… and I mean that in a good way.
Rough travel day yesterday, though Stockholm to Oslo flight takes only an hour.
I never have trouble falling asleep at bedtime, but sometimes a hotel room wakes me up long before dawn. Getting up to “check email” or news ends up in surfing webstuff for braindead hours and spending the day afterward in zombie mode.
Two things often work, in case you’re ever in the same boat.
First, silly peaceful alphabet games as I lie in bed with my eyes shut, trying to sleep. My favorite is “Alabaster Botticelli”–four-syllable words such that syllables one and three start with two successive alphabet letters. I don’t have the whole sequence yet–no, no, don’t tell me!–but I like to keep trying. If that gets frustrating, thinking up a tree or flower name for every letter works just as well.
Second, if that doesn’t work, some work reading (hard-copy only) or writing (on paper) relaxes me with the feeling I’m being productive but doesn’t galvanize bits of me into let’s-do-this-for hours.
Last night I exhausted (haha) both methods in sequence–but still did not get enough hours of zzzz. This cat, however, has just given me a truly great idea…