Why do I do it? Worknights where I stay up until 1am when I have to get up early the next morning and put in an extraordinarily long day... Staying out until all hours of the morning going to see shows or hanging out with friends... Planning weekend nights that will completely turn my sleep schedule upside with the knowledge I will not be able to turn it back before the workweek starts, beginning the work week with a sleep deficit... Because I can, I guess. I'm young, and if I can't take the beating now, when will I be able to? I'm being handed a great opportunity to sample life -- the big-city glamorous nightlife I never thought I'd have when I was growing up in Podunk Nowhere, USA -- and this is making up for all those nights when all we did was go to the movies. So until I collapse, I'm pushing forward. In typical I'm-young-and-invincible fashion, I'll deal with the collapse when it comes, if it comes. And to those of you who know what's going on in my personal life, I found it startlingly accurate that my horoscope today said this: Regarding a power game: It can be frustrating to wait for the other person's move. A wise person once said that the secret to having patience is to do something else in the meantime.