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Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Nice thing about Dave's appeal worldwide...here in Mexico, I come on and play wiht the China TEFLers, when I am sleepless. They are a raucous bunch, up at any hour.

peabody · Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 76 Location: sydney

Cardinal Synn · Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 586

Guy, please don't take this the wrong way, but when I first saw your pic I thought it was one of those adverts from an animal protection group where they show you pets that have been mistreated. I now realize it's your dog getting its hair cut, hence the sad expression. Embarassed

peabody · Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 76 Location: sydney

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

You are in Sydney...correct?

Come visit us anytime. 24 hours flight time from Australia and you get to arrive before you left!

peabody · Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 76 Location: sydney

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

2006 World Cup is in Mexico? Had no idea...that's how big a soccer fan I am. Still waiting for a good hockey tourney to be announced for Mexico City. 4 years, still waiting....

My poor dog...looks like a shaved rat. Santa should have brought him a little coat for Christmas.

Spinoza · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Saudi Arabia

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

I sleep like a baby--read for awhile and the zzzzzs are buzzing.

One thing that I read somewhere is that if you are tossing and turning you should get up and read and you'll go to sleep faster. I don't know about that, or about the warm milk remedy....

distiller · Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 249

I usually find a nice warm shower or bath helps me get to sleep. Also seeing as that there is almost always some kind of work or prep to be done, doing some of that usually does it as well.

And fellas, the next world cup is in Germany in 2006, I believe the World Cup was in Mexico in 1986 and Argentina won with the help of Maradona's "hand of god" against England.

homersimpson · Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 569 Location: Kagoshima

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

I get out of bed and have a snack and log on to dave's. And then I stress out about how little sleep I am getting and how crappy I am going to feel the next morning.

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Atlas · Joined: 09 Jun 2003 Posts: 662 Location: By-the-Sea PRC

Someone once said if you were locked in a room with no light from the sun, every day you would go to bed a little later and wake up a little later.

Try not to drink cola or coffee in the evening after dinner. Anyway good luck.

PS I can relate to the resentment you feel towards the moral upbringing. If I knew then what I know now... who knows.

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

Watching TV does it for me. It doesn't seem to matter if there's something on that I enjoy or not, within 20 minutes I'm usually sound asleep, whether I want to sleep or not.

Unlike when I lived in the USA, for some unknown reason I've never really had problems with insomnia since living in Mexico. Things that used to keep me awake at night "back home" -- neighbor's dog barking, traffic noises, a phone call and not being able to get back to sleep, etc. -- it seems now that I can (and often do) sleep through almost anything.