A Better Alex, stage 1: EPRHA Journal

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To finish up reporting on this past day: I stayed up essentially all night like I said I would do, only 3 or 4 random nod-offs for maybe 30 mins tops each in the 4am to 9am timeframe. I had two Red Bulls, one at 9pm and one at 2:30am, and where I used to need upwards of FIVE Red Bulls a day to stay awake for a work day other than the nodding off these two seemed to have done what I needed. I made this morning's train and so far am unsuccessful in trying to sleep for more than an hour at a time (8-8.5 hour train ride), but listening to EPRHA during it whether I'm sleepy or not.

I know it's probably still too early to feel otherwise, but I still feel this was entirely preventable by me if I had disciplined myself better about the process (yes, "would've, could've, should've" time). Every time I've done this trip before I've been able to successfully make this train without incident, but this time felt different, from the night before all the way to now on the train where I'm starting to have a headache while I type. I haven't pinpointed yet what the cause could most likely be.