I’m a little groggy and foggy today. I don’t know why, but on Monday and again today I fell into a deep sleep shortly after waking up in the morning. I spent hours and hours sleeping on the couch. Sleeping profoundly. For no apparent reason. Fortunately it doesn’t seem to affect night sleep…I can sleep all night, most of the day, and then all night again.
The only problem is that even when you’re unemployed, you still have things you want to accomplish, and adopting the sleeping habits of a housecat is not conducive to getting things done.
The other problem is that if you sleep all the time, it doesn’t give you much to blog about. But I won’t let that stop me.
GC and I have made three visits to Champlain Park this week in a quest for a geocache that continues to elude us.
The first visit was in the evening. We looked for half an hour and then decided we needed a more precise longitude and latitude.
We went back yesterday in broad daylight, when Muggles abounded. (Muggles are ‘non-geochachers’ – you have to be discreet when geocaching in their midst, because you don’t want them to see the cache.) We also felt a bit weird about the possibility of being seen as suspicious lurkers in a children’s park. We searched uncomfortably, careful not to even glance at the children splashing in the wading pool, but we found nothing and eventually we left.
We returned after dark. By this time we were convinced – based on an online discussion log about this cache – that it was hidden in one of the evergreen trees. With the help of a flashlight, we groped all the park’s evergreen trees and came up empty-handed.
GC and I refuse to give up. Tonight we’re going to the Ottawa Geocaching Workshop at the Dovercourt Community Centre, in the hopes of gleaning more information about how geocaching works. (Afterwards we’re going to Raw Sugar to catch The Somerset Heights Literary Society.)
In other news, I took the Myers-Briggs Personality Test on Facebook today.
I’m a INTP (Introversion, Intuitive, Thinking, Perception). (You seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests you. You are theoretical and abstract, and are interested more in ideas than in social interaction. You are quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. You have an unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in your area of interest. You are skeptical, sometimes critical, and always analytical.)
GC is ENFJ: Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judgement). (You are warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. (You are highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. You find potential in everyone, and want to help others fulfill their potential. You may act as a catalyst for individual and group growth. You are loyal, and are responsive to praise and criticism. You are sociable, facilitate others in a group, and provide inspiring leadership.)
We think it’s pretty accurate about both of us, even though it doesn’t say anything about our increasingly unnatural obsession with finding the geocache in Champlain Park.
That’s so weird that you brought up myers-briggs, because as I was reading, I was thinking about what you types you and GC might be. I figured you must both be extraverts because you go out so much — surely you must be on the I/E borderline??? I’m ENFP, my husband is INTP. I think the NFs and NTs are good matches.
Do you have more info on the Geocaching Workshop? Like a website maybe? I can’t find anything on the Dovecourt website…
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c73010b4-245a-40bd-9a19-20508d86ff74
Best advice I could have for you is: Be gentle with yourself.
Couple of links for you to follow: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MIT/content/MIT_2_3X_Cancer-Related_Fatigue_Plagues_Many_Patients.asp
and more locally, Julie Mason wrote this: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Health/word/1740797/story.html
An excerpt:
“Many people with cancer continue to work, but they often need rest during the day. Workplaces that provide a quiet room for a nap allow an employee to continue to be productive.
The fatigue from cancer or other chronic illness brings loss and grief.
It’s hard to have to give up things we love — like bike riding on Sunday mornings or bending over to plant veggies. As a stubbornly independent person, I found it difficult to accept help.
…with all the emphasis on survivorship, it’s easy to forget that invisible and long-term fatigue is the price many of us pay for living with cancer. Remember that the next time you pass a slow-walker in the park.”
I think my IFSJ is pretty accurate too. And given that I am ‘concerned with how others feel’ . . . listen to your tired body. It’s trying to tell you something.
Yes, Grace! Our bodies tell us what we need … and they are very intuitive! Rest Zoom! And let GC take good care of you!
I’m an ESFJ. Or at least I was in high school. According to wikipedia, it means that I seek approval, subjective, empirical, opinionated, and attempt to organize. I’d say that’s pretty accurate.
Pain is a stressor as well and since it takes your body energy to deal with the back pain, you need to sleep. Nothing wrong with being a housecat for a while.
My husband is very interested in geocaching and has been trying to find a group in our area (southern NJ). It sounds like it could be fun.
I agree with the others – if your body didn’t need the sleep, you wouldn’t be sleeping.
The geocaching sounds like a lot of fun. Are you thinking yet of setting up one of your own?
This ENFP has found the profile to be pretty darned accurate… at least in my case. As for the catnapping thing, well, it’s worked for them for thousands of years, so maybe it can work for you for a few days? Maybe?
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