Becoming nocturnal...and other things

A few late ISD nights have turned me into a creature of the night. I stayed awake for near 24 hours, slept about 5-6 hours during the day, and looks like I'm staying up all night again (it's 4:50a and we are leaving for breakfast in one hour, before we present). And the crazy thing is that I'm awake. Yes, maybe a little sleepy and definitely lacking proper cognitive functioning, but overall, I feel alright.

I fear that tomorrow I will want to sleep during the day and stay up all night to get my homework done. So, in order to get my body out of this cycle (which it got into quickly), I plan to take maybe an hour nap in the day, stay awake and do homework, then go to bed around 10pm. Hopefully this works.

Now, onto other things. Since I'm not sleepy, I decided to check my friends' away messages. 6 of the 27 on have no away message up- no fun! 6 have some sort of message about being asleep. 5 have some general "away" message. 6 range from "grr... >:O" to "I'm performing a science experiment...Can I write an 8-10 page research paper in one night? We'll find out...ready...GO!!!"

And 4 have a some sort of quote. There's Hebrews 12:11, a Walt Whitman quote, a Steven Curtis Chapman song...and the last few lines of this poem.

In looking for it online, I saw it on many inspirational and "healing for women" sites. I'm not sure what I think about the whole poem, but I must say I like the lines that my friend selected for her away message.

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong, and you really do have worth. And you learn... and you learn with every goodbye... you learn...

That's where I am in life. I don't need someone to bring me flowers- I know that God has already planted His own flowers in the garden of my soul. Cheesy, I know, but it is 5:15 in the morning...