An Ode to the Early-to-Bed Party

The night ends on our terms.

She generally goes to bed much earlier than me.

Most people do. I like to keep somewhat strange hours. Well, I don’t like it so much as I have a lot of trouble sleeping — always have, since I was a little kid, an insomniac since infancy — and don’t get much of it, so sometimes I push it to near-exhaustion in hopes I’ll get a little…