Lately I’m extremely tired. Whenever I come near my bed it’s really hard to motivate my body for anything else than sleeping. I don’t understand it at all, as from a rational view I get enough sleep.

During spring & summer time I more or less worked about 60 hours a week, including weekends sometimes even 80. I couldn’t go on vacation as we were short one member in the finance team and so I only took on or two days off for flying or traveling to concerts from Alkaline Trio or Pearl Jam. Those were fun but it was not really relaxing. Additionally in spring the newly setup Blood Pact board kept me busy with membership registrations and when I think about it I can hardly remember a night with more than 5 hours sleep.

Now it’s fall and there are only few concerts. With Gaslight Anthem two weeks ago and the show tonight the party is over, as The Menzingers don’t hit mainland Europe (even though it was announced , which is the reason I didn’t get tickets for London …really disappointing) and Against Me! cancelled there tour dates. Work load isn’t that hard anymore, so I get about 7 hours sleep at night (most of the time at least) and still I’m absolutely tired. I can sleep in the train to work as easily as I can sleep standing in the bus, which both is a new experience for me.

What I’m asking myself is if the reason for being that tired is

a)      fall / winter itself, getting dark sooner, rainy / misty weather

b)      the fact that there are so few concerts (is this where my supply of energy comes from?)

c)      the point that I get 7 hours sleep a night, does that make me tired?

It’s really a pity that I’m not able to use the “new” free time for things I really like to do, like reading a book, playing guitar, sports, taking photos and so on….

It feels like I’m wasting my time with sleeping……