i’m hitting up the pubmed tonight… with my attention span of next-to-nothing and with the hopes of finding a couple of references that will support my entirely novel (and apparently never-before-investigated in any system whatsoever) results.

being this novel is pretty sweet, but it means trying lots of literature search terms to find something- anything- that might support your results.

imagine my surprise when searching for [topic of interest + subtopic + search term 11], finding a paper about sleep quality and daytime performance. which is entirely unrelated to any of the search terms i used.

what i haven’t told you yet, is that i’m consistently running on <3 hours/night of sleep at this point, and the hyperarousal syndrome doesn’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. (july in general is never a good month for this, but this + graduating = hell.) i think pubmed is trying to tell me something.