View From the Bushes

Here was my sleep schedule for the weekend: It started with me staying up until 5 am Saturday morning, and I slept till only 7 am. I took a nap in the afternoon of about two hours, but then was up till 7 am Sunday morning. I slept until around 12:30 and then woke up to go to church (where ironically enough, I had to teach a lesson partially about the need for sleep). I lasted until 7 pm Sunday night before going back to bed. I hoped to sleep until the next morning, but ended up waking up at midnight. That's when I realized that my sleep schedule was completely screwed.

After waking up yesterday at about midnight, I slept for an hour in the morning and then for two hours between about 6 pm and 8 pm. When I went to bed at 6 I intended to go to bed for the night, but that was not in the cards. I tried a couple more times to go back to sleep, but it wasn't until around 1:30 am that I finally was able to go to sleep. 7:30 (the drop-dead time for me to be able to make it to work on time) came far too early.

My friend Ed asked why they could pay you for plasma, but not for whole blood. Apparently they worry if they pay people for blood that they will start to lie about whether they have AIDS and stuff like that. But apparently because of the "simpler" nature of plasma they're able to heat sterilize it which elimates that risk... PBS has a on the shady practice of plasma donation.

So very, very tired
Ross