3 hours sleep...

[DGMacphee]

I hit the sack last night at 3am. I downloaded an Atari ST emulator. It kept me up all night. I played those classics like Typhoon Thompson, Verminator, and The New Zealand Story.

I loved that trip down Amnesia Lane. Only one problem: I had to wake up a six this morning. I had to help design the journalism department's newspaper. This means waking up at 6am, spend an hour getting ready (shower, dress, breakfast,  etc), and a two hour trip to Uni.

9 am. I arrived there and the paper's offices were locked. No big deal. I'll waste an hour at the computer labs.

10 am. The offices were open. No sign of my lecturer (also the senior editor of the paper).

I check my e-mail. There's a message from him to our class. Apparently, there's a problem with the paper's new templates and fonts. Not only that, he was called away on "news events in other places".

This means I'm currently waiting for him in the paper's offices.

And I REALLY need some sleep...

Meh, I guess I brought this on myself anyway.

[Kinoko]

Pff, you can't honestly expect people to be happy about you giving them important "Don't turn up" or "The time has changed" information by email. Even if you wake the person up, you have to call! Not everyone is connected to the internet 100% of the time with it sitting there on right next to their bed with a series of wacky and complicated contraptions designed to let you know the second en email from your boss comes in.

New Zealand Story - awesome XD

[Larien]

Your day today sounds sort of like my day Monday.
I'm associate editor on my school newspaper and Monday was the day the lastest issue was supposed to be sent to press.  I'd brilliantly stayed up and only gotten four hours of sleep the night before.  I guess I should've known better.
My Journalism class is at the end of the day.  It's a great way to end things...usually.  Unfortunately, I go in there on Monday and one of our senior editors had disappeared, taking our half our newspaper with him (he was in an unplanned meeting).  Okay, that was fine.  There was still 40 minutes of class left and he was supposed to have finished everything up over the weekend.  
But we needed to know for sure that he had actually done everything, so I went and managed to track down the paper in one of his classrooms (still no editor to be found), took it back to the Journalism room, and pulled it out to look at it: There was practically nothing on it.  We became a little nervous, but not yet panicky.  
We had to send the paper out in half an hour and he had the disk with all the articles on it with him.  Okay fine.  He'd get out of his meeting in a few minutes and we'd just print everything off then.  We knew it wouldn't take half an hour to do that, there was just no way it could: All the articles were done, they just needed to be laid out.  Or so we thought.
He comes back 15 minutes before deadline and tells us calmly, "My disk won't work anymore.  I don't have any of those articles."  Talk about panic.  We went into horrified shock.  Then he said, "I have most of the articles in my email though so we'll get them from there."
WRONG!  At that moment the Internet was down on every computer in the school because of some weird thing the technicians were doing.
We did get the paper done that night (way, way past deadline, needless to say) but I can't vouch for how good it's going to look when we get it back from the press on Friday.

So yeah, DG.  I get what you're saying there.  Sleep and annoyance aren't good mixtures.  They're both very tiring.
(Sorry this was such a long post.  I didn't intend it to be.)

[DGMacphee]

Insomnia must be a common trait among journalists -- I know alcoholism is.

Plus, I'm a net user, which doubles my insomnia, and I'm an Aussie, which triples my drinking.

[Darth Mandarb]

Insomnia is a trait amongst AGSers too I think. Edit - it's almost 6am and I'm still not sleeping ...

Just do what I do ...

Get only 3 hours of sleep every day.

After about 2 or 3 months you get used to it.

But wasn't the trip down amnesia lane worth a little tiredness though?

~ d

[DGMacphee]

It surely was.

I got to play Speedball 2 and Barbarian again!

[foz]

On one of my sleepless nites i found this site.....

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/remakes.cgi


and on it found a remake of Skool daze ...

http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/rjordan/klass/index.htm

one of my favourite speccy games.....its a good remake.

foz

[Larien]

I do think insomnia is common among journalists.  It didn't occur to me until you mentioned it, but half our journalism staff suffers from it.  There are days that they're no fun at all to put up with because they received no sleep the night before, but I won't complain because I've had my share of those days as well.
However, despite the fact that insomnia is not fun at all (at least when you have to get up early, anyway), if you have to suffer from it there's nothing better than a good game and a lot of Internet.  
Of course, a little bit of alcohol wouldn't hurt either but I'm underage so I won't go there.

[c.leksutin]

Insomnia. real insomnia, as in the medical condition is what I imagine it to be like in hell.  The medications that they offer for imsomnia is also like being in hell but maybe only on the 3rd level, where everyone who commits the sin of sloth is sent.

How did I come up with this analogy?  I've had both.  I've been diagnose with and suffer from clinical insomnia, AND I've been given and suffered through the pills they give you (I think I still have half a bottle of Ambin around someplace) and my final conclusions about the whole ordeal?  I wish the doctor had just kicked me in the balls.


How'd beat it in the end?  Better diet,  finding my bodies natural rythems AND lower alchol comsumption belive it or not!    

Babies dont sleep as well  as I do.



C.