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so I figured out why my apartment - or my bedroom, rather - has been so dry...

previously - I have been leaving the master bathroom door open - and there is (obviously) a vent for the climate control... well - there is also one in my bedroom...

given that the bathroom essentially is nothing but tile and dry wall, all of that extra heat gets pumped into my room - creating an arid environment.

how fun.

so the past few nights - quite by accident - I have been sleeping with the bathroom door completely closed.

there has been a noticeable decrease in my nightly discomfort.

I still, however annoyingly, wake up almost precisely at 5:03 am every morning, no matter what time I fall asleep.

there is no logical reason, as I have in no way conditioned my biological clock to even consider getting up at that time.

given that 5am will typically be around 4 hours of sleep, I blame it on circadian rhythm and my mind, as it probably knows that a full additional four hours would be impossible, given the time I need to arrive at the office.

this is disheartening, as this morning (or perhaps yesterday morning) headlines news told me that there is no way to catch up on your sleep if you haven't slept...

I haven't done the math, but I once read that if you sleep less than eight hours a day, you lose so many years off the end of your life. My thinking is that if the number of extra years you get at the end of you life is about the same as the extra hours of sleep you get - I figure it's a wash - I mean, you can't really do much while you're sleeping, so why bother with the extra years...

of course - this is strictly speaking from an efficiency standpoint and not by an emotional standpoint - I would of course cherish those extra years with my family and friends (assuming I still had them)

then again, I'm sure these studies are done via surveys of a sampling of people - which could easily be skewed towards a specfic demographic, so who really knows?

I mean - what would a true sampling be for a country whose geographic regions are so diverse and dispersed?

national averages don't mean anything to me.

only because I've been above average... :-P

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and I don't mean that in an Eddie Haskell kind of way...