Sleepless..

Its 1:40 am by my watch and not an iota of sleep in my eyes, am wide awake and restless. I am having terrible cough and cold, my nose running, so no fan for me and to add to the vexation the weather is not good enough to sleep off without a fan! I have been switching the fan on and off every now and then - my nose gets worse with the fan, and my discomfort increases without it! How irritating can that be! Its at the peak now. May be it comes down by the time I finish this.

Its one of those rare nights when nothing works at all. Normally 15 minutes of reading or a movie is enough to put me off to sleep.

A friend had joined me for dinner and I was all prepared to sleep after he left at 9:40 p.m. I usually don't go to bed too early but today I thought I would due to this cold which proved so annoying. I read for around forty minutes, calls from friends interspersed. The book did no good so chatted for another half an hour. My cold was taking a toll on me! My sleep was coming down and restlessness increasing. To top it all I was hungry when I was in no mood or disposition to get up and cook something for myself. But it was hunger which took a greater toll and I did get up - prepared maggi, toasted bread and smeared some jam on it. Ate leisurely hoping I would get sleep after that. God knows what made me think maggi and toast would have sedative effects!

Done with second round of dinner or a really early breakfast I tried to sleep for sometime. All in vain! Getting up before 10 a.m next morning would almost be impossible! I went on for a bath and a head wash! Yes with that cold! It may be insanity or may be I was unconsciously trying to complete all the early morning chores so that I would just get up from bed, change and go to office the next 'morning'.

I have just completed dusting the room now, I switched on my laptop and have started writing this. Its 2:10 now. I will post this and let me see what follows. Atleast I have spent almost half an hour without any uneasiness. I hope I am able to drive away that maddening spirit out of me and sleep off now.

(Coughing incessantly now! Courtesy - my head bath! :( Grrr)