Up too late...(life)

Typically, I am a champion sleeper. Well, in the past, I have been a champion sleeper. I have a true appreciation for all the goodness eight hours of sleep can bring to a person's life. I love the feeling you get when you wake up after you hit the sweet spot in your sleep cycle. But, all of this has changed in recent years.

During my first year of teaching, for reasons I don't want to admit to here, I had to give up sleep. Well, I would give up sleep for a while and then sometimes go to bed by 8:45 due to exhaustion. I created these situations where waking up at 4:00 a.m. was the only way to do everything I had to do more times than I care to remember. Now, in the second year of my lifestyle change, it is the late nights I get to see regularly. I'm regularly amazed that I am awake at such-and-such and hour.

At this moment, it is almost last year's wake up time and I am not sleeping. I should be having dreams I will not remember or doing some fancy sleep dance. But, I'm awake...updating my iPod. So, I guess all is not lost.