What I've been up to, the importance of sleeping, and the return of Glee!

So yet again I'm writing after too long of an absence. Oh well. Time to get this thing rolling again! My goal is to write something at least every other day. I was doing well for a while there, then I fell of the wagon. I'm hopping back on and starting off with an update.

This time is crazy for college students. All the big projects, papers and tests are this week and next week, and a few weeks after that are finals. I have a 15 page paper due Thursday, a 6 page paper due the Monday after that, an 8 page paper due the Friday after that, and a 4 page paper due the following Monday. That's why I haven't been blogging much. Naturally this busy time of the semester can lead to lots of stress, and a major way to combat that stress is by sleeping.

To clarify, when I say sleeping I don't mean that two hours where you pass out from pure exhaustion and then wake up halfway through the class you were planning on going to. I mean 7-8 hours (a night, not a week) of nothing but sleep. It's also important to remember that sleeping is a choice. It's very easy to say that you don't need sleep or you can get by just fine with 4 hours of sleep, but that's just not true.

Getting a good night's sleep changes everything. Without it, your brain can't function as it should, so you go through the whole day operating at only partial productivity. And sleeping in segments (3 hours sleep, 3 hours awake) is terrible and produces the same results. You'd get just as much sleep and twice as much benefit from sleeping if you bite the bullet and lie down for 7-8 hours at a time. When you're well rested you can concentrate more, take better notes in class, and that's just the start.

I know this may sound preachy, but it's a subject I feel very strongly about. I make the choice to sleep and it helps me in more ways that I can list here. Give it a try.

And last but certainly not least, Glee comes back tomorrow! I'm so excited. If you become a fan on facebook you can watch sneak peak videos and they look awesome! They sing "Hello Goodbye" and in one of the most recent videos Rachel sing-screams "Gives You Hell" at Finn. Poor guy. And Idina Menzel is guest starring as the coach of Vocal Adrenaline! Can't wait to see what Glee has in store for the second half of season one!