Essential as a policy or essential as a campaigning slogan?
That's been on my list for awhile, hoping to get around to it soon.
Couldn't get past the pop-ups in the article, but...I'm about 1/5th of the way through Mary McAuliffe's Dawn of the Belle Epoque, a history of the political, social, and cultural upheavel and efforts to rebuild Paris after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. It's very readable, more like a vibes-based, "this is what a day in the life of 1870s Paris was like" rather than a deep scholarly examination of the issues.
She's got a second volume, Twilight of the Belle Epoque that continues the story from around 1900 into the beginning of WWI.
Sounds like a bummer. Is that a clinical diagnosis?
Yeah, in fact that is one of the main reasons I like sleep (the other reason is that sometimes in dreams I get to be a pirate or fight ninjas and shit).
It you're waking up after any amount of time feeling clamny, sick, or like you've just been drugged, I'm gonna say that's not normal and you should get it checked out by a medical professional.
That does not sound like my experience with sleeping.