Tired.

I have not mastered the art of sleep. I don't understand how I can sleep 8 hours a night and still be tired, and then sleep 4 hours and be completely fine. I have a terrible time having a good schedule - I'll go to bed at a reasonable time when I have work in the morning, but it gets thrown off when I work late.

I guess the problem I have is that I've just grown used to being tired. Which probably shouldn't be the case. Or I guess it should? I rarely encounter someone, at work or otherwise, that isn't tired. But are we tired because are actually doing something to exhaust ourselves? Or are we tired because we don't get enough sleep? Or are we tired because we feel like we should be tired? Does it come from doing a lot or doing something that we don't want to do. Sometimes I can get 8 important things done in a day and feel exhilarated and then do absolutely nothing and feel burnt out.

There probably isn't an actual answer. I certainly don't expect one. I'm just writing this with my eyes half closed, knowing that I'm not going to sleep for another few hours, despite the fact that I keep saying I'm tired and sinking into the couch every time I sigh from my incredibly non-trying day.

It's times like these I wish I could be a cat, though they sleep for 16 hours a day and still seem tired, so it may not solve any of my problems.