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Run into\u00a0me on a Monday and I’m a sweetheart.
\nIf it’s\u00a0Friday you might want to pass me by.<\/p>\n

I blame the boss for not letting me take a nap.<\/p>\n

There are two times in your life when the truth is evident.<\/p>\n

Once when you’re two years old and once when you’re a billion years old – like me.<\/p>\n

Naps are where it’s at.<\/p>\n

\"Nap02\"<\/a>Everybody loves naps except the people you work for.<\/p>\n

We’ve all worked out elaborate ways of sitting in our office looking busy while we’re napping.<\/p>\n

I like faking the study of some report.<\/p>\n

Waste of good innovation.<\/p>\n

Some of the greatest thinkers took lots of naps.<\/p>\n

Winston Churchill fought World War Two while napping each day.<\/p>\n

It was a bunch of years ago when some guy on the City Council tried to pass a bill giving city workers the right to take a 30 minute nap after lunch.<\/p>\n

Everybody laughed at him, including me.<\/p>\n

Then I saw the light, so to speak.
\nHe was ahead of the time.<\/p>\n

The workers thought it was a great idea.<\/p>\n

The scientific research about naps has arrived.<\/p>\n

I keep an eye on this stuff so you’ll always know what’s going on with test tubes and rat’s mazes.<\/p>\n

Scientists are saying the evidence proves there are real benefits to a nap.<\/p>\n

People who nap will tell you they knew it all along.<\/p>\n

\"Nap01\"<\/a>A short snooze of 10-20 minutes will fix you right up.<\/p>\n

Got more time?
\nThen pack it in for at least 90 minutes.<\/p>\n

Anything in between doesn’t work well.<\/p>\n

It all has to do with non-REM and REM sleep.
\nToo complicated for here but I bet you don’t want to know why anyway.<\/p>\n

I was in a meeting recently at 10 o’clock where I was dying to close my eyes.<\/p>\n

Maybe I did because everyone suddenly started looking at me in a strange (or envious) way.<\/p>\n

Maybe they thought I died.
\nFooled them.<\/p>\n

The Spanish have been doing napping for years.
\nThey even close businesses for about two hours after lunch while everyone hits the rack.<\/p>\n

Of course their economy is in the dumpster but it’s a small price for\u00a0feeling good.<\/p>\n

Some people say our economy isn’t much better.
\nThey should take a nap and see if that brightens their day.<\/p>\n

The further I get from Monday the grumpier I get.
\nThat’s proof enough for me.<\/p>\n

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