I knew I could count on you to ask that question before i did.
Did you see??? I FOUND MY PASSPORT. That means a visit! SOON!
Well, it’s an important question. ‘Cause it helps me determine the amount of pity I might or might not feel. 😉
I saw! I saw! I’m excited. *nod*
Sleep is for the weak.
The weak like ME! I would die if I tried to live at your pace for even a week, I swear.
Ah, Mel, it hurts so good.
Except for the part where I was so sleepy I lost my sense of depth perception and slammed my knee into the side of my filing cabinet about five minutes ago. That actually hurts kind of bad.
Silly gurlie. *pet*
However, that’s ALL you’re getting sympathy for.
*smoooch*
It’s odd how normal this 4hrs sleep per night pace has come to feel. I know there’s something inherently wrong with being awake for more than 18 hours a day, but there’s just no other way to get things done. And I still don’t have enough time – I can’t remember the last night I spent at home all by myself.
I’m seriously considering just cutting sleep out altogether for a week so I can get my taxes done, finish pencilling the title page for ‘Extinct’, and deliver you my promised articles for TMB.net
But I just love being in bed too much to give it up altogether. It’s a bad habit I can’t seem to quit. Maybe there’s a patch?
It’s clearly time to trot out my pet manifesto again. It goes a little something like this: Human beings are no longer tied to a diurnal schedule. Most of us keep wacky hours in terms of sunlight exposure anyway (even those of us who work days spend most of our time under artificial lights), and most of us don’t get nearly enough sleep.
Clearly, it is time to break free from solar tyranny and invent a new standard that makes SENSE in terms of the way we live: the 30 hour day. The premise is quite simple – we’d be awake just as much as we are now, get just as much (if not more) work done, have time to ourselves AFTER work without compromising our health… because then we’d STILL have enough hours left over before work starts again, for a FULL NIGHT OF SLEEP.
And no one, even shift workers, would have to live in a world of nights, because of course, the starting and ending points of the day would shift 6 hours every cycle, allowing us to experience ALL the times of day as both waking and sleeping periods.
I would be willing to change the 30 hours to something that fits better with the lunar cycle in terms of # of days per year. 48 hours would be far too much, but perhaps there would be a number that would be more mathematically palatable than 30.
There endeth the proposal.
I can’t decide which I like better – the proposal for the 30-hour day (which I’m 100% on board with, btw), or the fact that you even *have* a pet manifesto – that’s the best thing ever. Where can I get one?
Why, at the manifesto pet store, of course! 😉
I just like the idea of “solar tyranny”.
You know you’ve been working in a comic shop too long when you no longer think to yourself, “that would be a great name for a band!” and start thinking “that would make an excellent plot for a graphic novel.
Sister, you just described my whole life. I am the Chuck Yeager of sleep dysfunction.
“PAIN IS PROOF”
I am seriously ashamed of my inability to recall (or rather, recognize the situation applicability of) the 12 multiplication table. *hangs head in shame*
You did NOT just link to Solarbabies. I just had a scary oldschool flashback. That movie almost stopped and I from dating, back in the day. That is to say, he came out with a group of my friends and we watched that at Craig Munday’s house and I do believe there was some mocking of the movie and blaming of the movie choice on the aforementioned boy. But I think somehow I ended up forgiving him. Because the dating did, as we all recall, occur.
Is it a good hurt, or a bad hurt?
I knew I could count on you to ask that question before i did.
Did you see??? I FOUND MY PASSPORT. That means a visit! SOON!
Well, it’s an important question. ‘Cause it helps me determine the amount of pity I might or might not feel. 😉
I saw! I saw! I’m excited. *nod*
Sleep is for the weak.
The weak like ME! I would die if I tried to live at your pace for even a week, I swear.
Ah, Mel, it hurts so good.
Except for the part where I was so sleepy I lost my sense of depth perception and slammed my knee into the side of my filing cabinet about five minutes ago. That actually hurts kind of bad.
Silly gurlie. *pet*
However, that’s ALL you’re getting sympathy for.
*smoooch*
It’s odd how normal this 4hrs sleep per night pace has come to feel. I know there’s something inherently wrong with being awake for more than 18 hours a day, but there’s just no other way to get things done. And I still don’t have enough time – I can’t remember the last night I spent at home all by myself.
I’m seriously considering just cutting sleep out altogether for a week so I can get my taxes done, finish pencilling the title page for ‘Extinct’, and deliver you my promised articles for TMB.net
But I just love being in bed too much to give it up altogether. It’s a bad habit I can’t seem to quit. Maybe there’s a patch?
It’s clearly time to trot out my pet manifesto again. It goes a little something like this: Human beings are no longer tied to a diurnal schedule. Most of us keep wacky hours in terms of sunlight exposure anyway (even those of us who work days spend most of our time under artificial lights), and most of us don’t get nearly enough sleep.
Clearly, it is time to break free from solar tyranny and invent a new standard that makes SENSE in terms of the way we live: the 30 hour day. The premise is quite simple – we’d be awake just as much as we are now, get just as much (if not more) work done, have time to ourselves AFTER work without compromising our health… because then we’d STILL have enough hours left over before work starts again, for a FULL NIGHT OF SLEEP.
And no one, even shift workers, would have to live in a world of nights, because of course, the starting and ending points of the day would shift 6 hours every cycle, allowing us to experience ALL the times of day as both waking and sleeping periods.
I would be willing to change the 30 hours to something that fits better with the lunar cycle in terms of # of days per year. 48 hours would be far too much, but perhaps there would be a number that would be more mathematically palatable than 30.
There endeth the proposal.
I can’t decide which I like better – the proposal for the 30-hour day (which I’m 100% on board with, btw), or the fact that you even *have* a pet manifesto – that’s the best thing ever. Where can I get one?
Why, at the manifesto pet store, of course! 😉
I just like the idea of “solar tyranny”.
You know you’ve been working in a comic shop too long when you no longer think to yourself, “that would be a great name for a band!” and start thinking “that would make an excellent plot for a graphic novel.
Although I have to admit, my first thought was a nostalgic one, for a really bad tank-girl/rollerball style eighties movie I once loved.
Sister, you just described my whole life. I am the Chuck Yeager of sleep dysfunction.
“PAIN IS PROOF”
I am seriously ashamed of my inability to recall (or rather, recognize the situation applicability of) the 12 multiplication table. *hangs head in shame*
You did NOT just link to Solarbabies. I just had a scary oldschool flashback. That movie almost stopped and I from dating, back in the day. That is to say, he came out with a group of my friends and we watched that at Craig Munday’s house and I do believe there was some mocking of the movie and blaming of the movie choice on the aforementioned boy. But I think somehow I ended up forgiving him. Because the dating did, as we all recall, occur.