I am presently at a Starbucks in Rowlett. I woke up at 4:30 AM this morning, woke up in Tyler and drove 2 hours to get back to Garland. 30 minutes of those 2 hours being lost and going back and forth between 3 sets of streets.
Now, I am snotty nosed, sitting at Starbucks, running off of 3 hours of sleep drinking my cup of awake tea, which is running out (which means "I" am running out) prepping for the work day. A blog might as well have been to do today so here we are! And I thought to myself, how much sleep am I getting? How much sleep do I REALLY need? Because if I could, I'd run off less, but I feel that I can't. Let's find out:
Here's a pretty good link actually. The first one I found on Google after searching "How Much adults sleep" (Just as a testament to my tiredness, I was about to type the word "searching" phonetically instead of 'correctly'--"surching").
Looks like I should be getting about 7-9,which on average is what I get. But sometimes it feels like too much, and other times like too little. Like, I never want to get up. I wonder if that just stays with you the rest of your life though.
I thought it was interesting that it suggests sleeping after a regular "relaxing bedtime routine". Interesting.
It's interesting to me because I felt out of whack the past few weeks because I bought a new video game--World of Warcraft (WoW). I know, I know. It's juvenille. But I'm a boy. Well. A man-boy. And boys will be boys. Right? I think all the gentlemen out there (and their ladies as well) can testify that we just like toys.
Well anyways, this past week or so, my pre-bed routine changed. I usually read my Bible and sit on my bed and read my "Dance Bible" and just contemplate things before I turn out the lights. Well, lately, it's been "Video Game Fest 2009" in the living room. I'll sit in the living room and play WoW until late in the night. And maybe that's why I feel a little bit funny and just ... unbalanced.
And I don't like imbalance. If there's one thing I've learned is a key value of mine, it's balance. Strange, I know.
Well. Time to go back to the usual "pre-bed" routine. Maybe I'll feel better. Well, and maybe after I get the remaing 4 hours of sleep I'm missing today.
john.
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