[ashark]

I have a lot of trouble falling back asleep after something like that when I know an alarm is set. The result is that I have to stay up later than I'd like to make sure I'm so tired that I am very unlikely to wake up at all before the alarm goes off, getting 6-7 hours most nights, when I'd love 8-9 but can't risk waking up at 2:00 (because I wasn't falling-over tired when I went to bed) and not being able to fall back asleep due to alarm-anxiety.

My wife and I each take a separate sleep-in day on the weekends (someone has to get up with the kids) to make up for stuff like this. I'd rather not have one since it cuts heavily in to nice daylight hours, but as it is it's do the 12-hour-sleep make-up thing on the weekend or risk having a 3-hours-of-sleep night on a Tuesday because I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep.

The only solution I can come up with is "get rich enough not to have an alarm". :-/