{"id":197,"date":"2007-11-09T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/a-reading-problem\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T14:32:12","slug":"a-reading-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/a-reading-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reading Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to start daily blogging of insurmountable problems.  But it turned out to be impossible.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n(see? I have a sense of humour!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The latest struggle: staying awake.  I&#8217;ve always had trouble staying awake.  As a babysitter I had to work hard to stay awake until the kids were asleep.  Usually the parents woke me up when they got home.  At my own pyjama party I was the first one asleep.  Dating?  \/sigh\/ Pumpkin time was early.<\/p>\n<p>Now the problem is mostly because I have So Much Reading to do for school.  It doesn&#8217;t matter if I try reading first thing in the morning, in the afternoon, or after I put the kids to bed.  It doesn&#8217;t matter if I&#8217;m at my desk, at the kitchen table, or on the couch.  Within a few pages my eyes are heavy and next thing I know I&#8217;m waking up.<\/p>\n<p>I have to allot several sessions to get a reading done because I know I will not be able to stay awake through a sitting.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if I drink coffee.  I can fall asleep drinking a cup of coffee.  I can put on music, sit outside, even read at the university.  Anywhere, anytime &#8212; I&#8217;m asleep.  And once I&#8217;m out there&#8217;s no bringing me back.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d appreciate any tips for staying awake or how to read while sleeping so I can get through this &#8220;chapter&#8221; of my life. <em> (egads!  more humour!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to start daily blogging of insurmountable problems. But it turned out to be impossible. (see? I have a sense of humour!) The latest struggle: staying awake. I&#8217;ve always had trouble staying awake. As a babysitter I had to work hard to stay awake until the kids were asleep. Usually the parents woke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,33,39,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}