the small things

"the small things count" quote by Steven Lee who says he heard it from Joey.

They do.

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On another note, today was one of my worst nightmares come true. Maybe not a nightmare (because I am a drama queen, apparently..) but it was really quite embarrassing. I slept really early last night at around 12 after an impromptu phone conversation with Christine. I tried to set my alarm and wake up again in 20 minutes but instead I slept through the entire night...a good 8 hours. I never get to sleep 8 hours on a week night! I woke up this morning in a good mood, feeling good about waking up early and being productive with my time. But for some reason, when I got to my 3rd lecture of the day I was super tired. So unusually tired that I couldn't stay awake, I kept dozing in and out of class which is already bad. It wasn't even like the kind of dozing where your pen starts involuntarily moving everywhere on your notes, leaving you with a page full of illegible notes and random black streaks everywhere. It was worse. I literally couldn't stay awake. But after about 10 minutes of doing this, I straight up knocked OUT while sitting in the second row. It was one of those really good naps but I woke up feeling so happy about my nap that I was shocked to be in a lecture hall after waking up. I totally felt like I should've been in my bed and instead I was in the second row of a poli sci lecture with my professor going on about suffrage rights and the girl sitting next to me is stealing glances at me. At this point all I was thinking is "omg...I hope I didn't sleep talk" I slowly woke up -- trying to engage myself in lecture on the outside but inside all I was trying to do was figure out how long I'd been sleeping, if I'd sleep talked or done anything equally embarrassing...I couldn't really tell. Kind of at the point of giving up, I decided to just resort to taking notes again. Thankfully too much time hadn't passed since the slides hadn't moved. It was either that I didn't sleep too long or my professor just forgot to change it. The poor guy was pulled out of retirement so he could teach this class, and he wears a hearing aid. But he wears wayfarer sunglasses which I find adorable.

Professor, sorry I fell asleep in your class (and potentially sleep talked a little) I'll try not to do it again.

So, my question, why is it that I felt so tired when I slept SO much the night before? I'm so confused...someone once told me a long time ago that the amount of sleep you get in a certain night affects you not the day right after but the day after that. Is that scientifically proven? Hmm...