Edit0r’s Bloog

I’ve been thinking about sex lately. Not the actual deed itself, but peoples’ attitudes towards it. It started a few days ago while manning a checkout at Sainsbury’s. It was near the end of the night, about 9:30pm, and I see this guy looking obviously embarrassed walking towards my till, with apparently nothing in his hands. As soon as he reached me he pulled a packet of condoms, I swear, out of nowhere. Shifty eyes on his part. After I scanned the offending item through, it magically disappeared again before I gave him his change. What I didn’t understand was why he, or anyone for that matter, should be embarrassed about sex related items/topics. It’s a subject which goes beyond completely natural, because it’s what we as a species were designed for! Virtually everything we do is driven by sex, so why do most of us shy away from it in public? I’d very much like to hear your comments on this, so please make use of the (rather neglected at the moment) comments facility, or maybe even the shiny brand spanking new shoutbox to the right.

I often have trouble getting up in the morning, and now it’s gone beyond funny. I reckon I’ve missed almost two entire weeks of physics and maths lectures because I find it so hard to get up in the mornings. After going to the doctor to no avail, I did some research into sleep disorders on the internet, and came across the absolutely brilliant Sleepnet. I read some of the articles on the site, but didn’t really get anywhere, as none of them really described my symptoms. Then, just out of curiosity I took a look at the page about narcolepsy. Now, if any of you think as I did that narcolepsy is just a general tiredness that old people get, think again. I found it described my symptoms to a tee! Excessive daytime sleeping, sleep paralysis, sleep attacks, and hypnagogic hallucinations are the most common ailments associated with narcolepsy, and I can say with a great deal of certainty that I regularly experience all of these. So, another trip the doctor. Apparently, the normal treatment is stimulants such as amphetamines, and sticking to a sensible sleeping pattern. In lieu of that, I bought myself a proper alarm clock and have decided to force myself to bed at reasonably sensible times. So far so good, but I wonder how long I’ll be able to keep it up…

On a happier note, I’ve upgraded my WordPress installation to 2.3.1, and added a shoutbox widget to my sidebar. I was quite pleased that it saw proper a few seconds after I added it, as my brother was viewing the blog at the time! It wasn’t properly widgetified, but a few minutes of coding fixed that. So yay, use it!