As I Xi It

Well, this is odd. Usually when I can’t sleep I have immense difficulty dozing off until around 5-6:00am. Now, I drift off quite easily but seem to awake at 5-6:00am and unable to drift off back to sleep. I’m not being woken up by any external factors, not even Cuzco is making any noise.

I have a new Tumblr account primarily for the curation of things I’ve found interesting on the Web. It’s called ‘The Repository of Nonsense‘. From now on, this blog will focus on my own original content.

Yes, I could’ve used Pintrest, but it’s become too mainstream.

http://therepositoryofnonsense.tumblr.com/

I can’t sleep. For some reason, I have Cat Steven’s Wild World playing on a loop in my head.

Another night of sleeplessness. I don’t know why though, I woke up at a reasonable time having had four hours of sleep last night and did some exercise in the early evening. For some reason, my mind keeps replaying recent conversations I’ve had, over and over, it’s as if it were on a mental loop. None of the conversations are particularly troubling so I don’t know why it’s happening. Maybe I’m just going insane, next I’ll be crouched in a corner, rocking back and forth, reciting those same conversations over and over again. Over and over again.

Sunny days and blue skies makes everything better. I’d be out in the English countryside again if it weren’t for my shoulder. I have no idea what or how I’ve injured my rotator cuff. Pain killers do not seem to be working. For someone who’s healthy 99% of the time, the 1% seems to have all descended on me in one fell swoop in recent weeks.

I was sleepy at around 11:30pm and so retired to bed a little before midnight with my iPad in tow. Thought I’d do a little bedtime reading as one does. Tried to sleep at about 1:00am but no avail, been trying to sleep intermittently since and now I don’t even feel tired at all. My mistake, as always, was bathing in the glow of my iDevice during sleepy time.

It’s been a while since I’ve had a bout of insomnia so I guess it was due.

Edit: Well, well, how apt that I should come across this article.

All that malarkey about leap years and changing seasons may well become redundant. Our seasons don’t really match up anyway what with global climate change and all.

Months before my trip to Sweden in 2010, I brought a book called True North by Gavin Francis about his travels in and around arctic Europe. I had been meaning to read it prior to my departure, but it just never happened and so I forgot about it until I booked a trip to Iceland later that year in June. Again, I thought I should definitely read it before I go. There was little point in bringing the book as I generally prefer to stare off into the blue yonder while plugged into my iPod when waiting, flying, whatever.

February 2011 rolled around and Gauss and I are booked to cross the arctic circle again, this time to Norway. Yet again, I gave myself the task of reading it before I went. I did consider taking the book with me but it would seem far too cheesy and besides, I was already weighed down with tins of beans and Sainsbury’s instant mashed potatoes. Although the pages would’ve been a source of fibre, I can’t say that it’d provide much in the way of sustenance so it was left behind.

So, here we are in February 2012, over two years since I brought the book and I’m due to head off on my third aurora hunt. I’m going back to Iceland and have finally started reading True North. Hurrah! However, I doubt I’ll manage to finish it before I leave but at the very least I ought to complete the chapter on Iceland.

What was initially a fun activity has slowly drifted to becoming a chore as I try to fit it around all the other things I’m up to. When I first brought it, I didn’t expect to frequent these northern regions as much as I have. I still have The Faroes, Greenland and Svalbard to conquer. At this rate, I’ll probably cross those off before I finish the book!

Hmn… It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. There are quite a few things to add.

Tetris for the iPad was 69p today (I know, I’m a big spender) so I figured, ‘Why not?’

I still have my bulky, old Nintendo Gameboy and it still works! The only game I really ever played on it was Tetris. Unfortunately, the iOS Tetris doesn’t have the classic theme tune!! It’d be cool if had a Gameboy classic mode emulating the original.

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