Model
FIT Dana
Posts: 35
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
I can't sleep
I think I ate to much for labor day
Model
Dea and the Beast
Posts: 4796
Saint Petersburg, Florida, US
FIT Dana wrote:
I can't sleep
I think I ate to much for labor day Nice abs!
Photographer
MesmerEyes Photography
Posts: 3102
Galveston, Texas, US
Eurocat wrote:
Nice abs! I second that.
Sleep is overrated anyway. 
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
I noticed this thread.
Neither can I.
My sleep sucks.
Insomnia.
It's god awful.
Photographer
DougBPhoto
Posts: 39248
Portland, Oregon, US
I'm up !!
Wait, I mean, I'm awake!!
Good evening ladies and gentlemen... tonight's topic, threadkilling 101
/discussion
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
I noticed this thread.
Neither can I.
My sleep sucks.
Insomnia.
It's god awful. I sleep pretty odd hours too. I'm often up until 4 or 5 am... or sometimes I don't go to bed at all, until the next night.
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
I sleep pretty odd hours too. I'm often up until 4 or 5 am... or sometimes I don't go to bed at all, until the next night. What do you do when you have to work and your body won't let you sleep?
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
What do you do when you have to work and your body won't let you sleep? Just push through until the next night, to sleep... not much else I can do.
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
Just push through until the next night, to sleep... not much else I can do. I have a shoot tomorrow.
Hopefully I won't look like Dawn of the Dead.
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
I have a shoot tomorrow.
Hopefully I won't look like Dawn of the Dead. I empathize. On my last shoot, a few weeks ago, I couldn't sleep at all, and had been up for 2 days total when I finally got to my shoot (in the morning).
It went fine though, as I didn't feel like a total zombie. But I was exhausted, that evening.
Unfortunately I seem to get nervous before shoots and sometimes it gives me insomnia.
Model
Dea and the Beast
Posts: 4796
Saint Petersburg, Florida, US
I.thought it was the stupid jet lag, but it's just my old pal, fucking insomnia...
Time for sleepy study methinks....i just hope my heart won't stop three minutes or more /mild attempt at parody
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highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Eurocat wrote:
I.thought it was the stupid jet lag, but it's just my old pal, fucking insomnia...
Time for sleepy study methinks....i just hope my heart won't stop three minutes or more /mild attempt at parody Again? You're making a habit of it, aren't you?
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
I empathize. On my last shoot, a few weeks ago, I couldn't sleep at all, and had been up for 2 days total when I finally got to my shoot (in the morning).
It went fine though, as I didn't feel like a total zombie. But I was exhausted, that evening.
Unfortunately I seem to get nervous before shoots and sometimes it gives me insomnia. I've shot with this company quite a few times and did three of their catalogs. Not worried about tomorrow, just have so much more on my mind.
I woke up today depressed for no reason.
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highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
I've shot with this company quite a few times and did three of their catalogs. Not worried about tomorrow, just have so much more on my mind.
I woke up today depressed for no reason. My nervousness seems to be subconscious -- I don't actually worry about the shoots, beforehand. But maybe I end up thinking about them too much, at night, before the shoot.
Maybe that has something to do with it.
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
My nervousness seems to be subconscious -- I don't actually worry about the shoots, beforehand. But maybe I end up thinking about them too much, at night, before the shoot.
Maybe that has something to do with it. I think insomnia is directly related to over-thinking/mind activity.
I've keep odd hours since I was a kid so that's nothing new. I just suffer with it when creeping thoughts can't get out of my head. I'm pretty sure I know what it is, but I can't dumb it down.
I think I'd sleep a lot better if my life wasn't like a stray cat.
Model
Dea and the Beast
Posts: 4796
Saint Petersburg, Florida, US
aspergianLens wrote:
Again? You're making a habit of it, aren't you? It's made a habit of me!
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
I think I'd sleep a lot better if my life wasn't like a stray cat. How is your life like a stray cat?
Model
Dea and the Beast
Posts: 4796
Saint Petersburg, Florida, US
Jules NYC wrote:
I think insomnia is directly related to over-thinking/mind activity.
I've keep odd hours since I was a kid so that's nothing new. I just suffer with it when creeping thoughts can't get out of my head. I'm pretty sure I know what it is, but I can't dumb it down.
I think I'd sleep a lot better if my life wasn't like a stray cat. You and me both, lady. No dumbing down possible.
Can't dumb it down...and i love the stray cat analogy. Gonna use that one!
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
"How is your life like a stray cat?"
Well, for years, nothing has been permanent of anything.
I've done the whole office job thing and HATED it.
So I do music and model and always running here and there.
I'd like to have roots somewhere, a relationship. Seems like everything is transitory or I have to wait.
A lifetime of waiting.
Waiting for the right job, the right guy ~
You know, I don't mind running around aimlessly for work but after so much time being alone, you want someone to share the day to day.
This lifestyle is getting f'ing bullshit.
I was thinking about joining a partyband on a cruiseship but I thought for the amount of songs I'd have to learn by January (400) it really wasn't worth 600 a week.
Fuck that noise.
Stray cat?
Being lost I guess.
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Eurocat wrote:
It's made a habit of me! Same here. With me though, I had to work on getting off of Ambien - I developed a severe allergy to it (making me itch badly). That was a nightmare, since I couldn't just stop it.
if I did I couldn't sleep - so I had to wean off of it, altogether.
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
Stray cat?
Being lost I guess. That message is was rather mangled.
But yes, I see what you mean now.
And as for noise - it could overload me, sensory-wise.
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Eurocat wrote:
You and me both, lady. No dumbing down possible.
Can't dumb it down...and i love the stray cat analogy. Gonna use that one! 
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
That message is was rather mangled.
