sleep v. substance

from friday to sunday, i slept more than i have in any three-day block for at least a year, if not significantly longer. six hours, nine hours, and eight hours. considering that i've averaged about four-and-a-half over the last month, you could argue it was just what i needed to pay off my sleep debt.

nope.

as i sat in front of the computer today trying to finish some important updates to our website, i found my eyelids closing despite my stern desire for them to stay open. it was the kind of inadvertent dozing-off that ends with a violent bounce of the chin off of the chest, only to be greeted by a string of 127 f's strewn across the document you were editing.

so what was it that caused my narcolepsy despite my wealth of rest over the weekend? perhaps the lack of coffee.

on my sunday trip to andronico's i picked a nice medium blend coffee that i could take to work and enjoy while checking the emails that had accrued over the weekend (i was a bad worker). but because my mind was focused on other things, the coffee was left behind. now many a day, i've come to work after too much drinking and not enough sleep. a cup of coffee -- occasionally two -- fixes that. but the parallel doesn't hold up nearly as well -- plenty of sleep and not an ounce of liquor (on sunday). i might as well have been a wino who'd found $20 on the sidewalk. that's how productive i am o'natural.