I hope I am not developing into a bonafide slacker, but this semester has prompted me to spend increasingly more weeknights watching than reading. I will let you know sometime around the second week of May whether or not such behavior should be categorized as balance or irresponsibility. Anyway, last night I again tried to watch Studio 60. I say “tried” because I fell asleep last week. I fell asleep again. But I still think it is a good show. I just can’t handle the 9:00 time slot.
I guess it all comes back to a little equation that I used during college, the MPST. MPST is Maximum Possible Sleep Time. It is a number that quantifies how much sleep is possible in any given night, under the assumption that you zonk out immediately upon your head hitting the pillow-which of course is unlikely. When my MPST gets anywhere near 8.5 I become nervous, for it seems like a lot of pressure on my body for me to insist that it fall asleep within 30 minutes of lying down in order for me to achieve the doctor’s recommended minimum of 8 hours sleep. So I feel much better going to bed at a 9MPST, thereby giving my body a buffer zone of 60 minutes. Better yet, if I crash immediately upon retirement- I get nearly 9 hours sleep. And who doesn’t want that?
So I think I will try Studio 60 on DVD. Until then, I think I will continue to use it as my Monday night sedative.
2 Comments
February 1, 2007 at 6:47 am
NINE hours. Wow…
For some reason, your blog hasn’t been nearly as stimulating for me recently. I think it’s because I can’t make fun of your top 7 every week. I felt like we had a Kornheiser/Wilbon thing going on there. Oh well
February 2, 2007 at 1:00 am
sorry iii, i must be a man of the people. september will come sooner than you know it