{"id":828,"date":"2014-01-08T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/wordpress\/autisticme\/?p=828"},"modified":"2023-11-26T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:33:24","slug":"lack-of-sleep-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/2014\/01\/08\/lack-of-sleep-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"(Lack of) Sleep Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until the last year or so, <strong>I fought insomnia<\/strong> on a weekly, even nightly, basis. Stumbling into a regular sleep schedule for the last year has been nice. And now it seems to have ended. I&#8217;m back to a shifted, annoying, non-sleep schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried wine, coffee (yes, it puts me to sleep), various teas, and watching <i>Murder She Wrote<\/i> mini-marathons on the Hallmark Channel. Nothing seems to work.<\/p>\n<p>School starts in a week, and I need to be on a regular schedule. Although I do not teach until noon, my office hours start at 10 a.m. and I need to leave for campus an hour earlier. That means waking up by 7:30 a.m. each morning\u2026 and I am <b>not<\/b>\u00a0a morning person. Four hours of sleep, maybe less, won&#8217;t be enough.<\/p>\n<p>We did join a gym, so <strong>I am hoping that regular exercise helps<\/strong>. By this weekend, the weather should be nice and we&#8217;ll be back to walking three nights a week and three trips to the gym. I know that I won&#8217;t be able to maintain a perfect schedule with the exercise, though, because I also have a lot of evening projects and meetings this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Writing and coding at night has always been my most productive time. At least I&#8217;m getting a lot done. However, I need to balance my creative energies and my work responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until the last year or so, I fought insomnia on a weekly, even nightly, basis. Stumbling into a regular sleep schedule for the last year has been nice. And now it seems to have ended. I&#8217;m back to a shifted, annoying, non-sleep schedule. I&#8217;ve tried wine, coffee (yes, it puts&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/2014\/01\/08\/lack-of-sleep-schedule\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Lack of) Sleep Schedule<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":10,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[267,291,381,472,570,645,699,781],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-writing","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-insomnia","tag-mornings","tag-programming","tag-sleep","tag-teaching","tag-writing","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Podcast-HD-1920x1080-comp-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfivLC-dm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}