Counting the Minutes

It's after 11:30pm on a school night.  In college, this would have been just the beginning of the evening.  At this time a few years ago, I would have been feverishly writing a last-minute paper while sipping Diet Dr. Pepper.  Now, well into my second year of teaching, I go to bed with the senior citizens of the world in hopes of staying one step ahead of my students the following day.  Much my dismay this evening, I cannot sleep.  In the past couple hours I've tried some traditional and not-so traditional methods--

*Listened to music

*Pondered getting a sub tomorrow

*Listened to nothing

*Thought about boys with cute smiles

*Text messaged someone in hopes of getting the thought off my internal to do list

*Bought books on Amazon (also on my to do list)

*Laid down on the bathroom floor (not feeling the best on top of the sleeplessness)

*Apologized for less-than-ideal behavior in a cheesy facebook message (yes, I also think that is really not the place to things like that, but I have my reasons)

*Ate a couple Tums (they actually don't match my symptoms but I didn't know what else to take)

*Perused favorite blogs (nearly cried reading Hillary's - I adore her!)

Most of the above usually are not helpful in aiding sleeplessness, but when hours have passed since you tried to go to sleep, you get pretty bored and borderline desperate.  "Maybe, just maybe if I stare at a computer screen in the dark my eyes will get even more...."  None of it's worked, but in reading a few blogs, I, at least, got to reflect on how much I love the people in my life...the people who listen to me and care enough to ask questions and care about what the answers are.  

Good night.  Sweet dreams.  Don't worry about the bugs.  I fumigated the underneath the bed this morning!