When you’re not a person who goes early to bed easily – and your boss schedules you at 4 a.m. on thr busiest shopping day of the year, you have to make some choices!

This time I chose “Just power through it.”

Did I try getting to sleep early? Nope! I abstained from having any alcoholic drinks or talking any sleep aids. I turned off the lights a bit before midnight, and made like I was going to sleep. It was all a ruse… My hopelessly insomniac brain tried several tricks to knock itself to sleep, including listing countries by letter and by continent and going through the whole alphabet except W, and X, of course).

I think I might have gotten a couple of hours of something “resembling” sleep by the time I roused my sorry ass from its state resembling slumber.

If it doesn’t seem like I’m making much sense, it’s because I’ve BEEN AWAKE FOR *ALMOST* THE PAST 24 HOURS!

I think this is great practice if I want to join a doomsday cult!