Reader's remorse

Last night, before heading to bed, I made the mistake of picking up Jon's "Christianity Today" and catching an article about the evangelical's theology - or lack thereof - on the body. For one who has done a fair share of thinking and discussing about this, I was riveted, and before I knew it - midnight was well on it's way.

Of course it didn't feel like midnight then. Nor was I truly tired, fully energized by new thoughts and ideas to this very important topic.

I didn't feel like I needed to go to bed then. But once I woke up..... boy, did I feel like I need to go back to bed now!


This is what I call "readers remorse" - when you wake up in the morning with the painful realization that the stories and ideas that kept you so captivated all night long, will not be captivating you all day, and the sleep that would have been yours has long since vanished. You spend the day in a hazy fog, wishing simultaneously both to go back to bed, and to get once last look at the article you barely had time to finish before reason slowly crept in (or your spouse kindly reminded you that you had to work the next day). You regret reading past your bedtime, you wish you didn't find such stories so interesting, and you also know - without a doubt- given the same situation again, you'll probably doing the same thing. Because you love to learn, you can't help yourself, and given any opportunity to do more learning, sleep simply won't take priority.

That said, tonight's goal is to finish this blog post, read a little more, trouble shoot some computer challenges (both Mac and PC, sad), and then go to bed, putting all reading material out of sight or - at least- out of my hands!