I Need to Learn to Sleep

It is currently 2:12 a.m. and I am sitting here in my dorm. I can't sleep. Well, I haven't really tried yet. The problem is that at college there are so many things to do that are so much more interesting than sleeping! I think that talking to people is the biggest distraction, because people here are so much fun to talk with! Usually some of my friends and I, and occasionally random people I've never met before, will all sit around and talk until about midnight when it gets too cold out to stay outside, and at that point you aren't allowed in each other's lobbies, so we just go to bed. However, today was a different story. When Ryan and I were going to dinner we found this spot on the sidewalk that was unusually hot. We pointed it out to everyone that walked past it. After dinner, Ryan and Kayla and I sat there because it felt so nice and warm, and other people would stop and talk to us. At about 11:00 we had a pretty large group of people sitting on the warm spot on the sidewalk. Some girls walked by with a bunch of glowsticks and gave them to us, so we arranged the glowsticks to say "The Hot Zone" right on the hot square of the sidewalk. So many people would walk past and ask what "the hot zone" was, so we'd tell them to feel the sidewalk there. It was actually quite amusing watching how many people thought it was the glowsticks that were making the sidewalk really hot and a lot of people asked us "What did you do??? How did you make the sidewalk hot?" In reality, the sidewalk was hot because all the sidewalk squares have heaters underneath them to melt the snow and ice in the winter, but this one was broken, so it was just always on. Well, anyways, the sidewalk felt really nice there and we all sat there and were talking, but the problem was that the cold didn't force us to leave at midnight like usual, so we were just sitting there until about 2 a.m. when Anna finally got up and said "Ok, I think it really is time to go to bed now, so I'm leaving" and then we all just left because we knew it had been time to go to bed for the past 2 and a half hours but we just didn't feel like moving.

Hopefully I can learn to go to bed at a decent hour from now on! College people just need to stop being so interesting so that I can get some sleep!