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[amethyst73]

Sudafed PE 12-hour is non-drowsy!

That's what the box says, all right.

Non-drowsy.  Yup.

*sigh*

Comments

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that stuff is a serious upper. There's a reason why the original sudafed formulation is now controlled as a major ingredient in meth. The PE stuff is not the same, but still an upper.

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, it's not really done this to me before.

There were other factors as well, of course, about which more soon.

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

I think that might be the decongestant that nearly led me to call poison control on myself, yeah. Hope you got some sleep eventually.

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I think, to be fair, I did get some doze/sleep between 11 and 3, and probably got some more between 5:30 and 8:15. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been as functional as I ended up being today.

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

Yikes. That's... not great. I hope you can recover over the weekend!

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Especially given that with the cough and other allergy symptoms, this is now three nights running in which I really haven't gotten a very good night's sleep!

Ah well, I did learn to have a good time/be quite functional while still being rather tired while in China. Time to put those lessons to good use, I suppose.

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

You should teach the rest of us. :)

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Ummmm... So here's what you do:

You schedule for yourself really really full days, with meals almost always being large social affairs. You get maybe 1.5 hours to yourself and your roommate late in the afternoon, then go back to being really really busy. Dinner could potentially be anytime between 6:30 and 11 PM, and you don't get any say as to when it is. You fall down and go to sleep sometime between 11 and midnight, and get a wakeup call anytime between 7 and 8:15, and repeat.

Some of the stuff you're doing is stuff that you are expected to be awake and functioning for, like singing rehearsals. Some of the stuff you're doing is stuff you really *want* to do, like seeing incredibly cool things in a faraway country. Either way, you kind of need to be functional if it's going to work.

We were at least kind of tired almost constantly while in China, but we either had to be functional or really wanted to be functional. So we were. *shrug*

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounds pretty much like choir tour. *big grin* Somehow, I can't make choir tour schedule work for me in real life.

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

I've heard the other way of teaching yourself to be functional while very tired is to have a kid. ;)

I think the only reason choir tour schedule is still sort of working for me is because (1) it's still in the relatively recent past, and (2) there really are things that I need to get done despite being very tired, so I do.