I blame melatonin.

As anyone who regularly reads this blog would know, which means virtually nobody, I post in the wee hours and frequently....after a drink or two. I'm trying to stop that sort of thing as part of a general pattern of "living better". So far, this has meant more fruits and vegetables, a trifle less fatty meats, more water (I now schlep a gallon jug of water to the office with me, and drink most of it to keep from having to schlep the whole thing back) and fiber (acai powder! flax meal! details you don't need!)

To try to get my sleep/wake habits a little more regular and a little less nocturnal, I've been trying melatonin since it's natural and you get it in the "supplements" section of the drugstore, not the "sleep aids" section. (Those sorts of pills do very little for me because of a quirk in my metabolism. I either a) fall asleep for a solid four hours and am then wide awake and cranky or b) my natural insomnia powers through the initial "drowsy" hour or so, and then I go to bed like I usually do with the added "feeling groggy" the next day.)

Melatonin works. It put me in the next best thing to a coma Saturday night. (I slept from 11pm to noon Sunday.) It got me the recommended eight hours of shut-eye Sunday night. It had me passing out before 10:30 last night--but there's a catch--

If I'm not awake, I'm not blogging. And since I'm kind of generally more relaxed, my "give-a-shitter" seems to have been off-line. I need to both be awake and kind of give a shit in order to blog. So, in a lifetime that has centered around "dog ate my homework" style excuses, my recent disclaimer:

I haven't been blogging because I've been adjusting my dosage. (Is that what the kids call it these days?)