Writing is the cure

As I noted in FB when posting a link to this blog, it looks like the whole sleeping problem has disappeared after I began to write about it. Well, better keep writing then. Not that my life has been regular enough in past weeks to draw any conclusions.

I was dead tired on Thursday and against all odds I got almost 8 hours of sleep. Hura for that. The Dreams are missing though, which is a bit sad and I don't feel rested enough. But I'm happy that I haven't been waking up in the middle of the night and falling asleep isn't the too-familiar 3 hour process with continuous fallbacks. Plus I haven't taken any melatonin in the past 7 days. That's a good thing. It could be because the nights getting darker in Helsinki.

I had decided early on, that this week Friday - Saturday would be my sleeping night. Saw two films, 20 Cigarettes and Backyard, the latter ending just after 22h. I'm glad that was the order, because the Italian film  about the Iraqian war was a bit too much for me after a long week at work. I also have a severe problem with the modern Italian films. I simply can't cope with the technique they're shot. The editing is also too pseudo-smart and old-fashioned. The tight close-ups didn't really help. The story was interesting though, and the director Aurelio Amadei was present as well. I was sort of hoping to see him later in Corona, but I was told he went to bed early. Backyard on the other hand was a perfect choice. A really well made video-shot music documentary made in Reykjavik. I even discovered a new favourite band, FM Belfast.

I was supposed to go home early, but no. There was someone sitting by the counter of Corona and first beer lead to a second one and then another and then GT's showed up and - Complementaries by your friendly neighborhood game of rock-paper-scissors. So, last night the amount of sleep is something between 6 and 6,5 hours. I can feel an afternoon nap lurking behind the corner.