Burning the midnight oil -- but not on purpose...

STUDIO 48 – Do you ever have one of those nights when you just can’t sleep? You try and try but nothing seems to help. As I write, it is 5:04 AM. I have not slept a single wink so far this night.
I think this problem is due to many factors. For one, I might have developed a minor addiction to NyQuil. I had a nasty head cold earlier in the week and took a stout dose of the amazing potion every night in order to ensure that I got as much sleep as possible under the circumstances. It’s kinda ironic that I took the green stuff (because Kroger was out of the cherry flavor) to help me sleep and it is the very thing that is keeping me from sleeping now.
The second thing hindering me from slumber is just the fact that I have a lot on my mind right now. Finals are less than two weeks away. I’ve been working on papers all week and tonight was the first chance I’ve had since Thanksgiving to do nothing for a few minutes. I think it freaked my body out a little bit. I went out to eat at Mexicali with Kev1n, Le0n, Rob1n & H@yley. Boy, did I need a night out! We all vented a little bit about obscure things and it was just what I needed.
I got home around 11:30 and got completely prepared for an amazing night of sleep. I watched Letterman with Lobert Rundy, K-diddle and Ru$ty. Then, I retired to my room to watch Conan as I drifted off to sleep. But the sleep never came. Conan ended and I still was still wide awake. My mind couldn’t settle down. I was thinking about everything from Redc0ats, the SEC Championship, girls (past, present and future), spiritual stuff, and life in general. It is funny how sometimes you think about a given scenario, or dream about a given scenario so much and so often, that the line between that dream and reality becomes skewed. You can no longer tell what is real and what your mind just made up out of the blue. It is really weird and out there, but kinda cool at the same time. For my own sanity, I’m going to count it as creativity and not craziness. We’ll call it a blessing rather than a curse.
I gave up on getting to sleep about 4:30 AM and got up to take a shower. I am now planning to get ahead on some reading so as not to count all this time as a complete waste. I know that I will be so dog (or Dawg) tired tomorrow night that even a slight addiction to NyQuil won’t keep me from sleep. I wish that this ‘not being able to sleep’ thing had happened earlier this week when I had tons to do. Tonight was supposed to be a full night of solid rest. Oh, well...