Sleepy musings

Welcome to the musings of Nocturnal Sarah. I can't even blame jet lag because Japan's only an hour behind Melbourne time. Too many late nights and too much sleeping in and here I am, constantly tired.

It's funny because I'm actually getting plenty of sleep. I'm averaging eight to nine hours a day. It's just not quality sleep. I read somewhere that the human body doesn't sleep well during the day because we're naturally predisposed to sleeping at night, hence shift work tends to suck. The room we're sleeping in gets pretty light when the sun comes up, even in Winter, so I've been waking up around 8-9am anyway but falling back asleep because "bedtime" is currently around 3am.

The biggest hurdle for me turning my sleep cycles around is my love of night. It's always so quiet and peaceful at night. I find the surrounding darkness outside comforting. Even when I'm awake at sensible/normal hours, I still perk up around midnight when I should be going to sleep.

It's only 9:39pm right now as I'm writing but I'm ready for a nap.

Instead, I'm going to finish off the scarf that I'm making for my cousin, Nadia, as an exceptionally belated birthday present. Her birthday was at the end of May. I'm a terribly slack cousin I know. I'm actually pretty excited about knitting this scarf as it's my first design. It's made up of one basic stitch and a variation on this stitch (followed by variations on the variation) so it's actually a pretty simple design but I figure it's a starting point and we all have to start somewhere right?

One more musing before I finish for the night.

While I was overseas I carried a camera with arms reach almost all day everyday. If there was something in the world that captured my attention then I took a photo of it. Now that I'm back home, the camera's been packed away and I feel just a little naked without it. There are moments that pass me through the day that I would like to have captured but they're gone by the time I wish I had my camera with me. I suppose it's my love of documenting coming out in a less administrative form.