A 30 hour day

I am in desperate need of 30 hour days. Not for everyone, just for me. Because if everyone gets 30 hours, than it doesn't help me at all.... I am always jealous of my graduate school friend KMB. She only needs 4 hours of sleep a night and she is super productive and happy from the second she gets up until the second before she falls asleep. I want to be like her. The things I could accomplish, if I had not inherited my maternal grandfather’s genes. We need at least 8 hours of sleep per night and we are dysfunctional the last two hours and really grumpy the first two of hours of our waking time. For example, last night I wanted to give feedback to my students in the discussion forum, but I noticed that I had to read each entry five times before it made sense – no fault of the students, but rather my tired brain.
On the bright side I did finally send off that article and the editor indicated that he was happy with it now. YEAH. I also went to the USCIS office in Detroit and actually dealt with a very friendly yet extremely confused Immigration Officer. While I should feel relieved that now my greencard is being created, I was rather freaked out that she took my old greencard all my original documents and stuck them in an envelope to send them to a mysterious office. When I told her that I would have to travel to Germany in May, she put a stamp in my passport and said: “I would suggest you avoid travelling with this, it usually sparks a lot of questions.” How comforting!!!! But this little adventure ate up 5 hours of my Thursday. But again there is a bright side: I got to try out my husband’s GPS system and had fun messing ‘her’ up. I kept taking different routes than ‘she’ suggested. And she kept saying patiently “recalculating.” Unfortunately, the drive pushed my back over the edge again. I saw the doctor on Wednesday and will now have physical therapy three times a week. We shall see how I hold up teaching for 6 hours today.
Most importantly all absolutely must-do-s on my to-do-list are done, but all the should-really-get-to-them items are still to be completed. Oh well…. 30 hour days and good health is what I need.