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"DISCLAIMER: OK, clearly I&amp;#x27;m on the road and not reading the other Glamour blogs...since Margarita wrote about this topic yesterday! Whoops. But I still think it&amp;#x27;s worth discussing here. I&amp;#x27;m curious about sleep lately. I suppose it&amp;#x27;s because I now have a kid so no matter what time I go to bed I&amp;#x27;m getting up at 7 (6:45 if it&amp;#x27;s not my lucky day, 7:15 if it is). Alex is a great sleeper and always has been so I don&amp;#x27;t really have anything to complain about...but here I am. My issue is that I really need to get eight hours. If I don&amp;#x27;t, I just don&amp;#x27;t feel right. And I kind of become obsessed about it, especially if I&amp;#x27;ve realized--usually in the middle of the night--that I&amp;#x27;m going to come up short. Last night there were the cutest little blonde kids running up and down the hallway in my hotel. They were playing &amp;quot;Mother may I&amp;quot; and screeching and laughing and occasionally throwing their green jelly flip-flops at my door. I wanted to go out there and say, &amp;quot;um, excuse adorable little kids, but ARE YOU SERIOUS?!&amp;quot; Instead I huffed and puffed while I did some work and sipped a beer. I couldn&amp;#x27;t spoil their fun...I remember staying in hotels as a kid and being so excited, although I highly doubt my mother would have allowed such behavior (and, as I told the room service girl, neither will I). Anyway, I was convinced that these kids (or their boozing parents) would keep me up all night. They didn&amp;#x27;t. I accomplished that all on my own. At precisely 3 a.m. I woke up and couldn&amp;#x27;t fall back to sleep. And all I could think about was how I wasn&amp;#x27;t going to get my eight hours, which made me less able to relax and fall back to sleep. It&amp;#x27;s a vicious, neurotic cycle. What&amp;#x27;s worse is that I just saw a study that said we&amp;#x27;re supposed to be getting 10 hours a night. (If I weren&amp;#x27;t on the side of a highway at a Dunkin Donuts right now, I would try to find this study). Who has the time for that much sleep? As a cancer patient and regular health-conscious person, I&amp;#x27;m a big proponent of getting enough zzzzs every night. But I&amp;#x27;m also realistic and some days I just can&amp;#x27;t go to bed at 10:30, you know? So I&amp;#x27;m curious. How much sleep do you guys get? Do you think it&amp;#x27;s enough? Here&amp;#x27;s to a great, restful weekend for all of us! --Erin"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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