This morning I watched the most recent CNN podcast, which contains a segement on the plight of Detroit and the American auto industry. Turns out that if you build gargantuan, fuel guzzling SUV’s whilst your competitors build cheaper, smaller, more economical alternatives then your business model leaves you on the brink of disaster. Who knew?
Aside from Honda, Toyota, and the European arms attached to those Detroit megacorps, I mean?
After another night of broken sleep, courtesy of my little daughter paying numerous visits, I found it quite apt to see Matt’s post of this NY Times article on the importance of sleep on my WordPress dashboard this morning.
Yes, the article contains the usual sleep related fodder, like how the brain doesn’t just shut down but actually processes stuff. That and the eye-opening (sorry) fact that you perform better after a good night’s sleep.
No kidding?
What is interesting is the mention of changing attitudes toward sleep in corporate circles. Fliss actually worked at a place with a relaxation room, back at the tail end of 2001 (Enjoy-Work.com), where you were encouraged to go and lie down on recliners in a dark room and listen to ambient sounds to soothe you. I’ve yet to learn of a company that encourages you to top up on your sleep whilst you’re at work, though – the chance would be a fine thing!
I can safely say that I haven’t had a really good night’s sleep in years. I’m just rubbish at it – I either wake up when there’s no reason to, or have it sabotaged in some way – like on Saturday night when the rail company were chopping down trackside trees along the nearby railway line at 2am. The trains are too infrequent to disturb me, but rasping chainsaws within earshot are not conducive to deep sleep.
Maybe I should see if there are any sleeping analysis places in Glasgow? You know, the places that monitor you and tell you what’s going wrong after your head hits the pillow. I’ve thought of doing that before, of course, but then the fear of waking up with morning glory usually deters me from taking it any further! 😉
No, actually, it’s maybe because the Christian terms for these particular holidays are irrelevant to the service provided by the college, namely education.
It is funny how easily religious groups rise to make their outrage known over things like this. I especially like the quote “We are a Christian country and religious tolerance is about respecting other people’s religious beliefs.”
Oh, are we now?
Myself and my partner are atheists, with a child who we intend to shelter from religion until she is old enough to make an informed decision either way, but are living in a country so awash with pandering to religiosity that it really does feel suffocating. You mustn’t offend the religious people by not respecting their beliefs.
Why? It’s a bloody rare thing that they show any tolerance for athiests.