Sleep

You know that thing where you go to bed and close you eyes and then hours later you open them and get out of your bed? Yeah, sleep. I don't get enough of it. It may be my fault, but I really try my best to find as much as I can and never let go. Unfortunately, it isn't easy to find when you plan on working 8 hours with a 2 hour commute ad still want some free time and it isn't easy to hold on to when you have someone living with you who will yell at you even though he gets into the work transportation vehicle after you do. He always says it's my fault when we leave at 8:47 rather than 8:45, but do I say anything when he starts his shower at 8:32? The answer to that question is yes, but I don't say any of it to him. I leave the complaining for elsewhere.

Regardless, summer is a time for teenagers to catch up on all the sleep they lost over the school year. Now I can't do that and I've been walking around like a zombie day in and day out. I need some relaxation time, which is never gonna happen on my current schedule. As it currently is, I get maybe 6 hours on a weeknight and 8 each night of the weekend. 8 hours is not enough to bring my schedule back up to speed.

This is why I dislike having a summer job. It isn't that I hate money and it isn't that I dislike work. I just feel behind on my sleep. The problem is that I wouldn't catch up on sleep if given a week off. I would catch up on tv shows and games. Perhaps sleep too, but it would be sleep from 3:00 until 14:00 rather than from 22:00 until 9:00. That's one of the biggest problems. In order to sleep well, I would have to go to sleep an hour or 2 after I arrive home from work. That would mean I would spend all my time doing nothing but sleeping and working. Is that how a man should live? I say no! I say a man should work 8 hours including commute. This would leave a person with 8 hours to sleep and 8 hours to do anything he or she pleases every single day. If you split the day into thirds this evenly, then you would never have too much of anything, because you would have the same amount of everything.

Imagine what you could do with 8 hours of free time. You could watch TV for 2 hours, play games for 2 hours, and still have 4 hours for any other hobbies you like. You could use some of that free time for sleeping if you missed any the night before. The whole day would be yours to do with what you see fit.

The real problem here is that I wake up for getting to work on time at 8:00 and I don't get home until 19:00. That's almost half the day. It is half the day when the metro is acting up. That means I have some 5 hours of free time if I don't want to miss sleep. I'm trying to steal back my free time, but since I can't take it from my work or boss, I end up taking it from my sleep. Instead of having 8 hours of sleep I general have 5, which gives me my usual 8 hours of free time. However, this means the only person I am punishing is myself. Though really, what teenager would act differently, given the same situation?

I suppose, I should be getting to sleep earlier. That is not what I want to do. I want to have fun, sleep, and enjoy my summer. Money helps, but it does not make my life tons of better.

Also, UPDATE: On Tomato Mozzarella
I bought a Tomato Mozzarella from the Bagel Bakery today. They call it a Howard Beach. It was incredibly delicious. It might even rival Santucci's sandwiches. The were still a few key differences though. The sandwich was on French Ciabatta bread instead of a Kaiser roll, there was pesto and vinaigrette in place of the olive oil, salt, and pepper, and they put roasted red bell peppers on it. The sandwich still had its regulatory thick slices of mozzarella and sweet tomatoes, but the whole feel was different. It seemed drippy, because of the sauces, instead of solid like the Santucci's sandwich. Also, the size and shape of the bread made in less holdable, though slightly more crunchy, which I like. I think they both stand in the ranks of greatest sandwich ever made, and one cannot be placed above the other. I guess it really all comes down to whether or not you like salt, olive oil, red peppers, or some of the best creamy pesto I have ever tasted.