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Hi. This is Hisao Nakai. Sorry I missed your call - please leave a message.

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Feel free, OK? I'll admit, I'm looking forward to meeting the little fellow.

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You can come visit him just for fun, if you'd like!

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Yeah, I would like that - I wouldn't want to disturb him if he's sleeping or anything though.

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He's kind of hard to disturb... Even when I drop things, he stays fast asleep.

[She knows this from experience!]

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Being a heavy sleeper must be nice. I wake up at just about every little noise some nights. I envy him.

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Ah... you do?

[That's a little worrying...! Sleep is important.]

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Unfortunately, yeah. My medication messes with my sleeping patterns so it can be hard to get to sleep and hard to stay asleep. But that's OK! It's something I'm almost used to by now and there's really no avoiding it.

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It messes with them? But... how?

[She's still not super clear on all this medical stuff. Really, a lot of the effects of medicine in general went over her head; the most she understood was "if you see this symptom, this is a safe drug to give in this amount."]

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Oh, it's called a Side Effect. I take a lot of medications and while they help me, some of them also do things besides what I take them for. A few of them make it hard to sleep. That's all. There's really no safe way for me to get around it so I deal with it alright, and make sure to sleep well when I can.

[He smiled reassuringly - he didn't want her worrying over it, after all.]

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[Hey Hisao, guess what Hibiki is doing right now!]

...And there's no other alternative?

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[...Aw Hibiki no. Don't do that, Hibiki. It will give you wrinkles.]

Unfortunately not. But hey! Like I said, it's a side effect of the medication that keeps me healthy otherwise so there's really not too much to complain about. If I can't sleep once in a while, that's still better than having heart problems. Just means I can read a few more books.

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Ah... so you read lots of books then instead?

[Relaxing a little. That doesn't sound as bad.]

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Yeah. I try to read for maybe a half hour and then I turn off the lights and try to sleep. If it doesn't work, I turn them on and read for another half hour. Usually that works after a while.

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And you never fall asleep with the light on, either?

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Not usually - I generally find it much easier to sleep when it's dark. I've dropped off to sleep with the lights on a few times but hardly ever, and I don't usually stay asleep for long if the light is on.

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Oh... Usually when I read at night, I fall asleep with the light still on.

[Embarrassing!]

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Do you manage to sleep right through that way? Or do you wake up a little later like 'Wait, what? Oh no the light' and turn it off before going back to sleep?

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I usually wake up... But part of it's because I'm at my desk, so I have to move to my bed instead.

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Oh! Well, that's pretty understandable, yeah. I'm usually laying down in bed reading if I drift off. It's relaxing that way.

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It usually just happens to me when I'm trying to study... When it comes to normal sleep, I don't usually have any problems.

[With all the activity she gets up to during the day, she's out by 10PM at the very, very latest.]

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[That is an appropriate bed time for little children. XD]

Oh, I see. You work very hard a lot of the time, it's not surprising your body tries to make you rest a little more when it finds itself sitting down.

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I thought I was getting enough rest already though... Maybe I should start going to sleep earlier?