Friday, November 6, 2015

(20) I Can Tell I'm Running on a Sleep Debt

Friday is a day that I look forward to all week. I have no classes, few obligations, and lots of free time. It is the first (sometimes the only) day of my weekend.

Every Friday is pretty much the same, waking up at the regular time in order to make it to work at 8am. Work ends in the mid-morning so I head back to campus. In my room I plan out my day. Most of the time I don't have to be anywhere until the late afternoon. Once I realize I am free to do as I please I hear it... from across the room it calls to me. My bed! Like a moth to a light I can't help but gravitate in its direction. I fight the though, but on Friday my bed always wins, but only for 15 minutes. And then another 30 minutes, just another 15 minutes and that's it. My plan for a quick power nap turns into a two hour slumber!

By the end of the week I just can't resist the urge to catch up on sleep. Rather than continue to fight my urges, I think in the future I should just plan on a two hour nap so that I can get a full cycle in and make up some of the time that I have lost throughout the week. So next week I am going to plan on using Friday as a recharge day so that I am sharp for work at Reagor-Dykes on Saturday!

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