Unless you’re a nocturnal animal, or a human being on copious amounts of drugs, your sleeping habits have been negatively affected by Daylight Savings. This past weekend, we all lost 60 minutes of sleep as we set our clocks ahead one precious hour.

According to WebMD, we are supposed to be getting eight hours of sleep each night. Factor in extra work, and that episode of Lost you just can’t miss, and you’re down to six. Want a social life? Make that four or five. Just when you thought setting your alarm couldn’t get any more painful, March 9th comes around, pushing your schedule an hour forward.

Of course, we’ll become used to Daylight Savings in a few days. It’s only hard to get through the first week where your body actually notices the time difference. Ehow.com offers some juvenile advice on how to adjust to Daylight Savings. These handy hints include going to bed earlier, drinking some milk, and taking a relaxing bath. Comical, considering that the probability of me competing in the Olympics is definitely higher than my chances of being tucked into bed at 10 PM with a glass of milk on my nightstand.

Ruling out any ridiculous hopes of warm chamomile tea and lavender-scented bubble baths, all I’m left with are my standard coping mechanisms. Daylight Savings may take away an hour of sleep, but as long as I’ve still got Starbucks and Red Bull I think I just might survive.