Hurray - it's the first post

So I created this blog in a fit of insomnia, which - big surprise - came from me digesting a little caffeine earlier in the day. During my final all-nighter at grad school, while I was working with a team to finish our affordable housing development project, guess how much caffeine it took me to last until 5 a.m. - a cup of coffee? A red bull? Perhaps a whole pot?

Nope. I had one Diet Coke. I was wired all the way until we dropped our project off at Kinkos in Harvard Square. I ran into my friend Marci, who was just starting her day as a physical trainer. She was probably surprised to see me there, looking so awake, like I had just done a bunch of meth or something.

Which reminds me, the other night I was reading about post-coital narcolepsy.
Apparently the extra blast of oxytocin helps to induce sleep in males (like me). It was satisfying to read the scientific explanation for something that I have known empirically for some time.