h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Caerwynn, it just takes a lot of recovering later.

IIEM, a blue java, please. I am still sleepy and I am supposed to w*rk. Unfair. I need an to w*rk for me.

I'll do it. What's pay like?

Well, don't look at me!

Yet another sleepless night - is that Mercury messing things up right now?

I need to start using the tricks I read about in a magazine recently: don't spend hours twisting around in bed, only 15-20 minutes and if you haven't fallen asleep by then, you get up and *stay* up equal amount of time before going to bed again.

The trouble is:

a) To find out exactly how long I've been twisting and turning, I'd have to keep an eye on my clock - which I try to avoid, because it usually makes me feel stressed because 'now there's only two hours left before I have to get up and I *really* need to get some sleep before that!

b) You're not supposed to do anything entertaining or light any lamps while you're up, so no TV, no reading, no PC games - I guess you are supposed to fall asleep once you're back in bed out of pure boredom...

IIEM, a glass of cranberry juice please - I'm on a detox diet

I've been told about them. I've found gardening during the day wears you out so much you fall almost instantly to sleep. Also, moving your bed around so it faces different directions, sleeping in a different bed, late nights and early mornings combined with some of the above usually help me.

In this part of the world gets a bowl of .

Oh, and Titania, I am supposed to write this week about how to place your bed to have a good . I'll tell you all about that when I am done with the interview.

[Mog] Got any tips for having a good ?

Not yet.

IIEM, a diet vanilla pepsi, please.

My latest sleep trick is to put a lavender sachet inside my pillow. It's been doing wonders...now, if only I could have everyone NOT wake me up, I'd be fine...

I make sure I exercise really hard about two hours before I hit the hay. I'm so tired, I sleep like a log!

I just made Mandarin style tofu stir fry...

...and I added chiles!

IIEM, something to cool my mouth off, quick!

Like a bowl of milk. Milks the best thing to drink with chillis.

Unless it's the band then some sort of beer would be in order.

In Feng Shui you should have the head of your bed towards the south, the foor pointing away from the door and no shelves or cupboards over the head end. Or was it head to the north and feet towards the door? Hopefully, you'll be able to enlighten us, Hati.

According to Staphatya Veda you're supposed to sleep with your head pointing towards the east, unless you're dying when you should point towards the north. You're supposed to have the entrance to all your builidings on the East, and never ever on the North.

My family used to take a compass camping so we'd be sleeping the right way and our community once bricked up an entrances because it was facing the right way - on all of their buildings - bunch of nutters..

[Mog] What if your door is in the direction your head should be?

So according to Staphy whatsits, we're .

I am sleeping with my head north and the door is in the same direction. I have a big room enough to try all the possible directions and that feels the best.
Enlightning will be in the evening, I'll meet the specialist in 2 hours.

Um, okay. My house door is on the south. My bed is on the south wall, because there's no way it will fit on any other wall besides the north, and I am not currently dying.

IIEM, could I have a cold glass of water and two ibuprophen? My head hurts just thinking about this stuff.

h2g2 is very shaky again. Maybe they should reconsider the way servers are placed...

The lavender sachet sounds lovely MR - I'll try it!

The head end of my bed is to the north, against the north wall - I once tried having it the other way around, against the south wall, but felt uncomfortable not being able to see the bedroom door from my bed.

Head end to the west would mean I'd be lying in front of the door, and to the east in front of the window - neither way would be very Feng Shui, I think...

IIEM, a cranberry juice, please...

Ok but the head of my bed faces east coz i want an east facing altar and can't get it in anywhere else. What does that mean?