Insomnia

The last couple days I've been having frustrating bouts of insomina.

Now to clarify I am a pretty weird sleeper, staying up late and sleeping mornings because I write at night, and sometimes taking naps because my medication has a side effect of sudden, intense drowsiness a few hours after waking for the day. But we cut my medication and I haven't needed to nap in the last few weeks.

Preparing for the trip along with a difficult period while editing book 2 has resulted in physical exhaustion, but I can't sleep alongside it even though I want to. Normally when I'm awake at 3:17 am I'm actually quite awake, as my creativity peaks between 2 am and 5 am, and writing. Instead I've just been tired, and wanting to go to bed and stay there, but unable to actually sleep. I would read, but my eyes are tired and my mind is unfocused. The result is more TV watching than normal, as it doesn't require me being upright. Man, television gets strange at 3 am. I'd forgotten that when I gave up watching most television and instead watched things on my computer. I know that the small business owners hawking their terrible "as seen on TV" products and the enzyte commercials started at 10 or 11, but I didn't know public access television still existed unironically.

Pre-trip jitters, I'm sure. India will be so exhausting I will not have problems sleeping at night. I generally don't while traveling.