The Science of Sleep

Somehow my sleep schedule is completely backward. I've been here since Monday, a reasonable amount of time to adjust to the time, but every day I progress farther toward a nocternal life. Last night was the worst by far. I went to bed around midnight hoping to get on track for a solid eight hours of sleep and an early start today. After dreaming about spiders and taranchulas for three hours I woke up and was unable to get back to sleep. I watched some family guy, ate a bowl of cereal-- it was corn flakes since the first cereal I bought was the equivalent of a day's value of fiber in one spoonfull-- and tried to go back to sleep. Apparently Adam was having similar problems as he was up and about as well. After failing to sleep for the second time, I talked to Kaitlin on Skype for a while. (Skype may be one of the greatest things ever invented.) By 7am I managed to get a little shut eye-- by a little I mean about eight hours. So now I've been awake for an hour and a half and the sun is beginning to set. And so begins the cycle again. I think I may just stay up all night and go to bed at a normal time tomorrow.

I havent seen much of Paris during the day yet, though I am looking foreword to it. I havent quite been comfortable enough to walk around with my camera at night so I dont have any pictures of the city yet. But I did take some pictures of our courtyard and out our back window. The apartment is pretty nice, we have a living room with a tv, internet, and kitchen. Its amazing how small everything is here. From our tiny fridge to our miniature washing machine to our 2' x 2' shower. With a population of about 2.2 million living within 87 sq. km (about 35 square miles) its easy to see how the people here have become so accustomed to living so close to one another. More pictures to come....