Sleep With 'Em First!

Ed Williams

Well, as I sit here writing this, it’s very quiet. The air is cool and the house is dark, the only light emanating from within being the light from my computer. It’s so quiet here, in fact, that I can hear the rhythm from my fingertips as they dance across this keyboard. Sounds like the perfect writer’s scenario, doesn’t it? The problem is that it isn’t, in fact, this whole situation blows. It happens to be 6 am on a Saturday morning and I’m sitting here wide awake!How does this happen? How can I be so tired each Monday through Friday morning when I must get up, yet voluntarily wake up early on Saturday? Each workday, as I struggle to get out of bed, my mind consoles me by telling me the following,“It’s okay, just push yourself until Saturday and then you can sleep in and make up for all the time you lost during the week.”What a lie! It never works out that way, instead, I spend a bleary-eyed Saturday most weeks on account of my own brain.

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