Winding down

You've had a long day that started hungover or at least cripplingly exhausted and the only reason you made it all the way through is due to coffee and the thought that you'd sometime soon be back at home, in your bed. Once you get home, what should you do to relax and shake off the dust of the day?

First, drink something. You've been sober (probably) all day. This is a lot of why your day has sucked so hard. Before you eat anything, get a couple glasses of red wine in your belly. If you have severe acid reflux, this is even better. 

Also, stay in your work clothes as long as possible. If you can fall asleep in your bed or on the couch completely dressed for work then it will make it all that much more disorienting when you wake up the next day. Also, sleeping with dress shoes on has been proven to make people into complete assbags.

Now, since you've spent probably the whole day staring at the computer at your desk, the best thing to do with your night once you get home and get drunk is to turn on your computer.  You should definitely check your email as well as your favorite blogs because the time it's taken for you to get home is enough for a lot of really interesting things to have taken place in the world. When you notice that nothing interesting has taken place in either your email or any other site you visit, just keep hitting refresh until something changes.  No matter how long it takes. This is a form of hypnosis which will help you sleep.

Once you're too tired or drunk to see straight, think about hitting the hay. Try to make sure not to get 8 hours of sleep, though. Think about how much more awful the world will be the next day if you're actually awake enough to experience it.