Exhaustion and New Activity

I have been really tired lately. I sleep a lot. I picked up this habit over break, where I decided to sleep as much as my body would let me, with no alarm. I went to sleep when I wanted (sometimes very late, sometimes earlier) and slept as much as possible.
The reason I decided to do this was I decided that if I was sleeping so much, my body probably needed it. My sleep isn’t as restful as it should be, I think, so why not grab a few extra hours? I think I slept something between 9 and 11 hours each night.
Now what I have been doing is, back at school, I wake up in the morning, and then get exhausted by class, go to sleep from 5-8 and then go to sleep for the night at about 2am, waking up at 9:30.
I’d like to not sleep as much, I wake up like a monster, plus I do have things to do.
Part of the trouble may be that my sleep isn’t restful, as it should be. I usually collapse in a heap of exhaustion at 5pm, but because I plan to go to sleep at about 2am, I palm before going to sleep. I usually do the chart just before going to bed, and in the morning.
However, I still wake up with an aching neck, and my eyes feel really dry and sore.
I try to drink water (though not a thirst-quencher, anything else to drink is simply too sugary). I have also been trying to eat.
I wake up early enough to have breakfast, but not a great breakfast. That is, I don’t have the resources and time needed to have a good breakfast–say bacon and eggs, or at least eggs. The best I can do is rice crispy cereal (off-brand actually slightly of higher quality than the other). That is the only kind of cereal I can eat because I can’t eat any other type of grain or flour, which other cereals have.
I’m trying to eat a bit more, hoping for the food to give me more energy. Of course my breakfast isn’t great, and lunch happens after classes (or not, depending on whether I just fall asleep). Dinner tonight was good–steak and some broccoli and corn.

I think I need new activities again. I haven’t been running due to my weird schedule of sleep, but I have been doing yoga, as I ‘ve been taking a class. I keep meaning to go swimming, but again, I’m always asleep or in class when the pool is open.
It’s sort of strange how I can’t just keep repeating the same activity and keep getting a similar result. One day, yoga and reading a book is just the combination I need of relaxing for my neck to pop, and then some days it seems not to work at all.
I went weightlifting, which is a good activity for me usually, but it just wasn’t working. I think the next thing to try is swimming.
As always, these new things last for a week, maybe a month, before I have to switch it up again. Of course, I will have to keep up with the yoga for the next 2-3 months while I am enrolled in the class.

Lastly, I did find some astigmatism. I had to look at much finer and more lines than before. It’s a good improvement.
My chart work is of late being done close, at about 2 to 3 feet. I am getting flashes, and can often read 2/10, and reasonably often read 2/7. Last time I went to the eye doctor my close vision was 20/80, so this is an improvement over that.

Time to sleep! I think…

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