somniferous \som-NIF-uhr-uhs\, adjective: Causing or inducing sleep.
Today's Dictionary.com word of the day is somniferous. I could not agree more. With the fact that today = somniferous.
I went to Deep Creek Lake with my friend Kim this weekend and we had a really great time. We were up partying until 3am on Saturday night after playing 8 rowdy games of beer pong and having the cops called on us (I have great pictures of this event which I will post soon). Needless to say, we got precious little sleep this weekend and now here we are back at work like we never left.
I'm not only sitting at my desk wishing I was sleeping rather than working, I also have nothing to do (correction: nothing of value to do). The quiet lull of computers humming in the office, whispering of coworkers (who usually shout and cause a ruckus), and the fact that I'm surviving on a serious lack of sleep is VERY somniferous and therefore detrimental to the work factor. Would they fire me if I fell asleep at my desk? I'd wake up with keyboard marks on my forehead.
An old friend and coworker of mine from AOL used to sleep at his desk for an hour every afternoon after lunch. He'd mastered the art of holding the mouse in his right hand while leaning his head in his left hand. If he was lucky, he would jerk slightly every few minutes which would wake up the screen when it went idle. Of course, we all knew about this habit of his, so we got into the practice of trying to wake him up by throwing wads of paper at him from our desks.
The antonym of Insomnia is Hypersomnia? I think I suffer from this. I want to, and wish I could, sleep all day, every day. How great would that be?
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Funny, Marianne had a picture of her cat on Flickr where she was like: My cat goes one place to sleep, wakes up, moves somewhere else, then goes back to sleep. OH TO BE A CAT.
I never got enough sleep, but I used to have to be to school by 7:45 and stay up till one reading and all that. Now I'm all domestic and do laundry on weekends and still don't get enough sleep. ???
What I wish is - that I didn't have to sleep at all, ever. That would be awesome.
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