An extra hour of sleep

Interesting study on sleep and dreams.

I am posting this as the clock ticks closer to 1 a.m., ensuring that I will get — at most — six hours of sleep. Stoopid.

Uninvited guests

I am passed out drunk on the couch and I hear my dad's voice and realize that he has somehow gotten into my apartment despite having no key. He comes into the living room, followed by my mom and my brother — the 12-year-old version of my brother, that is — and they are looking around at the mess and I give them hugs and try to wake and sober up and am just stricken with embarrassment and guilt that they've caught me in a severely mortifying moment.