Las Vegas is this totally huge place. At least, it seems enormous for a girl from WY. My boy friend lives about 25 minutes away from me. I work about 10 minutes from my house. I get up around 5:30, or at least the alarm begins at that time. I get to work around 7:00 and teach those little 7 yr olds until 2:40. At that, point, I continue my dead run as I go to Volleyball practice. Hopefully the energy is sustained as I try to portray the importance of keeping up the intensity during practice and games. Afterwards, I travel to Las Vegas (35 minutes), making certain that I only travel the speed limit of course. When I get to my boyfriends house, I usually help make dinner or at least clean it up. If I have any energy left, I do a little work, or some of my homework from my MA. The worst part is to follow. . . . Yes, be prepared.
I finally relax, as we turn on a movie. In seconds I'm conked out, drool, snoring, talking in my sleep, FULL Blown Rem cycle. Some would say they just fall asleep like that and stay the whole night, but our situation doesn't allow for me staying there. At some point, I always wake up. Sometimes it's at 8:00 and sometimes it's midnight. Once it was at 5:00 a.m. That was good, because I had to be up at 6:00 anyways, so I just went home. This process is totally ridiculous because after I wake up, I have to drive home. This sleep intoxication is the same as what I would imagine being under the influence of drugs would be like. I should be cited for this. It would be called SID... Sleep Intoxicated Driving.
It's really not smart for me to drive in these situations. Once, in 2001, I woke from a nap and went to my car to leave and managed to almost pull the carport over on top of my car as I pulled out. I left a nice little dent in the front bumper and caused the light to be pulled loose. This is not the only mishap I've had in my car as a result of driving while under the influence of sleep deprivation. About a year ago, I was a little late to Applebees, and so I had to hurry out to my car. I saw the trailer for the lawn workers parked behind my car. I even said out loud... "Oh, a trailer." I got into my car, checked out my makeup in the rear view mirror, and backed right into the trailer. When I hit the trailer I thought to myself... what did I hit... Can you believe I asked myself what I hit? Me neither. But with SID it's impossible to think rationally. I didn't even realize how bad I hit the trailer until I got out of my car to assess the damage. Needless to say, if it hadn't been for Bumper Medic and $400 bones, I would have had to have my bumper replaced.
In conclusion, I would suggest being completely awake before driving, especially for me.
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I would like to say, I too have often been intoxicated by SID. You're right, it's not safe! And yet here I am at 12:18 am posting this comment. Will I ever learn???
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