Four a.m. and all’s well
Man it smells good outside. Not often in Colorado can you step outdoors at four in the morning after an all-day rain yesterday and smell it. Look up and it’s still overcast. Cool, autumny feeling, puddles. No people around being stinky. Pretty darn sweet. And silent as a snoozing turtle.
Insomnia has never been one of my problems. I’m more of a somniac, the kind of guy who gets weird looks from the pharmacist when he goes in and asks for a bottle of waking pills. You got anything that can help me wake? A master of sleep, that’s me. Unconsciousness has always been my favorite state of mind, since you don’t have to deal with gravity when you’re unconscious. Gravity, that bane of lazy people.
Plus when you’re unconscious you get to dream, and dreams are the best because they end. No matter how bad they are, and mine are usually great, they end. As far as I can tell so far, life never ends. People say it does, but they say a lot of things. Life strikes me as a series of getting up to go to work that never ends. Whew, being unconscious is mo betta.
Of course, what am I whining about? I’m a writer. I don’t have to get up to go to work anymore, all I do is sit around and blab with my fingers, any time of the day or night. My only concern right now is whether I’ll be perky enough to enjoy the Broncos game later on the telly. Oh woe is me.
Anyway, not sure what this blog was about except maybe being awake. Sorry to have to discuss such a disturbing subject.
Your partially wakened,
LWIII
I can smell your outside – lucky you. I don’t know where in CO you are but I am sure it’s green, and wet green smells oh so good. If it were a perume I would wear it.
You sound like a cat with your sleeping…how cozy. I also love to dream but dislike sleep, so I practice it while I am awake.
We’re on the flatlands here, ten miles to the east of the foothills, so it’s not foresty, but there is a lawn outside and trees, so it does smell wet and green. It’s a semi-arid climate, so those daylong rains are precious to us rain-lovers here.
Good work on sleeping while you’re awake, Cheryl. Very cool. I might try that one, if I can pull it off.
Thanks!
I actually do use waking pills. It’s called Provigil. It’s like the opposite of Ambien…it’s makes you less drowsy.
Thanks for the info lapetus, but I was being metaphorical again. Don’t think I need waking pills, just need to awaken. Appreciate the comment though. Have a good one!
LWIII