The eternal struggle between work and sleep

Who in his right mind would rather work than sleep? We see it everywhere we go: the irresistible spring-pocketed mattresses that promise us the best night's sleep ever, and the advertisement on radio for King Koil that goes *poingggg. Even scientists agree (I read this in a book somewhere) that an adult needs 8 hours of sleep every night to function properly.

Fact is I'm guessing these scientists don't even sleep more than 4 hours a night, how else would they come up with such studies?

I am now a firm believer of working at night and into the wee hours of the morning. Not so much by personal preference, but more so by the busy nature of my schoolwork and, of course, that nasty habit of playing computer games that irk parents so.

There's just something about the night air that makes it so much easier to sit in front of a computer and churn out work that would seem so impossible to perform when the sun is up and shining. Perhaps it's the endless distraction that the day provides, whether it's people walking around the house or the television set being on. I mean let's face it, television programming at night just sucks, unless there's Champion's league football to watch at 2.30am.

Therein lies the problem: If I enjoy working at night, and have to go to school early in the morning only to finish late at night, then when do I sleep?

So much for the spring pocketed mattresses if I'm not going to spend any time enjoying it. I made an executive decision about my life and downgraded my bed to a cheap tatami mat, a traditional straw Japanese mat meant for sleeping. As pitiful as it sounds, only when I do have the time to sleep do I even bother to unfurl the rarely used tatami mat and rest my tortured frame on it.

I guess I'm still young and I won't really suffer the consequences of my nocturnal behaviour as yet. Give it a few years and I'll become an owl, without the good eyesight.

::Yusuf::
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