Sleep

Bart: Daly City fog

Yesterday I realized I have little patience for elevator music. Especially when I am tired and need to sit for an hour trying to keep my eyes from closing and head from dropping while in the middle of a long performance. When I say middle I mean front and center of the audience, right smack dab in the middle. I have also come to explain and exclaim something else to the world! I NEED LOTS OF SLEEP! I need it. I just don't like it; I need it. 8.5 hrs to be exact. When I don't get that amount of sleep I am not a happy person. My whole body exudes hatred and stress. My need for sleep is not lazy; it's real science. Let me explain...your body needs sleep in order to go through the stages of sleep. In each stage of sleep certain chemicals like cortisol (stress/ anxiety) are monitored for regulated stress in your day life. If by chance you miss sleep your body will not maintain proper cortisol levels. Also, if you are overweight you need sleep. Therefore I need sleep. During slow wave sleep, stages 3 and 4 (the stages where I sleep walk, which is a separate issue), the body is able to keep ghrelin and leptin (hunger and hunger control) levels maintained. For more information please follow this link to the Stanford Sleep Clinic: http://med.stanford.edu/school/psychiatry/coe/ . So if you happen to be around me and and I don't want to go out for the night it probably means 1. I'm tired and 2. go by yourself and stop blaming me for your inability to be happy without me.

With that said I had only 4 hours of sleep Friday night. Friday night I worked at a local winery, Red Feather (http://www.redfeatherwinery.com/Red_Feather_Winery/Welcome.html), for their anniversary party. I had a good time and really enjoy the tips you can get from pouring fabulous wine and $5 Coronas. The next morning I was up at 6 am in order to make a train at 6:42 am to get to San Fran Powell station by 7:30. From there I walked up (very much up) to Erika's apartment. From there we left for her final exam for Esthetician school, where I was her client of choice. I lay there going in and out of sleep on the table for an hour and a half enjoying the bliss of a face massage. OH! we also stopped for some delicious mint mojito coffee at Philz coffee (http://philzcoffee.com/). After our appointment we went to the airport where Erika needed to make a flight and I wanted to figure out the Bart system at the airport before my wonderful friends come for a visit next weekend.

Next step in the posting process... figure out how to put links by clicking the title rather than having to put in the whole URL ). Also! I need to get cracking on taking photos. Its a hard habit to form.

No, not insects but eye lashes; fake ones. Also the new book I'm reading Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang