Sleepless in South Edmonton

Once again, I find myself completely exhausted and wide awake.

As someone who generally aims for 7 or 8 hours of sleep per night, being up at 12:50 a.m. and knowing that my alarm will go off at 6:30 tomorrow morning is pretty much torture.

Ever since I moved back into my parents' house, I've been having trouble sleeping. I don't know what the connection is. So far, I've only been able to come up with three variables that have changed since I moved home.

1. I've exchanged traffic noise for the constant croaking of frogs. (Save tonight when it is the steady pitter-patter of rain pelting down on my open window instead.)
2. The curtains in my old room completely blacked out light, but the curtains in "my" new room only partially black it out.
3. I used to have a TV in my bedroom and generally watched for at least a few minutes before falling asleep.

I'm not sure which of those three variables is contributing to the fact that my eyes suddenly pop open when my head hits the pillow, but as I only have seven 6:30 alarms left, I suppose I don't really need to worry.

If anyone out there is some sort of sleep expert, please give me some tips. I finally stopped fighting the restlessness and have done such things as write in my blog and, more importantly, work on reading The Goal (which, if you've been following along, was supposed to be done by the end of June, but which I did not actually pick up from Chapters until Monday. I hope all the books I have to read for business school are structured like stories.).

Until I figure out how to sleep, I am off to read other blogs. I noticed three new updates in my blogosphere when I logged on to write this...