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Sleep With the Fishes - SCN
Jul. 27th, 2003 03:00 amI'm going to try and start writing everyday. Not that I've had much trouble doing that recently. But...I just want to begin getting in the habit of writing more often. I also want to begin using my journals for a more therapeutic purpose, to sort of untangle the stuff I have going on in my head. Yesterdays entry was my first attempt at it and I felt quite well when it was all done.
Tonight, strange as it may sound, I'm thinking about naps.
When you say the word nap to me the first thing I think of is Knox and how we always said there should be campus wide nap time everyday. After all, college is so stressful and the schedule so taxing that students hardly ever get an opportunity to unwind. One particular day in the Memorial Gym I was talking to...might have been Adrienne Gardner. Or Alison Looney. It was one of those English Lit people. Anyway, I was saying that once a day after lunch when everyones tummies were full, the student body should retire to the gym where there would be little cots set out on the basketball court with little blue blankets waiting for them. And there would be an hour nap time. Someone with a soothing voice, like Jon Wagner, would sit in the middle of the gym with a microphone and read James Joyce's Ulysses to put us to sleep. Doesn't that sound fabulous? I know I would have loved it.
Naps were very important to me last term when I was waking up at 7 AM and rehearsing well after midnight. In the middle of the day I had to have a nap or else I couldn't function. I think back to my Junior year when I was running around like a mad woman and I think that I might have been more productive if I'd taken naps those days.
My mom takes naps after a busy day because her body is getting old and can't endure as much as it used to. Kids need to nap because their bodies haven't built up enough endurence yet. Or sometimes because they are too hyperactive and need to calm down.
Napping is very productive. It lets our body and mind relax. I'd even say that lounging in a bath tub or taking a nice long walk and spacing out approximates napping. Because it gives you the opportunity to put yourself on hold. To just say no to all your regular worries and obsessions.
I don't nap now because doing so would be bad for me since I'm skirting the border of depression in my inertia. But maybe when I'm busy and frazzled again I'll remember to nap once in a while. :-)
Tonight, strange as it may sound, I'm thinking about naps.
When you say the word nap to me the first thing I think of is Knox and how we always said there should be campus wide nap time everyday. After all, college is so stressful and the schedule so taxing that students hardly ever get an opportunity to unwind. One particular day in the Memorial Gym I was talking to...might have been Adrienne Gardner. Or Alison Looney. It was one of those English Lit people. Anyway, I was saying that once a day after lunch when everyones tummies were full, the student body should retire to the gym where there would be little cots set out on the basketball court with little blue blankets waiting for them. And there would be an hour nap time. Someone with a soothing voice, like Jon Wagner, would sit in the middle of the gym with a microphone and read James Joyce's Ulysses to put us to sleep. Doesn't that sound fabulous? I know I would have loved it.
Naps were very important to me last term when I was waking up at 7 AM and rehearsing well after midnight. In the middle of the day I had to have a nap or else I couldn't function. I think back to my Junior year when I was running around like a mad woman and I think that I might have been more productive if I'd taken naps those days.
My mom takes naps after a busy day because her body is getting old and can't endure as much as it used to. Kids need to nap because their bodies haven't built up enough endurence yet. Or sometimes because they are too hyperactive and need to calm down.
Napping is very productive. It lets our body and mind relax. I'd even say that lounging in a bath tub or taking a nice long walk and spacing out approximates napping. Because it gives you the opportunity to put yourself on hold. To just say no to all your regular worries and obsessions.
I don't nap now because doing so would be bad for me since I'm skirting the border of depression in my inertia. But maybe when I'm busy and frazzled again I'll remember to nap once in a while. :-)
