  7:24 a.m. Friday, Day 179. Holy cow, them martinis add up! Let's just say that in binary, my calories yesterday were 00110010 00110011 00111000 00110001! Much compensation today, in the form of salad and water. I feel surprisingly good for someone who drank so much and had restless sleep (o the dreams). I saw something on the news the other day about teenagers who watch too much television having the same type of insomnia I do (waking up in the middle), and that it also makes them irritable and stupid.
Or words to that effect. Oh my god, I thought, that's ME! I'm a surly teenager! But why should this phenomenon be limited only to teenagers? Since it was a local news report there was little or no scientific information, so I'm not sure what the exact mechanism is, except they mentioned the bright light from the TV. I couldn't tell if they meant overall TV exposure, or only when falling asleep (that's me), and whether the light from the computer monitor has the same effect (one would assume). They didn't mention content at all, which would also be a factor. Televison programming after 9:00 is nothing but death, autopsies, murder, and other crimes. It's depressing as hell, not a good frame of mind to fall asleep with. 
