When you're awake at 3:43 a.m.

Did you know that when you are sick and awake at 3:43 a.m. ...

1. that your internet connection is extremely fast?

2. that your coughing doesn't get better just because you're sitting up?

3. that your cats will want to play because they think it must be time to get up?

4. that even though your head and ears are so clogged that you can hear nothing but the sound of your own misery, you can hear a 3:30 a.m. train blowing its horn several miles away? Even though you can't hear it during the day?

5. that if you decide to take a shower because you haven't showered all day and your hair feels gross and you feel gross and you think if you just take a shower you'll feel better, that you won't? (I caught a glimpse of my face in the mirror as I was getting out of the shower, and I didn't even recognize myself...I look about as good as I feel...)

6. that while you are taking that shower your husband will knock on the bathroom door and ask what you're doing, and are you aware that it's 2:38 a.m.?

7. that there is nothing good on television? (And that's saying something...I am a huge fan of television that has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, including infomercials...)

8. that there's another train that goes by at 3:50? And a third at 3:55?

9. that because you never hear trains at home and now that you've heard three trains in a short period of time, it leads you to think that you may be making it up and that's just a ringing in your ears?

10. that you'll be inspired to write a random blog entry?