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About me

Briefly me

My passion is ...

food. I like to cook and I love to eat.

I know too much about ...

Paris Hilton. I'd rather I didn't even know who she was.

My parents always told me ...

never talk to strangers. I didn't listen.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a novelist ... and a waitress. Kids are idiots.

Why I write ...

It's just what I do.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

a memoir of Iran/Sharona-era Monk/Swedish pop

My first job ...

paid badly.

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Featured article by AK MacKendrick

Health & Fitness > Mental Illness The connection between sleep deprivation and mental illness

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- Why not getting enough sleep could be driving you crazy.

We've all been there: "Just five minutes more" you plead with the alarm clock as you hit the snooze button and snuggle back under the covers. Then suddenly it's ten to eight - how did that happen? Still half-asleep, you grudgingly get out of bed to grumble your way through the day in a fug of tiredness and woe betide the workmate who asks you to make some extra photocopies or re-send a fax.

That lack of sleep makes you grumpy isn't news to anyone.

But a joint team of scientists from the University of California Berkeley and Harv...

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