Waiting for Hypnos!

Am here to tell you about last night.
So, then after all the sledding and walking knee-deep in snow, I was exhausted. Believe it or not but by 10pm I was ready to hit the bed. But still, saying bye to friends online isn't a hurried job- especially when you are usually up till after midnight otherwise, with Neha reminding me to sleep sometimes. I think Gale did that too once, not that she ever sleeps before 2am! What do you do? Anyways, so finally crept into the bed just as it was getting around 11 pm. Waiting for sleep to blissfully take over. But this was one of those super irritating nights when all you want to do is sleep but when you are waiting for it to come on you it decides to play that highly insensitive game of playing hard to get, while you are in half a mind to get up and continue with doing something interesting- for eg surfing the net. But yet your limbs refuse to oblige and you wait there praying to Hypnos while shifting in bed looking for the most comfortable position.

Suddeny, i'm awake. 6am already? Oh damn, why can there not be even a little light in the sky? But morning already? Hey i'm in the same postion that I was in when I fell asleep, at least the last I can remember before sleep mercifully descended. Is that my landlady awake? What is she doing? Awake before me? I can hear a cat. And she's calling the cat, "Paille". It must be morning. Now I dare not fall asleep. The alarm will go off any moment. What's on the roof? Paille (my landlady's cat) Why is he here? Why can he not jump on the roof of her bedroom? Should I open the door and let him in? And that incessant meowing. After what seems like ages but must have actually been not more than 3mins, she opened the door for the cat!

I'm lying awake, why is the alarm not ringing? I'm sure it is 6am. Let me see. I unlock my cell. What amazing relief! It's only 1:06am. Yippee! I can sleep peacefully! And i drift away.

Wide awake! Why is this happening, not again. I have to sleep, i have a whole day of work tomorrow. I image the dark circles growing under my eyes. Sleep, why are you so elusive? It's only natural to sleep, don't act so pricey. Just come and drown me in your portion. Maybe tomorrow I wont call on you so early. But let go now, just wave those poopies over my eyes and let me relax in your realm.

And somehow throughout the night I drift in and out of the long tunnels of sleep. Wake up in the morning as soon as the first note of the alarm hits. Hoping that my energetic jump will help me through the day.

Throught the 3 continuous lectures, drift between the conscious and sub- conscious. I've had moments where i've blanked out.

And now before I go for my next and luckily last lecture for the day, I'm downing, now this my third mug of coffee. Hoping it will as always help me get through. All I have to survive is one more class.