maybe? If you lived my life, you'd be suprised to be able to write at all! Wahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

C (Dazed and Confused) Stan White