Sean's Spiel: Eat, sleep and be merry

By Sean Mendelson

Pound! Pound! Poundy pound! The jackhammer pounds at the wee hours of the morning in the lot being worked on next to Safeway.

"Cluck You!" I yell, waking from my slumber across the street at my Sobrato residence. For a week or so I've been awoken to these hellish noises. I guess I'm cursed because three out of my four years at this school I have been kept up by Santa Clara construction.

Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating. Honestly though, freshman year when I lived in Graham 400, I woke up to Pat Malley Fitness Center being built. Sophomore year when I lived in Sanfilippo, I woke up at 3 a.m. to construction workers working over-time on Sobrato. The good news was that as payback for our suffering, myself and my fellow residents got some chocolate chip cookies from the school. Yippee!

My point here is that my lack of sleep on these occasions, like 63 percent of Americans who don't sleep well (statistic from sleep doctor on Live With Regis and Kelly), has put me in bad moods.

Therefore I say, sleep! Your overall health is more important than studying for a mid-term one extra hour that isn't going to make a difference anyway because you started studying too late.

I try to get eight hours every night. Now you're saying to yourself "this guys got no life." But you'd be wrong because we would all have more life in us when we have slept a consistent eight or nine hours a night.

Those of us who don't have a sleeping disorder and get like three to six hours of sleep a night on average, and you know who you are, are miserable. Don't live in denial anymore. And in the rare instances that you are not miserable, you burn out by the end of a quarter.

Now as the title of this article suggests, eating is also important for us all to be merry. And because it's in the title I feel obligated to talk about eating.

Eating is in fact important and a lot of us don't do it. We either starve to death or we skip one or two meals a day. I'm no exception to the rule being that it is college and eating sometimes takes the backburner to sleep or homework. Eat at least three meals a day and eat in moderation and you will be happier.

Until next time, this is S. Middy signing off. And remember to drink lots of water.