Day 2 - 2 pm

Had a defining moment a little while ago. Went out this morning to sort out getting an MOT on my car, should pass OK as it spent most of last year in bit, so has actually done less than a thousand miles since it’s last one. SO I walked down to the garage to arrange stuff and he was going to call be back when I could run the car down. Lasted okish till 11, then set the alarm and settled down for a nap. Woke up and was really shot and actually decided to have another 20 minutes, reset the alarm and lay back down. But before I could close my eyes, the phone rang, so had to get in the car and go to the garage. Thinking about it though, I don’t really think how many 20 minute naps I have in the early stages as they are really doing me no good at all. The point is that you torture yourself to the point where the body get’s that desperate, that it goes into REM during the 20 minute naps. I’m nowhere near that yet, so the naps are not replenishing me at all. I’m really only having them to give the body chance to start using them, when it needs to. Anyway, I’m still on target, so far. I think the next 24 hours will make or break me, not sure I can survive the lack of sleep any longer than that. If I don’t start to feel an improvement tomorrow, I’ll have to switch to the everyman schedule and just try weaning myself down gradually. Hopefully that won’t happen.
So, now onto an important subject. What the heck is wrong with night time TV? There’s absolutely nothing on at all, it’s just all rubbish. SO much so in fact, I decided I could do better and started writing a sitcom. Naturally being so shattered I didn’t get very far and only lasted 30 minutes, but the idea is in place now and when I start to feel alive, I’ll continue with it. I’ll shove the pilot episode up ont tinterweb when it’s done. You never know, some TV company may spot it and we’ll have something mildly entertaining to watch. Got to be better than celebrity Big Brother. Trust me on this, as desperate as I was in the middle of the night, I just couldn’t watch it! I’m setting it in a small Spanish holiday resort. It’s the eclectic mix of cocaine fuelled timesharers, spliffed up kamikaze surfer doods and the reality escapers chasing their respective dreams. Naturally the problem with it being a small resort, is that everbody knows everybody’s business. Most people just think they are on a permanent holiday, so are generally boozed up and infidelity is rife, usually inappropriately so. Ok, so I normally have a pretty off the wall mind and now it’s suffering from sleep deprivation, so it’s pretty much doing its own thing!
An interesting side effect is how it’s affecting the SO (Significant Other). She’s usually the last one to go to bed. It’s a student thing, we all did it and she’s no exception. She tends to do her studying at night, so she’s always up later than me. Clearly, this was not the case last night and she wandered of to bed at half 3, just after my nap. The problem she had was that she is used to being the last one up and lying there knowing that I was awake in the next room, made it difficult for her to sleep. Hey ho, she’ll get used to it, I’m sure...