Yawn

So Chris and I stayed up a little later than usual last night to watch the first episode of the Colbert Report. Normally I try to get to bed around 10-10:30pm, which is fairly lame, but I get up so early that it's not really practical to stay up much later. In any case, I woke up at my normal time this morning (5:15am) and I can't believe I used to regularly go to classes and work on even less sleep than this just a couple of years ago. My brain is all foggy and my eyes are burning and feel physically tired, and I had to add extra shots to both of my morning coffees. And that's on five hours of sleep - which is a generous amount by the standards I had at eighteen. Is it that my sleep requirements have changed, or was I just insane to think that four hours was enough at the time?

Come to think of it, I guess my four-hours-a-night years did coincide with my three-No-Doz-a-day years and my sleeping-on-the-subway years. Funny how that works.

Anyway, we thought the Colbert Report was pretty good. The pacing was a little off at times, but the interview with Stone Phillips was gold. I'll be curious to see whether or not the show will hold up over the years as the Daily Show has done. If they're going to keep introducing new things I want to see that are on after my bedtime, I really need to get around to setting up our TiVo. Maybe this weekend (she says for the umpteenth time).

The weather continues to be pretty excellent. This is the time for eating things that are pumpkin-flavored and wearing all the blazers and jackets that live in the closet for all but three weeks of the year. I have also switched to my fall perfume - Demeter Pumpkin Pie. Good stuff.