Four Hours of Sleep, Three Minutes of Sleep Deprivation

Part one of my series "How We Sleep" aired last night. I had to come back to work to introduce the piece "live." That is, I didn't tape what I said at the very beginning of the story or the end. The piece was three minutes long, but coming in at 10:00p.m. (actually the news started at 10:18p.m. because of the President's speech) meant I only got four hours of sleep before my dreaded 3:00a.m. alarm! Talk about sleep deprived! I was a bit sluggish this morning, but I brought a frappaccunio to help me wake up. Part two of the story airs tonight and I'll do this all over again. Fun! It's amazing how many of us cheat sleep. We shouldn't do it, but so many of us do. And in all honesty it wasn't just coming back in to work at 10:00p.m. that made me miss sleep- once I got home (at 10:55 p.m.) I had to finish watching a certain series finale on another network- forever to remain nameless. Since it was three episodes, I watched the first two and a half and taped the last 30 minutes of the third one. I couldn't go to bed without knowing what happened!