Tuesday, April 28, 2015

As Baltimore burns: Sleep is important, but not quite a "social justice" issue.

Monday is my day off. When I say "day," I mean night. I work 9pm-2am cleaning a carwash every day except Monday and Tuesday. I get home around 2:30am on nights I work, and generally, I go to bed around 4am. During the school week, I get up at 7:30am when my wife leaves for work to ensure my older kids get ready for school and on the bus by 8:25am. Most mornings, my youngest is dumped on me as my wife is leaving, if I haven't already gotten her before going to/down for bed.
With that said, I was having a typical Monday aside from having an afternoon perio appointment to see why I have loose teeth. My youngest usually naps in the afternoon, so I try to get a catnap in during that time. My nap wasn't available so I pushed through until after dinner when I said I'd rest my eyes around 7:10pm before my show started.
I never got up to watch Gotham. My rest went beyond nap, and I got up around 2am. I wish I had said goodnight to the family. I didn't have my wrist braces on. I didn't brush my teeth.
Regardless, I'm usually hungry at 2am. It's when I usually eat a meal that is like lunch, but I'll take anything that is filling. I like to let my food settle before I go to sleep. At the moment, I can't do much fun stuff like Twitter due to SPOILERS of my show, hence this blog post I started a while ago but never felt much like filing.

Last month, I was not sure what social justice was anymore after having read an article saying sleep is for the privileged. I used to have insomnia, but I don't have such problem seeing I can sleep just about anytime I get a chance. Chances aren't always available since I do like to do things when I'm in the mood to be be active. Regardless, I would sleep more if I didn't have 3 kids. I get eight hours of sleep on various days of the month, but for the most part my allotment comes via naps. I nap most days of the week. Naps are underrated. There are 24 hours in a day, I usually get about four hours of sleep a day if I don't nap. I shall keep track for the following month. It will be slightly hard given I nap irregularly and blog less due to my time restraints.

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