Self-maintenance

[beetiger]

My body shut herself down for maintenance yesterday. I found myself falling asleep in the car on the way home from my date with lediva on Saturday night. This is a bit unusual, but not unheard of. But in the morning, I absolutely could not get myself awake. I dragged my way to a kids' birthday party, sleeping both ways in the car while Bard drove. I came home unable to keep myself awake enough to eat lunch, and collapsed in a flomp on the couch. Everyone else went to the street fair I'd planned for us to go to while I stayed collapsed.
I managed to drag with everyone to a casual dinner out, say goodbye to the blackcat, and then wait until I'd nursed the kaiju to bed before collapsing myslef at quarter to nine.

I feel a little better today, though not 100%. Still, that was very odd.

Comments

[hlw.livejournal.com]

Ugh... I SO get this. Every once in a while I'll come home on a Friday afternoon and just collapse into bed, not to be seen till sometime the next (late) morning.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Mine will occasionally do that, especially if I've been missing sleep --- not in large increments but small pieces (an hour shaved off here, fifteen minutes there). It seems to accumulate until my body just has to make up the deficeit.

[tikvah.livejournal.com]

My body crashed on me for pretty much the entire weekend. Today I was fine. Sometimes the body has to call a time-out, I guess...

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

My body does that kind of thing, too. When it does, I try to pay attention to it and blow off a day entirely. I did that just this last Saturday; apparently I was still worn out from WisCon the week before.

Sometimes I get warning that this kind of day is coming. Oddly enough, the warning usually takes the form of a desire to walk until I'm worn out, thereby giving me an excuse to be tired. If I don't walk, I still get tired.