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Recent incident: A little while ago, I ordered a desk from Wal-Mart that was shipped "site to store." When I arrived back in College Station on Friday, I went to the local Wal-Mart to pick up my desk and it weighed about 30 pounds. Now, the weight was not the problem here. It was the size of the box. It was a large, rectangular box that probably needed more than one person to carry it, especially up a flight of stairs. I am lacking in patience and decided that I needed to assemble that desk immediately, so I decided to haul it from the trunk of my car up to my bedroom. Well, I did pretty good getting the box out of my trunk, into the house, and to the staircase. But then the problem came. How was I going to carry this thing up the stairs? My first idea was to push it up. Obviously, that was stupid. I instead decided to pick it up in the center and hold it out in front of me. I did great. I went slow and made sure I was getting every step. Until the very last one. I missed the top step completely and the box flew out of my hands against the wall and took me with it. I hit my chin on the box and my right knee went directly into the stair. I laid in the hallway for a minute or so and then hobbled to my room to grab my cell phone to call my mom and tell her what happened so that she could feel sorry for me. Now I have a wonderful new desk, a very large bruise on my knee, and a lot of pain in my knee cap to remind me of "The Fall."

I'm not quite sure why I decided to retell this story here, but my knee hurts at the moment and I can't think of much else. Besides wallowing in self-pity, I keep wondering why I can't sleep. I came up to my room and got into bed about three hours ago and have not even come close to falling asleep. This is a pretty regular occurence for me, hence why I'm always so tired during the day. I've done almost everything I can about this insomnia problem. Let me say though, it comes in waves. I'll have about a week or two where it takes me 4 hours to fall asleep, but then magically it'll change one night and I fall asleep very easily. In everything I've read about insomnia, they call this something, but I can't remember right now. Anyways, stuff I've read says after 20 minutes get out of bed and do something else until you're tired. Check. Didn't work. I could take Tylenol PM. Check. But I worry about getting dependent on something like that. I know that they say you can't, but I think its partly a mental thing. If I take Tylenol PM every night for a month, I'm going to convince myself that I can't fall asleep without it. I've also read to avoid your bed for anything but sleeping. Check...well, sort of. That can be hard to do, but I do try really hard. Either way, none of it helps. What to do, what to do? This is how I get so much reading done. Since June, I have read: My Friend Leonard, A Voice in the Wind, An Echo in the Darkness, As Sure as the Dawn, The Atonement Child, and The Last Sin-Eater. Most of that reading took place after midnight. In a way, I kind of like it. I like reading and this gives me some time to do just that.

Okay, I'm tired of typing and this post is going absolutely nowhere. Sidenote: I just saw a FOX commercial where they showed the announcement of the winner of American Idol. It made me smile because I love Kris Allen. Okay, that's all.

Be back soon, HT