Slashdot Mirror
Insomniacs, the Phantoms of the Internet
theodp writes "Ever since she was a toddler, freelance writer Lily Burana has been a Stay Up Late kind of girl. When her kindergarten teacher asked students 'What time do you go to bed?,' young Lily felt compelled to lie rather than rat out her own mother by saying, 'Oh, between midnight and 1 a.m.' She still suffers from insomnia, but has discovered that Facebook is the Promised Land for the awake and alone. She finds comfort in the company of others who, like her, live counter to the conventional rhythm of a sunny-day world."
Sleeping drugs won't fix it, they will help short term but you will build up resistance to the point your natural cycle again takes precedence.
I've had this all my life (a 3am-11am sleep window) and it can be altered by staying up an hour or two later a day until you hit where you want to be and then sticking to it, but those weeks of work are undone if you stay up late just once, and your body reverts to its natural cycle of 3am sleep (or whatever yours is).
It's really just better to work your life around it than force yourself into unnatural (for you) sleep patterns.
I find smoking weed helps if I need to get to sleep & wake early, otherwise staying awake all night is better than trying to sleep early if I absolutely must be alert and active before noon.
The issue is not so much the amount of rain that falls. It's the number of days with rain or with lotsa clouds. I've lived in the Provence, which is reputedly dry, and in Brittany (the small one, west of France). Both get about as much rain, but
- the Provence gets it over a few days, pretty much always at the same time (spring, autumn, and a few thunderstrom is summer), with a clear build-up of clouds where you can see it's gonna rain tomorrow, gets hammered by a great big rain, and then goes for weeks without rain.
- Brittany gets its rain any day, any season. Any day can start off sunny with no clouds, and rain by midday. It often will be a pitiful drizzle, that counts for little water, except is f***ing wet and takes the fun out of doing anything outdoors.
Yearly statistics (http://www.worldweather.org/010/c00032.htm)
Number of rain days in London: 139, total rain = 600 mm, number of pure sunny days = N/A
Number of rain days in Marseilles: 55, total rain = 554mm, number of pure sunny days = N/A
So yeah, Marseilles gets as much rain as London. No, it is not, and does not feel, any way near as rainy.
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.