OMGZ!! Less sleep=more colds????

Really? You needed to publish an article about this?

From the NY Times:

People who got less than seven hours of sleep a night were almost three times more likely than those who slept eight hours or more to get sick after exposure to a cold virus, a new study has found.

Adults who spent a lot of time in bed tossing and turning were even more vulnerable, the researchers reported.

“The poorer your sleep, the worse off you are,” said Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and first author of the study, which was published on Monday in The Archives of Internal Medicine. “That was the surprise.”

So my lack of sleep + fidgety-ness means that I shall get a cold.

And yes, I toss and turn ALL FREAKING NIGHT. The kids I have to share with at Model UN hate it. And it's a pain, because it means that more often than not, I wake up two minutes before my alarm goes off because I've kicked off my blankets.

But look:

Unfortunately, [some professor] said, people don’t have much control over their sleep efficiency.

That's superhelpful. Thanks. I'm more likely to get sick than someone who sleeps just as much as me, but I can do NOTHING about it. Wonderful.

Waiting for something that never comes

Have you ever had that feeling like you know something big is about to happen? And then, you go over what you expect to happen over the next few days and you realize that nothing at all of note is going to occur? And, today, I've got that feeling of anticipation. There are a couple of things that could be happening. First, the freshmen are all away for two days. Maybe I'm expecting something good to come of that. Nothing has so far, unless you count the bus being late because of the freshman taking forever getting their luggage on and off.

And I don't think that anything very exciting will happen within the next few days, unless you count us playing my town in tennis this afternoon. That's just nerve-wracking, though, not exciting. Hopefully we'll win, even though our freshamn first singles player is missing. I'm playing third singles, assuming I'm no longer sick. Last night I was feeling pretty bad, but I think it was just a combination of dehydration and exhaustion. I'm almost feeling normal now.

I began this blog entry on Wednesday, then came back to it today. I've begun to realize that blog entries are better is written in one sitting. This entry is my proof of that.