Crabbiness

I've been in a funk since returning to Spain.  I'm still really messed up on sleep, which makes things worse than they really are, but I'm hoping to kick this grossness to the curb sooner than later.  As I said, my sleep has been totally wacky since I returned.  I typically can't sleep until 2 or 3 at night and am waking up several times throughout the night.  Last night I managed to fall asleep by about 1:30, but was up at 3, 4:30, and 6.   Even letting myself sleep in until 8:30, I slept no more than 6 hours last night, which is pretty typical for the last week.  A series of nighttime naps really isn't doing it for me, so I typically need a nap in the afternoon ... which probably causes the erratic nighttime sleeping.  I'm going to try to go without a nap today, but the amount of yawning I'm doing at 10 am doesn't bode well for this plan.

I've also been feeling sort of gross physically, which is probably also a consequence and cause of the weird sleep stuff.  I've been super congested with allergy grossness since returning.  My stomach is always sort of crabby after a long flight, but it's been worse and more prolonged than normal.  I go from not being hungry at all to being starving in a split second.  I know that when I get back on a more normal sleep schedule, this will all go back to normal.

The worst has been my funk over work and other things.  Because I am so, so tired due to the weird sleeping patterns, I have the attention span of a goldfish.  This means it's taking me twice as a long to get anything done, which meant working over the weekend. While I was working, I was crabby that I was doing that instead of going out exploring the city.

On a positive note, the weather has been beautiful for the past few days, which results in much less crabbiness than if it were rainy.  Unfortunately, I'm not a lay around on the beach sort of person (especially when it's windy and 70 degrees - I'm the person wearing a sweater outside because I'm cold, not laying in a bikini), so I'm not taking advantage of the weather as much as I should.  I did go for a long walk yesterday, and two long walks Saturday, which helped with the crabbiness (but not so much with the productivity)

Anyhow, I'm hoping a new week means less crabbiness and a happier more productive time for me.  I may be going to the Netherlands for a workshop in September that would mean all of my September weekends are now booked with travel or visitors.  That said, I'm happy for all of that business, since I get things done more easily with a full calendar than an empty one.

Back to data and writing for me - and no more complaining about being back (at least for a while!).