But yes, I see what you mean now. Yes, I can't deal with HTML now, ha ha
I'm so used to doing everything myself, being independent, having a flood of different decisions every two seconds.
It's a lot.
Model
Dea and the Beast
Posts: 4796
Saint Petersburg, Florida, US
I hear ya, Jules.
I can't even keep any bloody friends! I'm being invited to stuff but can't seem to make it, ever.
It's not all Champagne and limousines, this bizznes...
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Eurocat wrote:
I hear ya, Jules.
I can't even keep any bloody friends! I'm being invited to stuff but can't seem to make it, ever.
It's not all Champagne and limousines, this bizznes... I thought the "glamour" of it all is largely illusory.
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Eurocat wrote:
I hear ya, Jules.
I can't even keep any bloody friends! I'm being invited to stuff but can't seem to make it, ever.
It's not all Champagne and limousines, this bizznes... Let's talk about that... keeping friends.
I have friends all over the country, very few/hardly any 'real' friends.
I can't keep them either.
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
I thought glamour of it all is largely illusory. This business leaves you very lonely.
I wouldn't say that of myself, feeling loneliness, but sometimes it just hits you so hard, man, it just blows.
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
This business leaves you very lonely.
I wouldn't say that of myself, feeling loneliness, but sometimes it just hits you so hard, man, it just blows. I already have issues with social isolation, though, on top of the issues associated with photography and the business-like attitude most have.
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
I already have issues with social isolation, though, on top of the issues associated with photography and the business-like attitude most have. I spend pretty much 97% of my days alone unless I'm working of course. If I am lucky enough to enjoy someone's company, it's limited. Just a few days/hours, etc.
I am quite self-entertaining but I'm getting to the point where all of this doesn't seem 'normal', well, normal to me.
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
I spend pretty much 97% of my days alone unless I'm working of course. If I am lucky enough to enjoy someone's company, it's limited. Just a few days/hours, etc.
I am quite self-entertaining but I'm getting to the point where all of this doesn't seem 'normal', well, normal to me. I wasn't aware that modeling was that isolating.
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
I wasn't aware that modeling was that isolating. It is.
I keep getting jobs so I do it despite the fact I'm far from 17.
I'm more interested in music.
Sometimes I wonder if I'll get a 'legit' job and not worry about life so much, but I know it wouldn't last.
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
It is.
I keep getting jobs so I do it despite the fact I'm far from 17.
I'm more interested in music.
Sometimes I wonder if I'll get a 'legit' job and not worry about life so much, but I know it wouldn't last. My general impression of the trade (I consider it more of a trade than a profession) is that many people are standoffish and are more concerned about making money than they are about building friendships...
Perhaps it's not all like that, though?
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
My general impression of the trade (I consider it more of a trade than a profession) is that many people are standoffish and are more concerned about making money than they are about building friendships...
Perhaps it's not all like that, though? Most models I meet are very nice. On that note, most people that have issues or try to make you feel 'less than' or small are people NOT involved in modeling.
The arts in general is isolating.
It takes time 'alone' to create.
I gravitate towards artistic people so I guess I only get small doses of companionship.
As for friends, people can surely disappoint.
I could have auditioned for Rob Fusari but had to work a week, ONE fucking week. Told my fellow singer friend about it and got a reaction I didn't expect.
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
Most models I meet are very nice.
The arts in general is isolating. I agree. Most are, but I've had a few encounters than I regret...
I have had to remove a few people from my credits list, because of unwanted drama.
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
I agree. Most are, but I've had a few encounters than I regret... Hummm
Beauty is nice, so is youth.
Thing is, they are changeable things.
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
Hummm
Beauty is nice, so is youth.
Thing is, they are changeable things. Let's just say not everyone is as mature as they could be.
Model
Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
aspergianLens wrote:
Let's just say not everyone is as mature as they could be. No, not everyone is.
Funny, random thing...
I got a job for a runway show recently and the woman who casted me complimented me in a way I wish a man would.
I want a re-do.
In life.
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
No, not everyone is.
Funny, random thing...
I got a job for a runway show recently and the woman who casted me complimented me in a way I wish a man would.
I want a re-do.
In life. I am very leery of complimenting models. I don't want anything to be misconstrued.
I don't think I ever have, in fact, complimented any model.
Model
Dea and the Beast
Posts: 4796
Saint Petersburg, Florida, US
Jules NYC wrote:
This business leaves you very lonely.
I wouldn't say that of myself, feeling loneliness, but sometimes it just hits you so hard, man, it just blows. Right?!?!
My friend ( oversees, we Whatsapp) and i make what we call SingleServingFriends.
On the airplane, at dinner, in a bar, etc..dude/chick sitting next to you becomes my drinking buddy/shrink/pal/offendees (awkward  ) for the duration..
The faces of people when i tell them i DO NOT constantly hang out at cool clubs/ pool parties/stretch limos/country club with my superhot superhorny modelgirlfriends looking superbored..
I tell them it's mostly
Tired, hungry, cold and lonely...
Priceless expressions on their disillusioned little faces...
Photographer
highStrangeness
Posts: 2485
Carmichael, California, US
Eurocat wrote:
Right?!?!
My friend ( oversees, we Whatsapp) and i make what we call SingleServingFriends.
On the airplane, at dinner, in a bar, etc..dude/chick sitting next to you becomes my drinking buddy/shrink/pal/offendees (awkward ) for the duration..
The faces of people when i tell them i DO NOT constantly hang out at cool clubs/ pool parties/stretch limos/country club with my superhot superhorny modelgirlfriends looking superbored..
I tell them it's mostly
Tired, hungry, cold and lonely...
Priceless expressions on their disillusioned little faces... Blame Hollywood. Their misrepresentation of modeling is almost as bad as their misrepresentation of science.
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) for the duration..