For Marie - It is “lie” in bed, not a “lay” in bed. English is not my first language, and I once got a bad grade on an English assignment because - excuse my French, I fucked up between “lie” and “lay,” only to realize, two years later, that hardly any American knows the difference between the two.

Remember that Proust wrote some of the best prose ever on sleep (not that I am trying to push my native country’s literature on anyone…)

Backpacking Dad - You made my day!

I am one who never suffered from insomnia until menopause hit me. Yikes!

Neil - I felt for you when I read yesterday’s entry. Hope you’re OK.

We sleep for 1/3 of our lives.

That’s the ideal that we tell ourselves and bed salesmen use it a lot, but in reality, I figure we really only sleep about 1/34 of our lives.

Good sleep RULES! Sweet dreams.

Um.

No, wait. I meant “Beer OR Tylenol PM OR Nyquil OR Vicodin”

The beer-sleep means I wake with a hangover, the Nyquil-sleep is not much better. The Tylenol-sleep is awesome and smooth. And the Vicodin dreams are just the best things in the world.

But with a baby, I can’t have any of these sleeps. Instead I get “constantly waking up too early” sleep.