Friday, August 20, 2004

Why I drink strong coffee. An essay.





Sleep is an underrated commodity. But who wants to go sleep when there's always something more interesting to do? After a couple of weeks though... I'm here to tell you, it really catches up to a person.

I've spent hours learning the delicate art of design (and barely mastered the basics of html, mind you), chatted with friends and relatives until all hours and had countless midnight snacks (good thing I have a great metabolism, ain't it?).

It's interesting that you can be too tired to move, but so bored you can't possibly imagine sleep. And the boredom usually wins out. Or just plain curiosity. There always seems to be some ridiculous reason I just have to stay up a minute or five longer. Which always turns into an hour or three.

Then there are those nights I'm too tired or bored to care. So I think, "I'm going to be a good girl tonight and go to bed early. Won't it be great to get a whole eight or nine hours of sleep in one night??" Right....

It has never failed at those lovely extra-sleep-promised nights that I am awakened in the wee hours... Usually by Baby-dactyl, but occasionally by the neighbors who drink until early morning and are either fighting or having ungodly-sounding sex in their hottub.

The baby's cries aren't so bad. If she has her bottle and Mommy's voice, she'll go back to sleep - after I'm fully awake and can no longer lull myself back to sleep.

The neighbors are another story...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Shanna... I exactly know what you mean...

Many times I'm dead tired, Something always catches my interest; whether is something I can learn, news items that trigger something else or friends online; and next thing I know is like 4:00am...

And I have to get up at 6:00am.

The next day I'm whining, drinking two 20oz cups of coffeee to get me going and saying I will go to bed early when I get home...

Then come home and do it all over again...

Anything will beat going to bed... lol

As a matter of fact... Tonigh is a perfect example... as you can tell by the time stamp on this post. ;)