Sleep-deprived

New sleep research is disillusioning for some of us early risers, overconfident that we need no more than six hours in dreamland per night. There are such people, but they're far rarer than we think. "So almost all people who claim they only need six hours' sleep are kidding themselves." But school's starting again. I'm going to keep on kidding myself. A necessary illusion, especially now that I have a new toy.

Forgetfulness

Billy Collins hits too close to home here, but I'm laughing anyway.

(Studies show, by the way, that caffeine is not the miracle fix for this after all... but supplemental sleep may be. Billy and I don't want to hear it, we'd rather buzz around on espresso.)