Insomnia

[ljplicease]

Anyone got suggestions for fighting insomnia? I think this is more than just plain old jet-lag at this point.

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[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

i usually just go with it. i'm far more productive when i'm sleep-deprived. although last time that happened i ended up staying awake for nearly 100 hours, ridiculous. but i did generate a huge volume of surprisingly good (albeit strange) work, photo and painting.

[plicease]

That actually sounds really good... except I am totally uninterested in all of the things which I am working on right now. I need a new project. Are you working on anything interesting right now?

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

well, thats kind of the point of the forced insomnia. i was completely turned off by all things photo but i had a zillion projects due and zero ideas. until i started hallucinating from sleep deprivation. the your heart is surely not broken for i heard it beating just fine thing came from that, when i was all middle-of-the-night feeling sorry for myself because of divorce and bad luck in general. not too bad, either. i guess.

i've got a ton of creative things going on right now - music, writing, and this photo/painting series thing i've got ideas for. nothing strictly photo though. i worry that i'm getting burned out on that.

[plicease]

That was a really cool photo. It’s interesting to hear part of the process which lead up to it. Gives it more depth.

I definitely got a little burned out on photo last year. I got sucked back into computers... but I want to move away from what I am doing there and go in a more creative direction. It’s hard to concentrate on that and get the drudgery at work done.

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

drudgery is a killer and it creeps into everything. this past year has been blah for me too. working full time, school full time with projects that have nothing to do with my personal aesthetics/expression/whatever, dealing with my house falling apart, and all my personal drama, well. not much time left over to work on anything substantially satisfying or whatever. its leaving me feeling a little disillusioned and out of step. hopefully i'll be able to focus enough now to catch back up through the summer.

[plicease]

Yeah, the summer will be better, I expect. I can’t deal with the winters this far north. The trick will be to not let the drudgery take over my life.