Relative time is always a challenge for nocturnally inclined. Though I find it somewhat amusing that delving into this storyline seems to have either caused or possibly solidified a fairly night-owl schedule for you. Life imitating art and all that.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "If you start hissing at the sun, though, you may want to check for bite marks."

Oh, I've always been a night person, but it is true that, particularly in the first surge of this project, for a while there it seemed like nothing wanted to get written except at around the time of night it would have been happening.

Right now the situation is even more unstable than usual owing to the fact that I'm on the downslope of a steroid-burst-and-taper to treat an MS flareup, and prednisone is many things, but a sleep aid is not one of them. For instance, I just spent the last... what... 10 hours or so in bed, and I think I was actually asleep for maybe two? And not all in one bloc. :/

--G.
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Insomnia: the prize fight where you lose if you don't get knocked out. I now expect some period of time where you replicate, roughly, the scene from the Core stories where visitors disturbing your sleep are threatened with summary disintegration (though I suppose IRL the closest analog would be perforation instead.) Hopefully it comes soon, I'm not sure if the creative process is helped by sleep-deprivation-induced vision quests.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Probably a bonus to creativity, but a massive reduction in coherence."

I reported the problem to my neurologist's nurse this afternoon, and he said that as it's an 18-day taper that I'm on day 2 of, it's a legitimate concern, then joked, "On the other hand, you'd probably get a lot done!" We ultimately agreed that the quality of the work would not likely be acceptable, and he said to try diphenhydramine. (Which always amuses me when a medical person suggests it, because it says right on the label "don't use this as a sedative". :) So that's my plan for later tonight.

--G.
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That is probably there just for legal purposes, since I've seen some sleep aids with it as the active ingredient, though not recently so they might have axed that usage without medical advice.

Also Firefox spellcheck wants to correct that drug name to 'methamphetamine' which is... pretty much the entire opposite end of the pharmacological spectrum.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Diphenhydramine: can't sneeze if you're not conscious."

I think I remember being told once that the message is mainly there in an attempt to prevent parents from drugging their children willy-nilly with it. Which, well, fair enough.

--G.
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