I had trouble falling asleep last night because I had so much on my mind. Candyce and I leave for New Orleans tomorrow, and I have so much to do at work. A website is like a needy child: you have to lavish it with attention and affection. Since I’m going to be gone for several days, I have to make sure there is enough content to keep the site fresh for a week.

You wonder what keeps other people up at night. I’m about to travel back to New Orleans where I went on “The Real World” five years ago. Then I would stay up worrying about how the show would turn out. After we moved out and the show was airing, I had trouble sleeping every Tuesday night after each show aired to the world. I had to get up the next day and deal with whatever story MTV decided to tell.

My friend’s brother just lost his two-year-old son. He drowned in the bathtub. How do you deal with that? You leave the room for a couple minutes and you come back to find your son’s lifeless body floating in the water. My heart aches for their whole family.