What the hell am I doing still awake? It's only 11:30 PM, but I've gotten less than 6 hours of sleep every night this week, and I have to get gas on the way to work, which means leaving earlier. Damn but Flickr is the most incredibly addictive thing I've stumbled upon on the net! It's like what little I find appealing in those MySpace/Friendster type sites condensed and purified of all the bullsh!t blog overload that makes those places so annoying to me. A picture paints a thousand words indeed. Of course here I am going over to a text place to comment about it under auspices of insomnia, but that's just it. I like a few degrees of separation. Thank God we can't do everything here - I'd just get bored quicker.
Sleep: A Long Lost Skill
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1 SL Chris ZS |
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Posts: 3391 (12/23/05 5:17 AM) Board Leprechaun |
I hear you ljim. Firstly, it's 3:16 here, haven't gotten a decent night's sleep since she left. Secondly, I like social networks that actually do stuff for me much better than those that just exist. Flickr is an excellent example.
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Really Awesome |
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Posts: 234 (12/23/05 7:50 AM) Minister of Social Superiority |
5:00 here. Went to bed at 6:30 yesterday and woke up around 10. Blargh.
I might be getting a digital cammera soon. I figures I should join Flickr too.    |
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1 SL Chris ZS |
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Posts: 3391 (12/23/05 10:08 AM) Board Leprechaun |
8:00.
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Posts: 315 (12/23/05 12:07 PM) Purveyor of Cuteness |
2 nights ago i drank a whole bottle of wine, stayed up til 2 am, got up at 6 am for work, and worked all day.
i'm waaaaay too old to be doing that. first time i'd done that in over 3 years. hopefully will be another 3 years at least before doing such a thing again! |
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Posts: 315 (12/23/05 12:13 PM) Purveyor of Cuteness |
i've had insomnia for years now. my typical sleep (or lack of ) pattern is like this:
can't get to sleep. toss and turn. finally, after about 3 hours of trying, i dose off. then there's the slightest little noise, and i bolt awake. then dose off. then the cats want outside. so i get up and put them out. then i dose off. a half hour later, the cats are meowing and wanting back inside. so i get up and let them back in. then i go and start to dose off. then one of the cats starts playing hockey with a soda lid on the hardwood floor. and so on. the next night, in order to avoid the above experience, i take a trazodone, and maybe a muscle relaxer, too. at like 6 pm. then i pass out for like 14 hours. good times! |
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Posts: 6698 (12/23/05 9:08 PM) SARS Incubator |
Oh gods. These stories sound like all kinds of painful.
I've been sleeping okay ever since I finished school. There were some final stretch weeks where I was pulling 10 hours of sleep spread across seven days. Nowadays, I'm under the positive influence of Jessica -- it's amazing how religious she is about her sleep. Strangely enough, as busy (and, I must say, as good) of a student as I was, I never pulled an all-nighter for school. I've only done those for good, booze-laden conversations and booze-laden videogaming sessions. Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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Posts: 6698 (12/24/05 1:31 PM) SARS Incubator |
I'm so full of @#%$. I went to bed at 4 in the morning because of a long game of "Civilization IV" with a friend, followed by an investigation of Yahoo! Widgets (formerly known as Konfabulator). Finding new widgets is mad addictive. Favorites include a LiteBrite widget, a "tea timer" stopwatch for your brews, and a widget that scans a site for pictures of Russian mail-order brides.
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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Posts: 234 (01/02/06 7:35 AM) Minister of Social Superiority |
It's 4:30 and I have to wake up to catch a bus back to Winnipeg in four hours. :(
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 6698 (09/25/06 1:10 AM) SARS Incubator |
I do not like going to sleep on Sunday because the next day is Monday.
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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Posts: 234 (09/29/06 2:17 AM) Minister of Social Superiority |
I didn't fall asleep last night until half an hour before my alarm told me to go to school.
And now I can't sleep because I drank too much coffee all day to keep myself from passing out.  |
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4513 (09/30/06 12:40 AM) Audio Ambassador |
"I do not like going to sleep on Sunday because the next day is Monday."
I know that feeling exactly. Of course Monday might not be so hellish, if I did go to sleep at a decent hour, but logic serves no purpose in this scenario. |
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Posts: 6698 (09/30/06 10:35 AM) SARS Incubator |
And, of course, the sleep deprivation makes us increasingly illogical. :P
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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1 SL Chris ZS |
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Posts: 3391 (09/30/06 12:54 PM) Board Leprechaun |
I have the exact same phobia. I also feel weekends are too short because one must go back the day after tomorrow which is an entirely different beast than a three day weekend where one must go back the day after the day after tomorrow. I suppose it's a degrees of separation thing.
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Posts: 6698 (09/30/06 6:59 PM) SARS Incubator |
I hear that. I would be in favor of expanding the workday by two hours in return for getting a third day for the weekend.
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4513 (09/30/06 7:22 PM) Audio Ambassador |
SL is on such a schedule now. I'm just envious.
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Posts: 6698 (10/02/06 12:46 AM) SARS Incubator |
I am doing it again. Go away, Monday. No one likes you.
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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1 SL Chris ZS |
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Posts: 3391 (10/02/06 9:35 AM) Board Leprechaun |
Ha! I have this and next Monday off. Still means I have to go in Tuesday though.
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Posts: 234 (10/19/06 6:09 PM) Minister of Social Superiority |
Mondays are the screenings in my film class, and it doesn't start until 2:45, so I can sleep in... So basically I love mondays this semester.
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