I am a troll, you may trapse over my bridge at your own peril.

My apartment is a basement apartment. It is cool in the warm times and warm in the cool times, it is inexpensive and it has a cool layout (arched doorways!). But it is a basement apartment and if I go to bed at 11 hoping to wake up at 8:00 am (see, I'm even giving myslef 9 hours) I tend to role out of bed at closer to 10:30. In fact today, I slept right through my alarm and woke up at 1:00. You see, there is no natural light and it is dark in my bedroom all the time and the whole "daytime" thing never registers with my body. My internal clock is all out wack. I get tired at 4pm and I'm not tired at 3 am, but I do want to be in bed at 10pm and 10am. So--unless I want to both sleep through my last year of law school (actually, not a bad idea) and get rickets, I need to simulate some sun here. So I'm off to Home Depot to purchase light bulb, lamp, and timer switch. The better to create a sun for myself. Some people would think of this as a hassle. I prefer to think of it as playing God.