Someone is dreaming now and someone else just farted. Someone is coughing and someone else is getting out of bed and now I can here what sounds like a washer going and I can hear people talking again. I don't think that I am every going to get any sleep at all here.

This night is going on forever. I just wish that I can get the hell out of here before I go crazy like some of the women that are sleeping here in this room tonight. How did I get myself into this mess anyway? I think that 1am going to see if I can go and have a cigarette. Maybe if I have a smoke I will be able to sleep. As I get out of bed one of the girls starts to yell at me, "Leave me alone!" What is she talking about? I am not anywhere near her. She is making so much noise that other girls start to yell at me and at her to shut up but I am not saying anything to anyone.

The staff comes back into the room and tells everyone to go back to sleep and I am standing in the middle of the room and one of the staff asks me, "What are you doing?" I say, "I was coming up for a cigarette." She tells me, "You can't smoke after I a.m." I am upset and beg, "Can I please have just one cigarette?" Why is she being such a bitch? "No. You have to go to bed now like everyone else." So now I am back in bed crying because I am upset about all of this, being in a shelter and now I can't even have a cigarette. The women are yelling at me, "Stop crying." I can't seem to stop. The staff has come back into the room. "Come upstairs with me." As I start to walk towards the door someone yells, "Why does she get to go upstairs and we have to stay in bed?" The staff tells everyone, "Go to sleep."

When we get upstairs the staff says, "Go into the office and have a seat. What is going on with you?" "I am just having trouble falling asleep and I would like to have a cigarette and then go back downstairs and try and get some sleep."