Life Through the Lens: A Lack of Sleep

It seems that I am constantly at odds with this nightly essential we call sleep. Since my arrival in New York City, sleep and I have not been on the best of terms. In what seems like an eternity I toss and turn in my bed, asking God to please let my body rest. After a few hours of deep Zzz's I find myself waking up and again struggle to fall back asleep. I can only blame this fight on several key factors:

Thoughts: As with every change your mind is clouded with excitement and worry. I am always thinking of my future here in the city, as well as my former life in California. Who will be my new friends? How are my old ones? How are my brothers doing? Will they look up to me or see me as the brother who abandoned them?
Time Change: If it is 12:00am here in the East, it is 9:00pm in the West. My past schedule allowed my body to sleep around 10:30pm, which is 1:30am. It is a definite possibility that my body has not yet adjusted to the time change and refuses to try to sleep at 10:30pm eastern time, which is 7:30pm western time.
Lack of Substances: In San Diego, my body used outer substances to tell my body to sleep. Here, I have yet to take daily doses of those substances so it is possible that I am going through withdrawals.

Either way, this battle with sleep and wake is still ragging. Hopefully they will come to a peaceful agreement...SOON!

In other news....my new roommate Tamika is pretty cool.