Lack of Sleep

Last night I really don't know how much I slept…in fact I don't know if I had any moment of good sleep last night. My schedule is so busy that I am forced to stay up late to finish my homework. Yesterday I spent all of my breaks in the computer lab working on homework so I wouldn't have to stay up to some ridiculous hour. However my plan failed. Yesterday my busy schedule consisted of going to work from 2:30- 4:30. After work I had exactly 1 hour to eat my dinner and do some of my US reading before my tennis practice that was from 5:30 to 7:30 I got home at about 7:45 and by the time I settled down to start my seminar paper it was already 8:00. I worked on my paper for about 2 hours until I crashed out in front of my laptop. I was so exhausted from my earlier workout that I unconsciously fell into a deep sleep. It was not until 1:00 in the morning when I woke up and realized that I had fallen asleep. The first thing I said was…I'm screwed! All I had done was an intro, a conclusion, and about half of my first supporting paragraph. I was so tired I needed some sort of boost to wake me up. I took a shower, brushed my teeth, and cleaned up. After that I sat down on my bed with my lap top and furiously typed my essay. I was so wrapped up in trying to interpret the documents and searching for a strong argument I did not look back up at the clock until it was 2:30. Yeah… I didn't realize how late it was…or maybe I should say early. I thought to myself, "in 3 hours I am going to have to wake up again." I was running on so much adrenaline that I could not bring myself to stop. I then picked up my Japanese book and did my workbook. When the clock hit 3:00 I realized that it would be really dumb to pull an all nighter so I threw my textbooks on the ground, flicked off the lights, and climbed into my bed. I tried to force myself to go to sleep but some how I could not…my mind kept drifting to all the things I had to do. I lay in my bed awake for what seemed like forever until I finally drifted into one of those half sleeps. My mind was so preoccupied with school that I dreamed that I was talking my math test again and I just had one more to answer and some how I couldn't answer it. When I woke up from my restless sleep it was already time to wake up and get ready to go to school. Now looking back on my dream I think it is pretty sad how high school students like myself are always bombarded with so much school work and stress that it even haunts us in our dreams. Sometimes I think this is an unhealthy life to live… but I would not have it any other way. I feel I am who I am because of all the activities I do. If I were not doing all this activity I would not be me. The funny thing is I thought I would be really tired, but actually I'm not. I'm sitting in front of this computer typing this blog post and I am actually quite awake. Who knows, maybe this will bite me from behind later on today in U.S history at 2:30 when we discuss the paper I slaved over last night. There never seems to be enough hours in the day. (Hey I just realized that this post is similar to my "hidden talent" essay…except last night I didn't' t have to fake sleep)