I Sleep Therefore I Am

[davidgillon]

Sunday was not particularly productive, in the I don't think I was awake for longer than two hours at a time sense. And for most of the afternoon and evening, 10 minutes at a time. I seem to recall Saturday as similar, but not quite so bad. I'm not quite sure why, while I've not been sleeping great, there was no major sleep-fail preceding it. About the only positive was that sort of interrupted sleep seems to be good for me dreaming, or perhaps remembering that I was dreaming. OTOH  not so good for actually remembering what the dream was about. About all I remember is waking up from one and thinking 'wow, that was complex,' before falling asleep again and having no idea what it was complex about when I woke up.

And all of this sleep wasn't great for sleeping through the night. I ended up noodling about on the computer until about 7AM, finally got to sleep at 8AM, slept soundly through my alarm and woke up at 1PM. Hopefully I can do slightly better tonight.

I was finally awake enough this afternoon to trust myself booking my ticket up to my folks for Christmas. Bizarrely (1), the fare was £13.50 (c25%) cheaper than when I checked 10 days ago and that was already lower than some fares I've been charged. Bizarrely (2) I couldn't book my return as the online booking system is claiming there are no fixed fares (specific train) available for the first week of next year. I could book a flexible fare for three times the price, but understandably I'd prefer not to. And bizarrely (3) I got three texted confirmations for my passenger assistance request within 5 minutes. It's normally two, 'we got your request' and 'we've actually looked at it', but this time there was an additional 'we've really definitely actually looked at it' as well. Not sure what was going on there