It is 3am. I am awake. There are a few things that I cannot work without. One of those is sleep. It might be suggested that few people are fully functioning on less than a sensible amount of sleep, but I have reason to believe that I'm particulary bad in this sort of circumstance. Ask anyone who's had the misfortune of encountering me in the lab after a night out. Less than the required 7-8 hours or so, and the effects show quite obviously. To be blunt, I'm a cranky bitch. It's one of those things I try to hide if possible, or at least minimise the effects. So, perhaps, it's a silly idea for me to turn on the computer at 3am. Maybe, it's a silly idea to mainline caffeine and forget to eat properly. It's probably a silly idea to continue to go to bed at silly hours and get up too late, it sets off a cycle that's hard to break. Studying productivity tends to slow once it gets dark, so therefore this limits my window of working hours considerably. I haven't got the panic yet. Exams start in less than a week.
I wish I could go for a walk. I need to get out. I need to sleep.
I lie awake, it's a quarter past three
I'm screamin' at night as if I thought
You'd hear me
On the jukebox: Anna Nalick ~ Breathe (2am)
I wish I could go for a walk. I need to get out. I need to sleep.
I lie awake, it's a quarter past three
I'm screamin' at night as if I thought
You'd hear me
On the jukebox: Anna Nalick ~ Breathe (2am)
Haha, I wondered what the hell you were still doing on the forum. No caffeine after 3pm for me.
ReplyDeleteSquirrels are adorable. They're not like rats, they're like bunnies that climb trees. But any squirrel that tries to get up my shirt would not be my friend. That one was thinking it, I'm sure, but it had more class than that.
You can certainly ask where my trip is. But you've mentioned you're not very familiar with the area, not even knowing where Stoke is, so it probably wouldn't help to tell you that it's about 50km west. ;)
--Amber
I can function on eight hours a night, but I'm a much nicer person if those eight hours are 11pm-7am (like at the minute. Yay for the sun!) and a nicer person still if I get ten, especially in lecture-time!
ReplyDeleteWalks are good, though. I can't get down to work until I've been on one in the morning, and preferably I need at least another one in the afternoon/evening. Clears the head, eases the back, reminds me that there's a world out there :-)
50km west of Stoke? That'd be... Cheshire? *opens map and stops interrupting other people's conversations*
I like night time living, it's so peaceful and quiet even in the city it's like a whole new world.
ReplyDeleteThat said I'm not sure I'd like it on a regular basis, you'd probably start to feel cut off from the rest of civilisation after a while and go mad and crazy like some old loony woman.
Then again, sometimes I feel the need to be cut off..
Good song :o)
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I can sympathise. No matter how hard I try, i tend to get into a similar pattern (I've only just woken up...)
ReplyDeleteI'm generally grumpy first thing in the morning, when I've just been woken up by the alarm, and I still want to be asleep. Makes me very snappy.
Amber: I shouldn't do tea after 4pm. It's got stupidly small amounts of caffiene compared to coffee, but still I blame it for the awakeness.
ReplyDeleteLucy: I think I need to get out of the house more. Being confined to four walls is driving me crazy!!
Hannah: I dislike night-time. I don't like the dark. It's not the nicest place. Ha, "go mad and crazy"...? I think I'm halfway there without the excuse of being a night owl ;o)
Dickie: I think I am a morning person, to a certain extent. I like to have something to get up for, but lie-ins are welcomed too. I don't like staying up too late. It just feels wrong.
Nights are lovely, but too many of them, without any experience of 'day' in between, can make them pretty isolating and saddening times!
ReplyDeleteI am NOT a morning person. I work incredibly well between about 2 and 5 in the morning, and then can go to bed then. HOWEVER this means that the next day is more or less a write-off, workwise, so this is best done on a friday night. I don't keep regular hours at all, and I get through the day on pint after pint of coffee... it's starting to make me ill! But the upside of all this is, my best working hours are, like I say, in the dead of night, between about 9.30 and 11.00am or after an afternoon nap and before supper. In that order. This does not bode well for my exams, about which I AM panicking. You're not?!
I am concerned, most very concerned about the state of my revision as it stands. But if I were panicked, I probably wouldn't be spending countless hours a day on the internet achiving absolutely nothing.
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