I really shouldn't be saying this, but today I feel like I'm basically sleepwalking.  It's terrible...I can't seem to fall asleep before 11pm anymore, and 3am seems to be my breaking point.
So it's no great surprise that I'm finding my attention span is not holding up like it should or for that matter is coming even close.  To work around that I've started to take chapter notes in pieces...which is working for its purpose, but the extra free time is still being thrown away because I still haven't been able to come to terms with taking breaks safely.
I think that issue has to be responsible for a good 80 percent of the current sleep problems I'm having because I am out of ideas on how I can employ mental trickery to make that work.  The desperation is coming from the fact that I just practically don't have a lot of time left to solve it...I want to make sure there is time to mess with any plans to that end and adjust them as needed, because once the fall rolls around I'll need a tactic that works, or else.
But since I haven't been able to solve this issue, I haven't been able to sleep.  Since I haven't been sleeping well, my head really isn't clear with thoughts anymore.  You can probably figure out what that means from there.