Afternoon! Good to have you back in the land of the living.
Try scattering pointed objects all over you bedroom floor. These should wake you up if you sleepwalk.
And move the computer AWAY from the bed. Sleepblogging is probably worse than drunk blogging.
Oh yeah. And AVOID Scaryduck today.
It is truly manky.
Well, don't say I didn't warn you.
Probably a good idea that you discarded the webcam idea, you'd never know what people were tuning in for.
Get more sleep and remember that today is the day that you are legally required to get completely and utterly shit-faced in the name of another country's patron saint. Spleep, then booze, not spleep in booze!
That's handy! I've just woken up myself. Found myself slumped over my keyboard (what with all the exciting things I have to do today).
Bet Fulham's never been the same.
Hey, you could turn this to your advantage and have a day AND a night job. You could work at Tesco's. Nobody would guess you were asleep.
Oh yeah, if you go round the Duck's today, take some Dettol and a wire brush with you!
GW: Good ideas there! Only downside about the pointy bits on the floor, is that Pudsey might get hurt :-/ So maybe not that one.
Freakish: I think I shall avoid today's 'festivities'. I recall a bad incident that involved green beer that I never want to get close to repeating.
TC: Bloody good idea! I could try applying for a job at a solicitors too. They never need to use their brains. or so it seems.
And too late btw.
I have read it.
I now need to wash. Many times.
Gah...
Ah! But the second part of my master plan is to get some very cute booties for Pudsey...
GW: Manolo Blahniks for dogs?
I was thinking more like Ugg or Mukluk boots... high heels wouldn't be very good for a little doggy.
GW: Good point, although she would look gorgeous in the MB's. Ugg boots it is then. 
I fell asleep mid-newspaper on the Tube this morning. Very embarrassing. Absolutely nothing to do with the late night and the drinking, no sirree.
A guy I once shared a house with was a sleepwalker. His worst experience was waking up in a hotel lobby wearing a wristwatch. _Just_ a wristwatch. I once did my maths homework in my sleep, apparently.
Martin: At least you weren't stark naked when you fell asleep on the train
Or were you...?
Bout the sleepwalking, I am fairly sure you could get someone to observe for it, probably be surprised at the number of volunteers.
Misty: As my mother would say "There'd be more laughers than criers".
I haven't had the somnambulism, but I have had both insomnia (didn't fall asleep until 6:30AM, woke up at 12:30PM - should have been at work at 9AM!) and embarassing daytime spleepiness - fell asleep halfway through my main course at 7:30PM at the company Christmas dinner. A picture of me face down, drooling into my entree found its way onto hotornot.com ...
ben: I don't think I'll advetise for an 'observer' just yet 
Martin: I'm laughing at just the thought of it 
Simon Jester: Well come on. Where's the photo then?
*goes to hotornot.com to find piccy of drooling person*
I too have been told to avoid Fulham. And I was born there.
I spent eight years travelling the length and breadth of this fair country in the name of commerce and stayed in countless hundreds of hotel rooms - pre-Travellodge hotels rooms where not every bed was the same.
Hence now I can sleep anywhere and everywhere on anything, and yes, I have twice slept through full fire alarm drills in hotels, on both occasions the manager came to the breakfast table the next morning and apologised for disturbing my nights sleep and making me stand out in the car park for half an hour while the fire brigade did a head count.
"What fire alarm" I replied
The managers went pale and backed away from the table on both occasions.
Misty, the buggers never told me which name they'd entered it under - I only saw them looking at it on someone else's screen. Sorry*.
(* - not really; even by my standards, I looked repulsive.)
I too have problewith sleep or the lack of it. On one occasion as a child I was found at the tp of ther stairs, but I thinking the funniest incident was on a sailing ship in the middle of the English channel, not the best place. I was part of the OYC (Ocean Youth Club) & we were on the return leg of our trip to Brittany. Everyone was knackerd what with doing the different watches etc. The Mate alowed us all one hour sleep on our watch. I curled up happily on the coiled ropes & wondered whether I'd actually be able to drop off. The next thing I know is that I'm steering the yacht! Yep, asleep, steering a 72 foot ketch on the English Channel!! Ellne MacArthur eat your heart out! lol No disrepsect to her btw I think she's fantastic!
A serious note: ever get checked out for sleep apnea? The fatigue is a common symptom, and if you are literally waking up every minute or so it may seem like insomnia. Everyone deserves good, drug-free sleep. Follow it up, dear.
Signed,
A concerned reader
ps - got nothing about drug-induced sleep, as long as it's recreational drugs we're talking about.
I've suffered from insomnia my whole life and don't remember a night when I slept for more than four hours. My average is about three. And when I tell people that they always say "don't you get tired?" Bloody stupid question. Tired is a permenant state of being, as far as I am concerned. Tired is normality, I have no idea what "not tired" feels like.
A doctor once prescribed me some sleeping pills, and sleepwalking turned out to be a side-effect of them. On various occasions the ex-missus found me brushing the driveway and trying to insert a crisp packet into the video player. One night I put on a tin of soup and went back to bed. We found the pan burned dry the next morning and realised we were lucky not to have had a fire. I stopped taking the pills and have never touched them again.
Insomnia bites. I've had it a time or three and colleagues simply don't understand. As for sleepwalking, well, the burglar alarm would stop that.
Over on this side of the pond, the New York Times recently ran two reports about sleep eating and, in some cases, sleep driving (!) for people taking a popular sleep aid (Ambien). Drug induced sleep: not for the faint of heart, I tell you what.
Evening! You still up? Have a Guinness... go back to spleep. Sorted.
A nice drink of milk(stout).
6 hours of the recorded highlights of the house of lords.
Cushioned flooring everywhere in case you drop off.
That should induce sleep....zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Nicola: And you want me to take you sailing sometime...?
Nanuk: Thanks for the concern, pet, but it isn't sleep apneoa. it's just a) one of those things I was born with which is exacerbated by stress. Drugs do help, but I can't afford them and they don't like me either... *sigh*
Alan: All sympathies and hugs darling. And yes, 'don't you get tired?' has made me want to bite people before now. Inserting crips packets into video recorders was - I thought - normal behaviour though..... No...?
Quentin: I said before, my 'burgular alarm' is probably hoping I feed her
Drysil: Thanks for the tip, but you're not supposed to drink alcohol whilst taking Ambien. Where's the fun in that?
GW: No. I'm aspleep now, honest... *hic*
Decko: I don't have a recording of the house of lords. Would 'Water World' suffice instead?
Am actually starting to feel a little spleepy now, so am going to switch 'puter off (might take fuse out of plug to prevent possible sleep-blogging too) and snuggle up under duvet with a warm puppykins on top of me.
Nighty-night, and may flights of angels, sing thee to thy rest.
X
I used to have insomnia pretty badly, though it has become better in recent years. I still don't spleep very well, though. I have been told I sleepwalk, and scare the heck out of my roommate, becuase I don't make any noise...I also sleep work, so I am told, by typing on my pillow and telling people they need to finish filling out the purchase order, etc. (I was a purchaser)...but I have never witnessed it, so I don't know if I should belive it, lol.
Get some rest, girl...you deserve it.
Oh, come on, it's only 2am here in the UK, is everyone asleep already?
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