The past 72 hours

The past 72 hours have been non-stop for me. I read an interesting article about sleep on Yahoo, basically I need to sleep more. But when you work four jobs, and are trying to write a novel, sleep is hard to come by.

It started on Friday, at my normal job for 9 hours. I had 15 minutes between to eat and then head to review a play. That would have been all fine, but the play was three hours long. Luckily, the theatre was incredibly close to my house that I was home quickly. I wanted to get most of my initial thoughts down though, so I ended up trying to sleep at 1 am.

Which, again, would have been fine had I not decided to volunteer the next morning. I volunteered to drive everyone downtown for Paws in the Park - a fundraiser for the local SPCA. I woke from my "nap" at 4 a.m. and volunteered until 11 a.m. The event was great, I love animals and helping people, so it was super fulfilling.

Again, would have been fine, but I also had to work from that point until 7 p.m.  Now I'm not one to just let my social life go to heck either. So I then stayed to watch the first Mardi Gras parade and Lifehouse concert. I again, did not leave Universal until almost 10 p.m.

My amazing boss, let me come in to work today an hour late, which essentially cured my sleep drunkenness. The effects of sleeplessness is almost the same as being drunk. I could not focus, everything was funny, and my writing skills were shot. Re-reading the review that I wrote on Friday, it looked like a Neanderthal wrote it. I'm definitely going to be working the piece a lot, but I wonder if I should actually sleep.
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Today is Chinese New Year and it's the Year of the Snake. The Snake is a water sign, Aquarius is a water sign. I declare this year to be great.