Fourth (lack of) sleep note. Video, at a normal time of day.

[11calls]

[Alex looks pretty much like crap. She's got multiple mugs in front of her, and she's sitting at her desk at work. There's dark circles under her eyes, and she's definitely missing some of her normal spark.]

Okay, so the worst thing about being a kid for a few days is that you get to sleep like a kid for a few days. Which was pretty amazing. But now it's just making this whole lack of sleep thing all the more pronounced and I'm definitely not loving this.

So, I'm opening the floor for suggestions. Back home, I actually have a sleep specialist, but honestly she's not all that helpful. I do all the things I'm supposed to: no electronics for two hours before bedtime, progressive muscle relaxation, the "the" game, pot... Basically you name it and I've tried it.

[Alex is going to shrug and not actually list all the things she's tried because well, open channel and all that. But she actually has tried basically everything she can get her hands on, including medication.]

But my world is limited in what it has, so I'm willing to try basically anything within reason at this point. Sleep potions? Spells? Weird tech? Whatever. I have just got to get some sleep, and they don't really have Casper mattresses here. [That's a joke and comes with a thin smile. Casper mattresses are something that her insomniac self plugs on her show all the time.]

Comments

[11calls]

Yes, on video about the demons, they're a huge part of my show at this point. Yes about the body, a friend and I discovered it and animal death was just a really, really really bad nightmare.

[jolting]

I'm not a psychologist, but the brain does often play back events and memories from your life when you sleep. I've experienced dreams like that myself.

Maybe you should try to find a therapist here. I can give you whatever drugs you want, but those memories and thoughts will still be there when the drug wears off.

[11calls]

I was having therapy with Dr. Beiner. But it's hard to talk about this sort of thing without seeming like you're completely insane, you know? Demons and murders and the end of the world.... That's the sort of thing that would end with you being locked up somewhere.

Spooky mental hospitals are definitely some of my least favorite places in the world.

[jolting]

Heh. I guess we were pretty lucky to have Doctor Hopper. If I get a chance, I'll have to thank him.

[11calls]

Sounds like it. Though I have to ask who he was back home.

[jolting]

Jiminy Cricket, of course. Who better than a conscience to help you with your problems?

[11calls]

[Alex is just going to grin.]

I guess that depends on your problems, huh?
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[Bad joke ahoy.]

[jolting]

I don't know, for a guy who got his degree by way of an evil spell, he's pretty damn good at his job.

[11calls]

Huh. Did the spell give him like actual knowledge or is it just because he's a really good person?

Or cricket, I guess.

[No, that's not a bright and amused grin.]

[jolting]

A little bit of both. We were all cursed with modern knowledge, which is how I can be a doctor at the hospital.

And he's a person. Apparently he was a person first and then wished to be a cricket.

[11calls]

Ah, gotcha. At least that's better than not having any idea about modern knowledge. Just seeing how some people need to adjust here, I can imagine that it would be a mess if you didn't.

[Alex's just going to stare for a minute.]

Really? Why a cricket?

[jolting]

No idea. You'd have to ask him. Or maybe Lucy knows that story.

[11calls]

I'll ask her! Just on the off chance he never shows up.