I could feel myself slipping into autopilot on the drive into work this morning.  This always makes me nervous, because sometimes I get so drowsy that even though I'm fighting sleep with all my will I fall asleep anyway.  This has happened to me numerous times in lecture while I'm sitting in the front row of a small classroom and drool is starting to smudge my notes.  Needless to say I've pissed off many professors, but hoenstly it wasn't the material that was putting me into a state of dormancy.  I can just fall asleep anywhere.  I've fallen asleep in Central Park, on many a bus in Pittsburgh (which has made me miss my stop and in turn created  a long walk to the orginal destination), in rehearsal when it wasn't my turn to rehearse, and in biochem (one of my favorite classes). However this is a relatively recent characteristic of mine.  I was never this bad.  I used to only sleep for maybe 4 or 5 hours and spend most of the day in physical exercise, but now I cannot. Now  I pine for sleep.  It's not depressionl.  I affirm  that I am truly content.  I just really like to slip into a slumber and be  engrossed in that cloud of rejuvenational slumber  (I know rejuvenational is not a word).  I digress.   To get back to the beginning of this blog.  I zoned out driving with the flow of traffic which was holding steady at 74 mph and completely passed my exit this morning.  Son of a... you know the rest.  I had to take the exit in Norwood and get back on 95.  It did lead me to a discover that there's an entrance to 95 on the other side of work. A side of the campus I have yet to investigate, which will probably be useful when traffic is not compliant to my current route.  Also I wasn't late to work which is a plus because the sooner I'm in the sooner I leave.  I just fear the autopilot feeling and it scares me even more that autopilot is hard to come out of.  I need an emergency escape button.