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I was able to sleep an hour and a half later than normal today due to the day off. So I was up by six. I don’t remember the context anymore but Dr. Cary last spring in the Systems of Human Inquiry class said to me, “You’re heading toward insomnia.” I don’t know if I can’t sleep, or if I just don’t sleep. Although Sunday night I woke up every hour, thinking/dreaming about both school and work. Oh, well: this too shall pass. I think I finally have a topic for the last paper in Cary’s Instructional Theory class: The politics of Power and Performance in the Classroom. I woke up this morning with the topic as I rolled out of bed to let the cats out. I will use McWilliams’ “Pedegological Pleasures” with little bits of Ellsworth’s “Places of Learning” thrown in for flavor. All very post-modern: I am such an academic wonk. Sounds like a winner, if not then at least something to babble about for the required length of space. Next semester I am only taking one class; I am hoping I will have an easier time. But I will probably find other just as stupid things to worry myself with.