It's funny the opera last night was about a sleepwalker, because, confession time: I quite often fall asleep at performances. I am unrepentant. The fact is, there's a lot of art out there that doesn't require much activity on behalf of the audience. Dance- look, there's people, and they're moving around. The orchestra- look, there's people all in black sitting in chairs, playing instruments. Opera's the worst of all- you already know the story because they print it up for you right in the program, and everybody is singing in a foreign language. At such events, in my cozy chair in the dark room, it is pretty much guaranteed I will fall asleep. Last night, I had read in the program that the first act has a lot of extended joyful celebration with little plot movement, so my naps were perfectly timed. I would wake up and see, oh good, they're still standing around singing, and back to sleep. I have the hardest time going to bed at night- it's such an admission of defeat, like, I have nothing else going on in my life, so I'm just going to shut down for awhile, only to have to wake up again and take time to get myself started again. You fall asleep at a performance, you're guaranteed entertainment the minute you wake up. I don't know what's better than that.