the one where i think i'm an insomniac

so i used to text a friend 

who worked the night shift

until about 1 in the morning for two reasons

1. i wanted to stay up

2. i kind of liked him

and now that he's off the night shift

i can't get to sleep before 12:30 on any given night

and sometimes it's even later

and i usually wake up a couple times before i need to get up

now, it's not completely his fault

it started my first week of college

i realized that i didn't have a bedtime

and i could stay up as late as wanted

and it became a bad habit of staying up late,

sometimes all night. 

because i'm human, i now see

what a bad idea it was-

at least most of the time

i've resorted to the usual reading of books

which no longer tire me

i've tried reading the scriptures

which never worked for me

a couple weeks ago

i even cleaned my room because i couldn't sleep

and after a half hour of reading last night 

i worked out

so i've started something

if i am awake even a minute past 11

i have to workout before i go to bed

how does that sound?

what do you do when you can't sleep?