sleep and stress

[tielan]

So hot today (well, it's Friday, so technically yesterday) - 37C - and while the world outside has cooled down thanks to a couple of hours of rain after sunset, the house has not.

It's 1:30am and I am really tired but also kind of wired, which makes it awful to sleep. I did no writing at all (well, maybe 100 words) and mostly read.

I did collect a whole heap of nectarines and peaches from the garden, mostly because the branches were so heavy with fruit they were trailing on the ground. But I didn't do anything with them (like make jam) because it was way too hot.

Several people this week have said they were going to call me and not one of them yet has. Which I always find very annoying because I expect people to keep their word.

I fell off a street kerb on Thursday and almost under a bus, thanks to a dicky ankle that occasionally chooses to give out in awkward places. I was on my way to get on the bus, which had stopped at the bus stop, only about 3m out from the kerb, and went sprawling. There was a moment when I thought the bus driver was just going to drive on, but he didn't, so I got to pick up my bags, my travel card (which I had to retrieve from underneath the bus) and hobble onto the bus to take stock. I bloodied up my right knee when I went down on it, and did something to my left heel; probably temporary since I could barely walk on it Thursday afternoon, but it was manageable for most of yesterday.

Right now, I guess the big stress is whether the US is going to be able to halt it's careening lurch out of even the semblance of being a democratic republic next week.

Comments

[amilyn]

That's my big stressor, too.

It's almost reassuring to me that you see it too.

But it's awful and terrifying.

[tielan]

I think we're seeing it more clearly outside the US than inside. Largely because we don't have the investment in 'America' that Americans do; we're just watching it all go down, knowing that if you guys don't halt what you're doing, then the rest of us are going to have that much more difficult time of it keeping our liberal democracies.

And the feed back from early voting seem good on the participation front, but whether they're good in the places that will matter? That's something else entirely.

[thothmes]

The U.S. elections are even scarier from where I sit. I'll head to the polls on Tuesday and vote a straight Blue ticket in a very Blue State so there will be little suspense as to the outcome in-state, but I'll be glued to the returns to see whether my fellow citizens in Red and Purple States will stand up to our disastrous President and his enablers in Congress and save us all.

[eggsbenedict]

Gahhh, I tried to comment on this earlier this week but Dreamwidth really wasn't playing nice on mobile - I hope you're feeling better!