Will’s Blog

I’m always feeling tired.

Especially as the day wears on.

I think one of the reasons behind it, is due to my lack of sleep.

These days I’m up by 6am, and off to work by 7am. Although this is a big change in wakeup time compared to uni days, i’m still sleeping quite late, as I did when I was still in uni.

I’m usually just getting to bed at midnight.

I think I should change my sleeping pattern.

They say the ideal sleep duration is 8 hours, so if i’m going to sleep 8 hours, I’ll need to goto bed at 10pm.

Why am I mentioning this? I think sleep deprivation is the cause of my tiredness, and has affected to a certain degree, my ability to take in a lot of information (eg: from books) at a single time.

Other factors include excessive, unnecessary time spent in front of the computer/tv. It is “fun”, but I should really be limiting myself, and start finding other activities to entertain myself.

My mum once asked me why when I want to take a break from coding, I go play games? I said to her that it destresses me. She said it’s not really resting as i’m still straining my eyes.

Guess she is right, and I do spend excessive amounts of time in front of the computer and/or the tv.

One other problem I bump into is the various Instant Messanger programs I have installed (I have a few installed, but only MSN Messenger running mostly). I have friends on there whom I chat with, but are in a different timezone. I often forget what time it is while I’m chatting. Even more so when I’m playing a game, any game really. I just keep playing, concentrating so much on the game that I often forget the time.

It is 10pm now, so I really should be getting some sleep.

I’ll see how this 8 hours of sleep thing goes in the next few days/weeks.

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