A.M. thoughts

Shit. I've never been a huge fan of sleeping pills, but this is getting ridiculous. Tonight marks two weeks since I've laid down in my bed only to either stare haphazardly at the ceiling or check my phone every 10 minutes. It's not my roommate Jake playing video games next door, I usually just turn on my fan to give a little ambient noise to drown out the sounds, but lately even that hasn't helped. Asian Village (which is what I like to refer to my apartment complex to, but I'll talk about that another time) is relatively quiet - most foreign exchange students aren't much of the partying type. I've never been the type to drug myself up just to fall asleep either - I mean who wants to feel that groggy in the morning? I'd rather not have to start getting a size larger starbucks to wake up in the morning, I'm already addicted enough as is. This guy is definitely not a morning person.

I guess the whole reason I decided to start this whole blog experiment was two-fold. First, I need something to do to pass my time while I can't sleep. Maybe writing down all of the thoughts swirling around in my oh-so enlightened college head at night will be better than trying to sort them out in between worrying about if my alarm is set, or contemplating what time I'm going to get out of class to go start drinking for FAC this weekend. Secondly, I need something to occupy my time other than John Mayer/The Fray/Coldplay/random YouTube videos while I attempt to fall asleep.

So yeah. This whole sleep thing. It's kind of a pain in the ass trying to decipher whats been keeping me up the last two weeks. It's not like I've come to any life-changing, morals-altering epiphany that I need to mull over lately, life has been pretty bland. College is college. Go to class, be late for work, but not late enough to get yelled at, hit up the grocery store to shop a lot less than I should, because let's face it - easy mac and milios subs are just easier, and it's definitely not girls... maybe a lack thereof, but lately I've come to realize that banging my head against a brick wall gives about the same amount of headaches that being interested in a girl does. Waste of my time? Maybe so, but it's like my Dad told me once, "Girls are only a waste of your time until you find a good one worth keeping."

We'll see where this blog thing goes. I don't expect anyone to find this, let alone read it. I haven't really decided if I want to post the link on my facebook or not. I'm always up for trying something new as long as it doesn't involve something detrimental to my health or eating anything with peas in it. Thank you Grandma Pol for making me loathe them. That's it for now I guess. The jury is still out on whether I'm going to go grab some nyquil.

Oh, another thing I wanted to do with these. Being a huge music fan, I'm going to post the song that is playing on my itunes or whatever when I finish the blog post. Tonight it's Peter Bradley Adams - Los Angeles

Maybe I'll go make a PB and J instead of the Nyquil.

Goodnight world,

Derek