I have hideous insomnia problems, more than ever this past year when I haven't been working (that's how I found your blog, Bonnie, during one of my regular 4am surfing sessions). I've just been going with it, and have learned where all the squeaky floorboards are so I don't bother my sleeping partner.

Two solutions I have heard -- one is the "20 minute rule", where you never lie awake in bed for more than 20 minutes. If you can't sleep, stop trying and get up and do something useful. The other is "SR", or "sleep reduction", where you stay in bed for only certain hours, like between 11 and 7 am, and if you don't sleep between those hours then you don't sleep, you have to stay up the rest of the day. I think I will be getting this treatment automatically next year when I start back to university in January, because I'll have early lectures. I expect the first few weeks to be hellish, but to get on a better schedule after that because of the increased structure in my life. Do you have more unstructured time this year? Maybe that's it.