Bleh bleh bleh

As some of you know, I've been having a sleep problem for well over a year now. I'll fall asleep only to wake up every two hours or so, never really getting to the REM cycle. The months leading up to my trip were the worst and it had a major (and detrimental) effect on my quality of life.

I love sleep. I need sleep. I am cranky if I do not get sleep. I was wildly miserable for months and was pretty unpleasant to be around at least 40% of the time. Lack of sleep plus stress of putting together the trip plus saving money hard core plus work stress equaled one cracked-out Nicole.

Then...I get into Delhi, check into a non-a/c room in the August Delhi heat with flies buzzing around and noise coming from everywhere and fall fast asleep for 5 hours. With the exception of the night I spent in the desert (where I was too dazzled by the stars to close my eyes) I slept like a baby in India and Nepal. Same with every other country.

I come back here and a month later...blam! Back to the same sleep problems and same crankiness problems (though I am trying to get that in control). Yesterday, I had such a bad headache from the sleepiness that I started throwing up and it turned into a full-blown migraine. I went home and spent the evening sleeping fitfully and praying that my head would stop throbbing. I took today off of work and went to the doctor's finally to get this sorted.

He really wasn't much help. Sleeping pills and something for the headaches. He asked if I was stressed at work. HAHAHAH! Every since person in Korea is stressed at work. Seriously.

Well, that's part of the reason I haven't been blogging much, that and lack of internet. It's been hard getting myself out of bed to go running but that's the only thing keeping me normal and not-so-sluggish. I shall leave you with cute pictures of me and students to end this on a cheery note.