1) Procrastinate for weeks on reading assignments and a major paper, as well as a homework assignment.

2) Stay up all night studying for a midterm, writing that paper and doing that homework assignment, all in the same evening.

3) Worry over the impending exam, in order to get somewhat restless sleep.

4) Make sure to get no more than 2.5 hours of (restless) sleep before taking midterm the next morning.

5) Take midterm and feel good about it.

6) Turn in paper and homework assignment and feel only okay about it.

7) Go home and do laundry, because you procrastinated on that, too.

8) Fold laundry and put it in suitcase for your trip that night.

9) Take a red eye flight to Atlanta, Georgia, en route to upstate New York.

10) On both flights, get very restless plane-sleep, making sure to wake up every 20 minutes or so to discover odd pains in your neck, or that you've been sleeping with your mouth gaping so wide, trucks could park in there.

11) Feel thankful that airplane air conditioning shot air into your mouth as you left it wide open while asleep, preventing any embarrassing drooling adventures.

12) Get to New York and don't sleep on the shuttle taking you to your destination.

13) Once you arrive at destination, become so enamoured with a 2 month old baby that you don't feel like going to sleep until well after she's gone to bed for the night (and after writing a dorky list entry for your website!).

Follow these easy tasks, and soon you will see, 11pm feels like exactly the right time to go to bed (never mind that it's 8pm back home!).

Good-night!