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.