I don’t really know why, but for the last three days my body likes sleep. I mean, really, really likes sleep. I’ve slept over 10 hours three days in a row. And yet, at the same time, I’ve woken up around 4-5am to either take water into my body, or let it out. Plus, I had the closest to a nightmare last night that I’ve ever had. I was a female police officer who was being stalked by a serial killer. I ended up killing him, but only barely. He had a bullet-proof vest on, but one of my shots went wide and hit his femoral artery and he bled out. Lovely dream, huh? It wasn’t totally scary in the sense that I woke up in a cold sweat, more scary as in “what the heck am I having dreams like that for?” sense. Anyway, this has pushed my work schedule back so that I’ve been at the office from around 10am-6pm. I’ve been bringing my lunch and eating at my desk (which is fortunate since I can work straight through lunch), otherwise I’d be here even later. The real downside to this whole strange schedule is that by the time I get to campus there’s no parking around my office and I have to hunt all over campus looking for an undefended spot to pounce on. Parking being one of my major pet peeves, this can sometimes cause me undue frustration. Fortunately, today’s weather was so wonderful, I just cranked up the music and chilled. Took my camera into the office and snapped off a ton of fun photos. Even got one of a hawk on the roof of my office. Then proceeded to snap some from the roof of my building. Fun stuff.
And like clockwork…
Left by Jordan on February 17th, 2006
Perhaps it is a sign of aging
Or maybe the marriage is going really well and too many of Jaime’s hormones are rubbing off on you.
Google has some sleep aids suggested for you just to the right of our post.
Left by David M on February 17th, 2006
I’m pretty sure the femoral artery is a lower extremity thing. The last time I checked, bullet proof vests were an upper body thing. So…how did your shot go wide, miss the vest, and hit his femoral? Were one of you not vertical?
What constituted the nightmare status, being a woman or being the serial killers victim?
Left by lin on February 25th, 2006
Definitely being a serial killer’s victim. Then again, it’s probably the first dream I remember where I was a woman. Exept, I’m only kinda female, I’m more like the audience viewing through a mostly first, sometimes third, person perspective movie. So in one sense, she was “me”, but it wasn’t like, “oh yeah, that’s Jordan Wiens the female police officer”.
Good observation and one I didn’t really consciously think about when I posted it — I was on the other side of a bed when the bad guy walked in and as I started shooting, I lunged horizontally behind the bed to take cover. I’m not clear to me at this point whether the femoral shot happened from mid-air above the bed, or after I was on the ground shooting from below the bed or not, but it really was a femoral shot that “went wide”, not just “went low”.
Left by Jordan on February 25th, 2006