It's 4 in the Morning

And I'm wide awake, but in the peaceful pre-dawn way of being wide awake. Today I had a mixed signals missed meeting with my RA again, but we're back on for Thursday. I got my phone straightened out and can be reached by cell again. I watched some TV, read some, and went to bed.

Then I woke up a few hours later, and my doctor tells me not to fight not feeling sleepy, but to do boring and or soothing tasks until I'm ready for bed again. I have the day to myself tomorrow, to finish paying my landlady, catch up on some Kyrgyz, and work on IRB stuff. And possibly arrange a visit to Osh for early next week or the week after.

So what do I do in the midnight hours when I should be asleep? I watch some TV. I email my adviser, which is maybe not such a good idea when I'm only half awake. She is down on my panicked idea to come back in the summer for 6-8 weeks to make sure I've done everything I can with data collection, so this is it. What I've got is what my dissertation will be. I also do lots of weird financial stuff, like make spreadsheets charting my budget and expenses and so on. Getting paid by the month is way easier than getting paid by the quarter, but this month is still tight with two months' rent to pay, plus extra big credit card bills (and cards nearing their limits lowered at the beginning of the financial crisis), due to some big ticket items like health insurance and a ticket home.

Maybe finances is not so much what my doctor wants me obsessing about when I can't sleep. I'll finish my ep of Community, finish my chocolate milk, and try to get back into bed. Since the day is my own, I figure it doesn't make much difference if I change my alarm from 8 until 9, but we'll see. And by the way, it's so nice to have an alarm clock again--that's what I missed most from my cell phone. I was kind of enjoying the inaccessible hermit aspects of being phoneless.