Insomnia

it was 1994 and I was taking a TTC demo in Niyavaran's amphitheatre for the ILI. the word had escaped my mind and the immediate person to help me was an American lady who told me the word only when I said sleeplessness. sometimes I think I am a nocturnal man, since from early twenties till now perhaps only a couple of good nights I have been able to sleep myself. one basic reason since my MA days in Teheran was the stress for exams. it goes without saying that the night before tests, I can hardly sleep a wink and amazingly mostly have a good result. the most impressive instance was the night before my thesis defence session in 1999. I slept only 3 hours but managed to produce the desired result.
now tonight again, I can't sleep. tomorrow should handle an interview over polysystem theory: piece of cake though, but the stress is here...
perhaps I read some more The Line of Beauty, which I don't like at all, 501 pages of waste logorrhoea