lisa-knits's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Insomnia Insomnia sucks. I couldn’t sleep at all last night. I think it was the combination of Novocain and epinephrine they use at the dentist’s office. Either that, or it was looming work deadlines. Or it might have been the 2-hour nap I had in the evening. Or it could have been the desire to start a new knitting project, even though I already have nine others in progress. Let me go back to the beginning. I did manage to finish a second finger on B’s glove yesterday at lunchtime, which is a plus. Then I left the office early to go to my dentist appointment. I don’t really mind the dentist anymore, since several of the ladies who work there are also knitters, and we have a good conversation while I’m in the waiting room. Also, I’d been wearing my Pacific Northwest Shawl yesterday, and got a pile of compliments on it. (Nice to have the ego stroked, isn’t it?) However, my trips to the dentist always involve enough Novocain to make me drool, so there is a downside to my visits. After I got home, I worked a bit more on B’s glove, but put it down in answer to the call of the latest Wheel of Time book. That didn’t last long either, because I promptly fell asleep. When I woke up, most of the day had already gone by, and the knitting I’d wanted to do, and the work I’d brought home with me sat untouched. So, when 10:00 rolled around, I decided to just give up and go to bed for the night. But I couldn’t sleep. I tossed and turned for about ½ an hour, and then finally gave up trying. I grabbed the skein of Helen’s Lace (in the "Jeans" colorway) I’d had waiting, and the Martha Waterman Traditional Knitted Lace Shawls book and cast on for the “Fan Stitch Half-Circle Shawl”. I started with size 6 needles, but didn’t like the drape, so I started over with size 8’s. I finished the first 36 rows, but still couldn’t sleep. I'm not sure how I like the way the color repeats are stacking up, but I think I'll work on it a bit more before I make a final decision. The pattern is easy enough to rip out and restart with a different yarn if I decide I hate it. Still feeling the impending work deadlines, I decided to actually go over the papers I’d brought home. There I was at midnight, going over budget submissions and program goals. If that couldn’t cure my insomnia, then nothing would! Sure enough, after about twenty minutes staring at the same sheet of numbers, I finally felt tired enough to go to sleep. 9:37 a.m. - Thursday, Jan. 09, 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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