martinemonster | Ups, help please?

First off, I couldn't sleep last night. I've jokingly stated that insomnia should be my thing, but I never thought that it was possible to lie awake for 3 hours straight just trying to sleep three hours? you might wonder, but why is she complaining because she had to wait three hours to sleep? that should still leave about five hours right? Wrong. I tried staying awake till I was tired, and I got tired at 4 in the morning! Then, I couldn't sleep.... Turns out, it's possible. So now I'm at work without sleeping last night. And the problem is, the other secretary is home sick, meaning that I have to manage the work of two full time employees, in half a day ~~since I said I couldn't stay the whole day~~ and she's likely to be sick a week.

In short, my problem is that I know I'm bad at relaxing, I'm bad at leaving things before they're finished (which is why, in my one week on full time here I got four hours overtime), and I suck at feeling good with myself if I don't feel I'm doing my best at a job. And so, how do I make sure I work enough to make myself feel like I'm contributing and holding up the fort, while making sure I actually get well this time? I cannot be sick anymore, I just can't. I'll go into a major depression! Please advise me.

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I never get to sleep before having laid in bed at least an hour, and if I just did, saw are read something exciting, two or three is necesarry. I have no good tricks to solve this, but I have some bad ones:

1: My stephbrothers. Fall on sleep on sofa watching tv. Requires sleep deprivation and a big and comfy sofa. Will be woke up by flatmates if you snore.

2: Mine: Start spinning stories in your head. This will take at least an hour, but with some practise you'll lose the thread faster and faster, be fed up, and just sleep.

3: My grandmothers: Take immense amounts of painkillers.

4: The alcoholics (my favorite, but I'm to much of a pussy to do it regularly) take one, two, or even three glasses of port before going to bed.

5. The zombies: Just make sure you get up early, and the sleep deprivation should take care of you the next night. Just make sure you don't drink much cofee to stay awake, and don't fall asleep when you get home from work.

6. The cliche: Borrow you're flatmates "Totman - A history of Japan" or some other badly written book on a preferably interesting theme. Read it until you fall asleep. (It is important that the theme could have been interesting, else you'll just give up and find something else to read. Totman is perfect, bacause the theme is interesting, but he skips all the juicy parts and concentrate on climate, agricultural potential and such, and completely skips the political bits).

All of these have serious flaws though, especcially when you need lots of sleep to get well.

I already do no 2, and 4, I don't have strong painkillers, or else no 3 would be a really real alternative, I've tried and tested no 1, but it doesn't work on me, it just leads me directly to no 5, which is always a bust because I end up falling asleep after work and effectively ruining my sleep pattern even more.

No 6 though, it's worth a try...but I fell asleep at an acceptable time yesterday,so I'm okay today at least. Does martin have this book of which you speak?

Yup, I believe he does. At least I think he took that course last year.

If not you can borrow mine.

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