in even going to sleep right now.
I went to bed at about 2:30, about half an hour after Jacki signed off, and just sat there… thinking. It’s 5:30 and my alarm is set for 7:00. An hour and a half? If I slept for an hour and a half I would feel worse waking up at 7:00 than if I just stay up the entire time. It’s going to be painful, though, because I can’t do any of the following:
“Sorry boss, I can’t come into work from 9:00 to 17:00 because I didn’t get any sleep last night.”
“Sorry Taiwanese kids, I can’t get paid to go bowling with you from 18:00 to 21:00 in the BOG tonight because I didn’t get any sleep last night.”
“Sorry Sociology homework, I can’t look up interesting facts on interesting monsters because I didn’t get any sleep last night.”
“Sorry Dark Knight, I can’t come watch you on the Navy Pier IMAX tonight at 3:00 because I didn’t get any sleep last night.”
“Sorry boss, I can’t come into work again because I didn’t get any sleep two nights in a row.”
“Sorry Casey, I can’t tell you how to get to Phil’s house for some delicious home cooking because I didn’t get any sleep two nights in a row.”
“Sorry Phil’s family, I can’t hang out and eat delicious food because I’m going to crash on your couch because I didn’t get any sleep two nights in a row.”
“Sorry Casey, I can’t tell you how to get to my house because I didn’t get any sleep two nights in a row.”
“Sorry Alyssa, I can’t come to your grad party because I’m fucking sleeping all day.”
Yeah, none of those will go over well. This will be fun! I’ve been up since about 14:00 Wednesday. I imagine it’ll be almost a good sixty hours before I finally get some good quality sleep time. I’ve pulled stupid hours before. I think I managed about two days a few weeks ago, work was included. Last time I broke fifty was while working on my physics midterm in senior year of highschool. It wouldn’t have been too bad except for the part where I had a six or eight hour shift an hour or two after school let out that Friday. I think it ended up being about fifty-six hours in all for that episode. I’m no stranger to pulling stupid hours. I can do twenty-four without any help (caffeine, etc.) just fine, but that’s usually when there’s not so much shit going down and I know when my next wink will be. This will be hard.
Things to do:
- Find $5 bill so that I don’t have to use the $20 for my CTA card to ensure passage home Friday after work.
- Get card for Alyssa today after work
- Figure out where we’re meeting the kids tonight for happy fun times
15:59 on July 17th, 2008
“Sorry boss, I can’t come into work from 9:00 to 17:00 because I didn’t get any sleep last night.”
-Agreed, that’s probably a bad idea.
“Sorry Taiwanese kids, I can’t get paid to go bowling with you from 18:00 to 21:00 in the BOG tonight because I didn’t get any sleep last night.”
-The BOG is Friday night anyway, so don’t worry too much about that. We’re just doing outdoor games again tonight. I handled them well enough last night, and Jeremy’s gonna be here to hang out tonight, so if you need to sleep go for it. You need it.
“Sorry Sociology homework, I can’t look up interesting facts on interesting monsters because I didn’t get any sleep last night.”
-Agreed, bad idea there.
“Sorry Dark Knight, I can’t come watch you on the Navy Pier IMAX tonight at 3:00 because I didn’t get any sleep last night.”
-We’re not going to hold it against you if you need to sleep instead of going, dude. Though you’ll be out $15 and an awesome movie… But if you go, take that 30min-1hr nap in between the movie and work. You may feel worse than not sleeping, but you’ll function better and be able to stay awake longer.
“Sorry boss, I can’t come into work again because I didn’t get any sleep two nights in a row.”
-Don’t need to do that if you sleep after work today until Dark Knight and then nap afterwards!
“Sorry Casey, I can’t tell you how to get to Phil’s house for some delicious home cooking because I didn’t get any sleep two nights in a row.”
-Dood. Google Maps takes care of that job, sleep the whole way there.
“Sorry Phil’s family, I can’t hang out and eat delicious food because I’m going to crash on your couch because I didn’t get any sleep two nights in a row.”
-Not needed, because you just took a nap all the way there from here!
“Sorry Casey, I can’t tell you how to get to my house because I didn’t get any sleep two nights in a row.”
-Google Maps saves us again, take a fucking nap.
“Sorry Alyssa, I can’t come to your grad party because I’m fucking sleeping all day.”
-Now is when all of those naps pays off!
See how those little naps work out? Keep that in mind in the future. That hour-and-a-half of sleep that you missed today would have actually helped you out a lot. Just don’t worry about the Taiwan Kids tonight, and get some sleep. You’ll be fine.
06:12 on July 18th, 2008
Ooh, a point-by-point. I like that.