The other day I was in a conversation that forced me to raise this question: Why do you only find Sbarro Pizza joints in malls and airports? I've never seen a free standing Sbarro Pizza. They are always in the food court area, usually next to some Asian food option. Why is this? Do Sbarros have some sort of deal with the malls and airports? Are they not allowed to conduct their business outside of these facilities? Or perhaps they are too timid to compete with the corporate monsters like Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Pizza Shuttle, etc. The same question might could be posed to Cinnabon or Auntie Anne's (those cinnnamon, pretzel places) as well.
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I have recently become more self-aware of my sleep philosophy. I’m sure everyone has one; I’ve just never been fully in touch with my own. It has always been there, as I’m sure yours is there too, hidden and subconscious. I challenge you to begin to discover what it might be if you haven’t already. My sleep philosophy is this: I don’t do anything excessive in the middle of the night that might potentially impair the rhythm of my sleep. To articulate: If I can help it, I don’t get up in the middle of the night to use the restroom because I fear that by getting out of bed, walking around, doing “my thing,” and returning to bed, will throw off my whole sleep flow and I won’t be able to slide back into sleep easily. So if I wake up in the middle of the night and feel the need to relieve myself, I fight the urge and return to sleep. Pee can wait till morning. Unless of course it can’t…and sleep is thus sacrificed. Same thing with getting a drink of water in the night. Though Kathryn will adamantly disagree with me on this one, I also resist the urge to pull covers on top of me. My argument: I may do this subconsciously throughout the night, that is, yanking and pulling the heavy covers from one side of the bed on top of me, but if I wake up chilly and the covers are not on me, I fear that the energy required to grip, pull, and move heavy covers will throw off my sleep. It will get my heart beating faster which will require more time to slow back down. So I sacrifice the yanking and opt for a chilly night’s sleep. That is my sleep philosophy. I don’t involve myself in any superfluous energy spending (unless of course it is absolutely necessary) for fear that it will throw off my sleep flow. What is your sleep philosophy? Any takers?
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When you have small children you have no room in your life for a sleep philosophy. Every second is sacred, so if you are cold, you pull up the covers, because you never know when a child might sneak into bed with you and steal those covers. If you have to pee, you get up and get it done as fast as possible because if your baby starts to cry and you have to hold him for a while to get him to go back to sleep, and you've been holding your pee for an hour already, well then, you're pretty much hosed.
Yeah, I just sleep when and if I can. Babies change things.
Hey sac, are you angry?
Nope....just tired
my entire existence is spent in sleep or just on the very brink of it. my laid-back attitude is not the result of my worldview; rather, it is on account of the fact that i am constantly a blink and half away from a state of sleep. My sleep philosophy is not nearly so timid. It is always right there. I can play a rousing match of racquetball while guzzling a bottle of Jolt and sleep could be summoned complete a few moments after getting horizontal.
You and Doug... I can't comprehend your sleep issues. And, frankly, they scare the peeping beepers out of me.
personally, i love the subtle reference to Pizza Shuttle as a corporate juggernaut. Beautiful.
My view of the matter is that the bare fact of being awake, by definition and for whatever cause, implies that I'm not yet tired enough to go to sleep.
Accordingly, 'trying to go to sleep' or 'wanting to go to sleep' are contradictory ideas: if I really needed to sleep that badly, neither my snoring roommate nor a cold room nor the overhead lights could keep me awake. Should they succeed in doing so, the necessary conclusion is that I'm not yet very tired, so I get up and read, or bake, or set things on fire, or what have you.
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