Insomniac

It's nights like these that come all too often for me - I'm sleepy, I'm tired, yet I lay in bed for hours, unable to sleep. I eventually turn the lights back on, pick up a book, check my blogs, or just watch late-night movies. Without knowing it, I'll glance up at the clock and it's already six in the morning the next day.

I've been like this for more than a decade now, and frankly, it sucks.

And no, it's not the coffee, since I've only been seriously drinking for two years (if anything, it even makes me sleepy).

My dad and most of the doctors I've talked to have advised against sleeping pills, arguing that they can be habit-forming (in other words, addicting). I think it's time to seriously reconsider. It's been more than 10 freakin' years, after all. And frankly, I'd rather be addicted-but-asleep rather than clean-but-up-all-night.