Comments on: Toss

By: BiB

BiB — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:56:57 +0000

Isar, spot on about the night-working. That’s when I peak, when I’m least disturbed, and when I can concentrate best. But I think I (just about) manage to be part of the rest of the world too. I almost constantly wonder whether I should get a ‘real job’, both to force me into a regular routine and to have the joy of colleagues… and then almost everyone moans about work, and their colleagues, and getting up at 6 and I bow down and kiss the floorboards and thank providence that I am my own boss. I manage to hate colleagues I only ever have e-mail contact with and those I meet once every five years for a drink, which I think is meant to be fun. And those – sorry, I am in the middle of a translation which I’m especially loathing – who send you 800 pages of legal bollocks for you to sign and fax back when the translation itself is 2 words and for 2p.

B., could you even sleep last night with the constant whirr of helicopters overhead? I enjoyed walking through the throng around Eberswalderstr. and was almost tempted to burn a car but everyone was behaving pretty well, so I curbed my anarchic urges. But, yes, walking is a very good thing.

By: IsarSteve

IsarSteve — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:07:15 +0000

Insomnia in my opinion doesn’t have anything thing to do with not being able “to sleep”. I think it often has more to do with not wanting to be part of the rest of the world.
Sleep during the day to avoid contact and work at night when you can’t be disturbed.
In the periods of my life when I’ve had problems, financial or boyfriend trouble. I often sank into the nightlife way of living and slept during the day (if I could)….. aaaahsoooo undtttt BiB… was haben SIE füüürrr Probleme?

By: bowleserised

bowleserised — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:40:04 +0000

No insomnia, but I am regretting getting white curtains.

I should use those early morning for bummeling instead.

By: BiB

BiB — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:25:45 +0000

Ed, on a random Pankow walk not long ago, the Russian and I decided to drop in on a place we once popped into for just a coffee with a friendess who lived above it. But this time we ate, and it was GOOD, and I instantly thought of you. On a sun-drenched (OK, not always) corner, and we sat outside, and the waitress was nice and not rude. Emposhened/internationalised German fare. Though perhaps not only. Bugger, there was a website, which I now can’t find. But Café Nord, Grunowstr. 21. Very close to Pankow U-Bahn. Let’s organise a lunch there on a sunny day.

Geoff, looking at a sleeping beauty next to you helps while away some of the insomnia-hit hours but eventually I slightly want to nudge him awake and say, “I can’t sleep,” which I don’t do. But I might as well as the tossing-and-turning is the same thing without words. And I’ve got a feeling you somniacs sleep like twigs, so are easily awoken. Whereas when we insomniacs do finally get to sleep, we could happily sleep through war, famine and pestilence… Clubbing for a week! That sounds like a very bad holiday.

By: Ed Ward

Ed Ward — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:13:03 +0000

Wow, I must’ve just missed you yesterday. I was bummeling around that part of town yesterday, and walked past the B&J’s three times.

I do that walking thing a lot in good weather when I need to wear myself out for a good night’s sleep, and you’re right, you wind up discovering all sorts of odd stuff. I found a restaurant serving gnu, for instance, the other day. Or I find myself finding shortcuts to here and there, putting the jigsaw puzzle of the city together. Insomnia’s for when I’ve got too much going on and it runs through my head, and a good walk will quiet that down for me.

As for daytime disco, some of my neighbors seem to have a very good mix going on right now, and I’m half thinking I should ascertain the source and find out what the records are.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:15:24 +0000

I am very lucky to never, ever suffer from insomnia. I generally fall into deep sleep within seconds of putting my head down on the pillow, for which I am eternally grateful. This has in the past been a source of much resentment from former boyfriends, two of whom have been insomniacs. Apparently nothing is more annoying when being unable to sleep than being laid next to someone rubbing it by falling asleep so easily.

Daytime dancing is well-established in the increasingly popular gentlemen’s clubs in Vauxhall these days – in fact it’s now possible to go clubbing continously 24 hours a day from Wednesday evening right through til Tuesday morning should you so wish.

By: BiB

BiB — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:13:27 +0000

Penguin, that’s a bit queer, isn’t it? I don’t know whether to disable it or not yet. You never know. Maybe it could lead to interesting places. Or is it a bit bossy? It’s something I thought about on one of my walks, in fact.

Yes, bad luck. Your body must have taken a bit of a pounding. I often wonder if I’m living in New York time. But it’s not late nights and late mornings that keep me tossing and turning at night, I don’t think.

By: ThePenguin

ThePenguin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:04:56 +0000

Ah, insomnia. All this international galavanting about has put me severely out of whack, my sleep regulating whatever seems to think I am in two timezones four hours each side of where I actually am, and refuses to contemplate sleep in the overlapping four hours.

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