sleep
so i haven't been sleeping so good lately. in fact, i've been sleeping like a goddam native, waking at 5:45 for class at 6:30 and not getting to real sleep again until 12, maybe 1 in the morning. Don't know how it is i get so wound up that i can't head down until after 3 hours of lying awake in a fantasy world of revised history and drama. It's pretty trippy and the reason I'm writing it here is I'm actually kind of proud of it - that I can sleep 4 or 5 hours a night and still function pretty well (well enough to be cogent and lucid here, for example). Also on the up side I'm pretty buzzy for those first 2 hours post-waking, but once 9am rolls around thhe bags under my eyes become more obvious and my students catch me in frequent covert yawns, and sympathise. You'd think that afternoon naps would be the answer, given that I have something like a 7-hour lunchbreak, but that just makes the whole thing worse, even if I do manage to grab 2 sweaty hours. Waking up is the one of the shittiest things to do in the day besides taking a shit and I prefer to do neither twice if I can avoid it.
More thoughts on the World Cup:
I've been sitting here for (too many) hours now, and there have been many painted dudes and all wearing some form of flag or t-shirt to support the team. I was going to say something like:
"It's interesting the things that people will do in their search for meaning, such as yel land shout about a football match that will make no tangible difference to their lives."
(Of course, they will be devestated if they lose, the way I was appalled when, as a young boy, New Zealand lost a cricket match that I spent all afternoon watching. What a fucking waste of time that was.)
Buuuuut, these people don't really get a lot of free time, and they usually spend it drinking or in a singing room. Not much different from my life really, except they don't have any weed.
And i thought, maybe they jsut do it because it's there to be done. If the city and the country didn't put on this big extravaganza entertainment, people wouldn't notice it wasn't there, just like most of them don't notice the absence of 8 hour workdays or the personal freedom to indulge in recreational drugs. It's something to do!
Damn, Daegu is a boring town. Thank fuck for the world cup. Tonight's gonna be a blast.
More thoughts on the World Cup:
I've been sitting here for (too many) hours now, and there have been many painted dudes and all wearing some form of flag or t-shirt to support the team. I was going to say something like:
"It's interesting the things that people will do in their search for meaning, such as yel land shout about a football match that will make no tangible difference to their lives."
(Of course, they will be devestated if they lose, the way I was appalled when, as a young boy, New Zealand lost a cricket match that I spent all afternoon watching. What a fucking waste of time that was.)
Buuuuut, these people don't really get a lot of free time, and they usually spend it drinking or in a singing room. Not much different from my life really, except they don't have any weed.
And i thought, maybe they jsut do it because it's there to be done. If the city and the country didn't put on this big extravaganza entertainment, people wouldn't notice it wasn't there, just like most of them don't notice the absence of 8 hour workdays or the personal freedom to indulge in recreational drugs. It's something to do!
Damn, Daegu is a boring town. Thank fuck for the world cup. Tonight's gonna be a blast.
posted by wu-wei at 9:57 pm
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