Another bus ride back to the apartment today. Hopefully it’ll be under five hours; the ride here was just over the six hour mark due to large scale, poor weather conditions. I’m tempted to bring an extra strength Sleep-Ez to make the ride go by faster if there are any delays, but my experience with one earlier this way has swayed me against it. It was the first time in my life I took a sleeping pill, and I felt almost mechanically, medicinally drowsy. John called me in the middle of sleep, and the only thing I remember is taking the call, and telling him that I had to hang up because I was too focused on staying conscious to listen to anything. For some reason, I’ve always found it extremely easy to stay conscious, but the Sleep-Ez is the first thing that has ever overcome this ability. The only time in my life that I have ever passed out was during a weekend this summer, due to the influence of certain inebriants. The Sleep-Ez would be twice as worse, and if anything were to happen where I need to be awake while travelling, I wouldn’t be able to function.