It's (An Appropriate Time to be Awake) Somewhere

I'm suffering from my first serious bout of insomnia. Went to bed a little after midnight, woke up at 2:30 completely unable to fall asleep. After two hours of tossing, I gave up, got up, and did some laundry. I really should be reading at this point--as long as I'm awake--but it just doesn't feel right. I also can't bring myself to have my morning coffee because I'm hopeful of a few more hours of sleep so I'm stuck in 5am purgatory. I'll admit my inability to sleep may have something to do with a small case of giddy but that's another story. In reality, I should just read my defense organizational management articles and that would probably do well enough to knock me out for a few hours. This is honestly just painful, and I can't imagine not being able to sleep involuntarily with any sort of regularity. Knowing you have to stay up all night, or til 4:30, to finish a paper you didn't write far enough in advance is one thing, but having the time to sleep and not being able to is complete torture. The laundry's done now. So maybe I'll give sleep another chance. At least it's Friday...