Notes From My (Chronic Lack of) Sleep Journal

Kinda have to pee. Too awake now that went to pee.

Viktoria Shulevich
Slackjaw

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  1. Went to bed way too late.
  2. Went to bed way too early.
  3. Too tired physically, emotionally, and mentally.
  4. Not tired enough. What did I even do all day?
  5. Too bright with the city lights streaming through the windows, damn you, Industrial Revolution.
  6. Too dark with the blackout shades, can’t even see my hand, it’s unnatural and borderline terrifying.
  7. Too much noise from the upstairs neighbor coughing.
  8. Too quiet, is it normal to hear your own heart beating? Is the upstairs neighbor dead from coughing?
  9. Too ambient.
  10. What is ambient?
  11. Too tingly–left foot fell asleep.
  12. Too angry–shaking out left foot with resentment and jealousy.
  13. Moon too full, gravitational pull too strong, sinking deeper and deeper into the bed like quicksand, must stay vigilant.
  14. Moon not full enough, gravitational pull too weak, body can float away at any moment, must stay vigilant.
  15. Kinda have to pee.
  16. Really have to pee.

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Viktoria Shulevich
Slackjaw

I write humor, essays and children’s fiction. Read my funny stuff in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Belladonna, Slackjaw, Points in Case and more!