Things that make you go [yawn]
Mar. 31st, 2008 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penfield"A man grows most tired while standing still."
- Chinese proverb
To me, there is nothing better than falling asleep accidentally, assuming it is socially acceptable within the given context. (For example: falling asleep while watching a baseball game: good; falling asleep during your own DUI hearing: bad.)
But the inverse is just as annoying: knowing you want to sleep, but being unable to do so.
For example: last night I was lying in bed, right at my usual bed time, after an exhausting day of traipsing up and down and around the city. Furthermore, I knew that I had to get up particularly early this morning and I was eager to get my 40 winks in.
But there I was, frustratingly conscious. And then, the final insult: As I lay with my head on my pillow, draped in blankets, I yawned. One of those epic, musculo-skeletal yawns that seems designed to convey a message of exhaustion. And I thought to myself, "God dammit. I'm in bed. What else do I have to do?"
- Chinese proverb
To me, there is nothing better than falling asleep accidentally, assuming it is socially acceptable within the given context. (For example: falling asleep while watching a baseball game: good; falling asleep during your own DUI hearing: bad.)
But the inverse is just as annoying: knowing you want to sleep, but being unable to do so.
For example: last night I was lying in bed, right at my usual bed time, after an exhausting day of traipsing up and down and around the city. Furthermore, I knew that I had to get up particularly early this morning and I was eager to get my 40 winks in.
But there I was, frustratingly conscious. And then, the final insult: As I lay with my head on my pillow, draped in blankets, I yawned. One of those epic, musculo-skeletal yawns that seems designed to convey a message of exhaustion. And I thought to myself, "God dammit. I'm in bed. What else do I have to do?"
