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So I quit taking sudafed last week, right, the advice nurse having reminded me that I have Flonase for the breathing-clearly thing, in the hope that not taking it would help me sleep through the night, because this insomnia thing is new to me and I don't like it one bit. It was an improvement, but not all the way back to normal, but I reasoned it would take a little time to get my groove back, you know, most things aren't like flipping a switch. And then I went away for a long weekend and there were two nights in my friend's guest room and two nights in a B&B, where it's reasonable to expect a person won't sleep as well as she does at home.

I have just realized that along with sleeping better the whole time I was on vacation, I had hardly any coffee and even less soda the whole time I was gone. And now I'm back home and still not taking sudafed, but I woke up last night at 2am almost just like I'd been doing - I didn't lie awake for long, but it was disruptive nonetheless, and I'm annoyed by it on top of being tired, plus there's the matter of the puffy eyes and bad skin all this is causing, and I'm annoyed by that too.

Sigh. So much as I did when I suspected my stomach issues were from lactose intolerance, I will now conduct an extremely scientific study in which I switch all caffeinated beverages to uncaffeinated ones in my normal daily life and routine and sleeping in my own bed and so on. If that solves the problem I'll be annoyed, but at least it will save me escalating the matter to the consulting-a-professional stage.

ups and downs

+ I had a good interim performance-review thing at work yesterday, leading one to some confidence that if we in fact get raises next year, I'll get a decent one.
+ The cricket that was being noisy in the ceiling tiles above my office shut up around 10:30 and I had quiet for the rest of the day, thank god. I don't know if the cricket crawled away to annoy someone else or found its way outside or gave up and died, but within the boundaries of my office, I don't care that much.
+ I finished a big thing yesterday; made good progress on a big thing today that I will be able to finish as requested tomorrow; and asked a couple of questions, apologizing for my own ignorance, which turned out to be because nobody had told me the things I didn't know in the first place (I was eventually forwarded copies of e-mails sent to a group between my being assigned to the project and my being added to the e-mail alias).
+ I caught a research glitch that might have made us look a little foolish, if I thought anybody would bother to read the report and pay that close attention to the details.
+ My partner and I got an A on our article presentation from class two weeks ago, the first week presentations were done, which is cool, because we knew what we were talking about but hadn't really prepared our presentation all that much, and had no handouts or powerpoint slides or anything. I did a lot of chalkboard drawing.
- My Prince Caspian DVD is wigging a little bit, and I don't know if it's the disc or the player.
- ON THE WAY HOME FROM CLASS TONIGHT I BOUGHT CAFFEINE-FREE DIET COKE. WAAAH.