Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keep Asleep...
Insomnia does not manifest itself directly as stress about the next day of paper-writing or an imminent exam. Insomnia for me meant worrying incessantly, for the first time in my life, that I would not be able to fall asleep. I spent my many waking night-time hours yelling frantically at myself: "Sleep! Sleep! Relax! RELAX!" When self-punishment failed to calm me down, I turned on the tape recorder. I paced, manically. I pounded my mattress. I stared into the light bulbs until my eyes watered. I cried, almost...
...thesis will be late. You'll be unemployed forever. You had too much caffeine as a child. The doctor always told you not to eat coffee grounds raw. You'll get an ulcer. You'll give your father a heart attack and your mother diabetes. You will never fall asleep. You don't deserve to fall asleep. And what if you oversleep...
There does seem to be a spreading sense that too many rules have been bent and too many watchdogs asleep. And too many debts left unpaid. "What epitomized the 1980s was, Spend now, pay later," says David Colander, economics professor at Middlebury College. "What will epitomize the 1990s is, Pay now." This involves not just all the credit-card loans or the interest on the leveraged buyouts but also a lot of ignored problems. "Domestically, we have bulldozed so many things into the future," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, "that now we are going to have...