I got to sleep in today. It was, in a word, wonderful. The phone rang at 7:45 to let my mom know that her taxi had arrived, so I woke up then to answer the phone. I thought she had already left. But then I got to go back to bed for half an hour, until I had to get up to make my brother a sandwich for his lunch. It was so nice to lie in bed for that extra half hour, knowing that while I had to get up, I didn't have to go anywhere until 10:45. My bed was so nice and toasty. Somehow you just don't get that feeling on a Saturday morning. It's just the thrill of knowing that everyone else is on their way to work, and you're at home lazing about.

I had to go to the doctor to get a new sleeping pill, because the one I'm on now is not working. There's a really fine line between taking it too early and lying awake for hours staring at the ceiling and taking it too late and having to stumble up the stairs to bed like a drunk person. Because when it hits, it hits fast. I can be sitting at the computer and suddenly I can't keep my eyes open, the room looks funny, and I feel absolutely terrible. So we'll see how this new prescription works. While I was there, I mentioned that my ears have been plugging recently and she flushed them. That was horrible. It wasn't painful, just really annoying. It better have worked.

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