Five years ago, for about two weeks, I woke up at 3:00am and could not go back to sleep.\u00a0 My mom told me I had terminal insomnia, and I was like, “Oh my god!\u00a0 It’s FATAL?!”\u00a0 And she said, no, terminal as in ‘end’, like the end of my sleep was disrupted.\u00a0 Whew.<\/p>\n
The good part was it went away.\u00a0 It came back any time I had a big stressor in my life—moving, changing jobs, family stuff—but it was always temporary.\u00a0 Now I’m going on four months of pretty consistent 3:00am wake-ups.\u00a0 I’m pretty cranky about it too.\u00a0 It’s hard to teach 30 nine-year-olds reading, writing, math, science, and social studies on five hours of sleep a night.<\/p>\n
The shitty part is that I’m still so tired<\/em> when I wake up.\u00a0 My eyes refuse to stay open, but when I close them, my mind burns a big, fluorescent sign that says OPEN FOR BUSINESS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five years ago, for about two weeks, I woke up at 3:00am and could not go back to sleep.\u00a0 My mom told me I had terminal insomnia, and I was like, “Oh my god!\u00a0 It’s FATAL?!”\u00a0 And she said, no, terminal as in ‘end’, like the end of my sleep was disrupted.\u00a0 Whew. The good … Continue reading Sorry, It’s Terminal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}