My journal by Erik Cifuentes

Little Guatemala

erc47706 — 2024-05-08 22:26:06 UTC

Today I went and visited Little Guatemala in Morgantown, where a tiny section is dedicated to a group of residents in town who are from Guatemala. I haven't been able to track my sleep or try make much progress since I am traveling, but I can say I have been more reasonable for when I go to bed since I am more openly exposed to others during bedtime

Removing Stimuli

erc47706 — 2024-05-08 22:31:37 UTC

I have known for a while that one of the main problems of my terrible sleep schedule is my phone, which I use as a sleep aid. So for the rest of the week, I am going to try not to use my phone, and then next week compare those results to which I am going to see if I wake up any earlier or later

Somewhat results

erc47706 — 2024-05-09 00:02:56 UTC

So for the past few days, I have been doing my normal routine in regard to sleep, i.e. using my phone. based on the last four days, there is definitely an improvement that last week had made against this week, more reasonable time waking up, and a longer amount of sleep in general. However, sometimes during both weeks, I felt more tired and less motivated to get out of bed than other days, for reasons I do not know yet

Working through midterm crunch

erc47706 — 2024-05-09 01:10:56 UTC

So as expected of me I am working through the Mid-term crunch and as expected, I am staying up long after I should have gone to bed. I understand this is my fault and is seriously inhibiting my sleep, but this is what I have to do for putting stuff off. I need to teach myself in the future how to get the motivation to put in my work on a weekly basis and not in one sitting

Keeping steady

erc47706 — 2024-05-09 01:28:15 UTC

Now that I have a break I feel that I would be much more inclined to stay up later, but I am trying to stay true to my change and have not been going crazy when it comes to going to bed at unreasonable times

Hiccup

erc47706 — 2024-05-09 01:43:12 UTC

Today I feel like it is a good day to write one of these since I completely screwed up. I went to bed normally at around 11 and then woke up 3 hours later at 1, and then proceeded to try to get myself comfortable to fall asleep again, then gave up and stayed up looking at my phone for the next 6 hours. I wish I could consciously get myself to sleep

Good so far

erc47706 — 2024-05-09 02:11:34 UTC

Been a pretty good week in regard to my sleep. I have been fairly consistent, slept around 10, and woke up around 9 for 3 days straight. I don't know how am keeping this consistent, but I don't think I want to change anything to prevent it.

Great streak

erc47706 — 2024-05-09 02:21:39 UTC

Coming off of last week I have been having a really good time with sleep. Still keeping my consistency with my times of going and getting up. Though I did stay up until one on monday since I was watching something I was waiting to watch on tv, but I didn't have class the next day so I didn't count it.

Beginning of the end

erc47706 — 2024-05-09 02:34:10 UTC

It's starting, the trees are starting to bloom so pollen is coming. I'm starting to actually see it on stuff outside. For those unaware I am severely allergic to tree pollen and ragweed, which destroys me. For right now I'm just taking allergy medicine daily to build up an acute resistance for when stuff starts hitting the fan. If anything is going to seriously throw off my sleep, it's pollen.