Late at night, lost for words...

I sit here in a similar fashion to how I've been doing other blogs, at night. For whatever reason, I get the inspiration to write a blog during the time when I should maybe have chosen sleep. No worry readers as I seem to have a habit of getting up at a reasonable time.

Anyway, how are you doing ? *your answer* Ah well that's *appropriate response*....hmm, it's odd I've got a mental block for a task I'm not required to complete, whether this gets published or not is truly my choice, and too be honest there is no real demand for me to get this published; as I have but two followers. I'm doing this simply for fun, as I may have stated in previous blogs.

(Ok, ok, Callum pick a point, topic, theme, subject, anything, just focus. You must have lost many readers by this stage...) Sleep, let's go with that as a focus-point.

Right ok, sleep, an odd subject for me to stumble upon, although appropriate considering it's nearly midnight. From the ages after seeing ''nap/sleep time'' as a nice treat, we have a disagreement with sleep; we are instructed of bed times, different for many of us, yet when push comes to shove we like to stay up late. In the end though heavy eyelids usually will catch us off guard and finally drop down without warning. Obviously, nowadays, anyone 15 + will want to stay up to be texting/MSN'ing/or even Twittering friends, they don't want to fall asleep and miss out on something big, but usually nothing really does happen, ''that'' person doesn't come online, ''that'' person doesn't text you back (probably because they are asleep) and so forth, you probably know your own experiences better.

Then there's the thing of not so much waking up, but actually getting up. If we say lying-in is being in bed on any given morning, you can be sleeping, or fully awake; yet as humans we seem not to like getting out of bed. With some people that may be down to not doing homework/revision (we've all been there). With others it's almost if, more correct to say is, that sense of, ''I went to bed, and I realised it's quite snugly, now do you mind leaving me for a few more minutes to appreciate this new found snugly sensation''. That's what you're thinking, but as you are tired it'll come out as a annoyed grunt, throw of a pillow, or (if you have one) beating your alarm clock to death; even though it was only doing it's job.

That's why I've asked people, ''Which do you prefer, staying up late, ?or lying in?''. ''Helpfully'', a lot of responses were 'boths', this was of a demographic of teenagers, so again helpful data. The point though is, it seems, we value avoiding sleep where we should be getting it, and then trying to catch up on it when we shouldn't be. In a sense it's like trying to change our sleeping patterns, but doesn't actually work.

Final point of note, to denote sleep in cartoons (as an example) you'll usually find this one letter combination, ''Zzzzzzzzz...'', there are many variations, but these are only to do with the number of letters used. My question is, why is ''Zzzzzzzz...'' used? Is it because of the sound of snoring, although if that is the case when you see a 'bumblebee cartoon' and next to that the written ''Buzzzzzzzzz'', in saying that, it's probably more linked with that breathing sound people make, still that comes across to me as a ''Ssss...ssss'' type thing. As a suggestion, could it be anything to do with, Z being the final letter of the alphabet, and therefore denotes sleep the final thing of the day?...it's possible.

Goodnight..or good day, depending...


Callum.