I've gotten some sun and now I think it's almost time for bed - my sleeping is outrageously effed up, as usual. I'll probably wake up around the time Richard leaves for work, then stay up til noon again tomorrow. Thank God my hard-won doctor appointment is at the end of this week. (I had to call this clinic about fifteen times to make an appointment; they always had some reason why I should "call back in a few days") My dream is to get another referral (the first one inexplicably vanished) to a dr. who specializes in sleep medicine. After nearly 20 years of weird sleeping patterns and sleep-related problems I finally faced up to the fact that - "hey, maybe I have a sleep disorder!" Doy. Ah, well. No one's ever accused me of being bright.
Our weird little handyman, Manfred, is hosing down the windows today, so that saves me one spring cleaning job. Now I just have to clean the blinds and get rid of some of the trillion magazines we've both accumulated over the years.
The Satanic panic research & writing has been coming along nicely. This week I'm compiling a list of people I'd like to interview (local ministers, professors, etc.) and working out some questions, tho I won't contact anyone until late summer-early fall. I just want to be prepared. I've done interviews for some theatre-related writing, but I've never interviewed people for one of my own projects. I'm half-finished reading The Devils of Loudun and I now know why the Urbain Grandier witchcraft trial has been given more attention than all other (nearly identical) French witchcraft trials combined: It was the only one in which Cardinal Richelieu took any interest.
This evening I'll hit the videostores, find out if anyone has Ken Russell's The Devils with Lynn Redgrave. I'm in a Lynn Redgrave kinda mood, anyway - I've had the theme from Georgy Girl running through my head for three days...
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Re. possible sleep disorder: you too, eh?
I recently did my own research and figured out I have something called delayed sleep phase syndrome. I was not surprised when I read the typical characteristics of this - I have pretty much all of them.
I was told for years (and I can trace my sleep problems back to kindergarten) that my sleep issues had something to do with other things going on in my life, and only about a year ago did I finally convince my doctor I have this DSPS thing. I take a low dose of Nozinan, but as I'm moving back to BC next week, will have to put off going to a sleep clinic for proper diagnosis until God knows when.
Good luck, though. Sleep issues are bloody terrible, and I hope you get them resolved.
OMG, that's exactly what I have! I say "insomnia" to make it easier for other people to understand, but it's actually DSPS. It took me two years to get my dr. to help me with it, then my referral to a university dr. of sleep medicine fell through somehow. My sleeping problems seemed to begin when I was about 7. It was just a little less than two years ago when I realized I could have a sleep disorder, and when I stumbled on a description of DSPS it was basically a list of my sleep problems.
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