faustus | Entries tagged with early nights

I have to have a blood test tomorrow - at 9am. Since it is a fortnight since I have been out of bed and up by 9am this is entertaining. I'm assuming I'm not meant to have eaten or drunk for 12 hours before, but naturally no one said anything.

I also have to be up by 9am on Saturday for a northern odyssey, with the complication of a house guest Friday night rather than the anticpated Thursday night. The good news is at least I have Thursday to write two lectures. And to ponder whether to buy that Laurel & Hardy boxset with is about 1/4 RRP (£49 in Zavvis, £50 in HMV, released at £200 - not cheaper online).

Some of the lines in the Doctor Who Special (they'll go for the song and dance routine one of these days - and did we need the queen, especially given the opinions of her great-whatever-grandmother on him?) about Earth Christmas customs made me rather misread the headline:

Turkey attacks Kurdish bases in Iraq

especially as I'd just read the headline

Escaped zoo tiger kills man

and was already thinking of animal attacks. I note on the BBC News that the reporter was in New York, which seems rather sensible if a tiger is on the loose in San Francisco. Although perhaps a little over cautious. And did they really tell you to look away from the football scores which they then read out? Or were you meant to hit the mute button?

I need to creep up on an early night.

For some reason I seem to be going to bed at 2am, and it's not good as I need to be up at 7.30. Last night I had a cunning plan: catch up with some of the stuff I've videoed, watch an episode or so of QAF, hack out that article for Extrapolation, watch another episode, get to bed by one. No point in going to bed too early and then not sleeping.

(I've ruled out going to the pub as it's football, and once we lose it will be a depressive atmosphere. I mean, all we need is a draw to get into whatever championship it is, having apparently been handed a miracle by Israel beating Russia [and I find it hard to believe I know this] - so the most likely result is to clutch defeat from the jaws of a tie.)

So it's nearly one time I start the DVD for the winding down episode. And getting on for 2 when it's finished. And I ought to check if I've won chess or Scrabulous yet... Read a couple of chapters of Frenchman's Creek.

Yes, 2.40am bedtime.

The alarms go off at 7.15, 7.20 and 7.30. I think, let's listen to the radio. I doze and ponder why Melvyn Bragg is presenting Saturday Live. Realise it isn't Saturday but Thursday. I could do with being in by ten so that gives me 45 mins to be up dressed and walk twenty minutes to work.

Argh.

Maybe I shouldn't try going to bed early.

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