Medical Diagnosis: Sleep Deprivation
July 14, 2009
Of all the events and opportunities available to us at this conference, you would think that sleeping would be the crowd favorite.
Up at 5:15 A.M. Then it’s speaker, food, group, food, sight-seeing, group, food!, speaker(s)…the process repeats. Today, obviously stated, was only one day, yet it felt like four rolled into one. It was awesome- don’t get me wrong. But after all this craziness and scheduling you would think us kids would just want to crash. Some of us do. Others of us, present party included, stay up adding to our blogs.
Why is this you ask?
Yes, one reason is that we feel compelled to document in some way our experiences here at GMU. Many probably do so to fill the college credit.
But more than anything, I find the reason for staying up is avoiding sleep. Yes I’m exhausted from the day’s activites. Yes I would much rather be off dreaming. But instead, I sit typing away whatever floats out of my head- somewhat-poised, somewhat-slouched over in my provided desk/rocking chair, which seems to be going through an identity crisis. All of this in order to avoid the rock of a bed which awaits me and its just as back-pain-inducing cohort the pillow.
I’ll twist, I’ll turn, I’ll fetal-position, but all to no avail. If tonight has similar results, who knows, perhaps the floor’s a better advocate.
Sleep well?,
Caroline