The week is crawling by

[mousme]

I keep thinking it's a day later than it really is, and that's really not helping this week to go by any faster. Bleah.

Fixed more problems this morning, only to have twice as many crop up. *sigh*

Three days after this. Three days.

I just don't want to leave this place on a bad note. Every other job I've left has ended on a positive note (even Bell Mobility).

I found myself nodding off in front of the computer at 7:30 yesterday. Took it as a sign and went to bed. I still don't feel like I've slept enough, but ten hours is still ten hours. Yes, I "slept in" today until 5:30. I don't know how people do this on a regular basis. I really don't. I know plenty of people who get far less sleep than I do and yet still remain functional. I simply don't understand that. Really I don't.

I mean, I've functioned on little-to-no sleep before, but I never functioned well. In fact, in retrospect I realize I wasn't really functioning at all, but only thought I was.

Meh. I'm rambling. Probably the result of too little sleep for the past few weeks. I have to get back to work now.

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A cup of hot, sweet, delicious blackness...

[ulvain.livejournal.com]

... the vapors of which tickle gently the nostrils, our senses waking slowly to it... it's tingy, almost spicy smell finding it's way through our sleepy, hazy, dull morning olfactory glands... the swirly artistic cloud-like convolutions of the trickle of cream, smoothly breaking the surface of the hot liquid...

COFFEE!!!!

Missed your call yesterday - call me back to check when we can take a cup! (don't hesitate to call me during the day, if you get a minute!)

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

I thought the one-day-later thing was just me. If enough of us think it's Wednesday, maybe it will be.

Things will wrap up just fine, don't worry. You're awesome, they know you're awesome, and they're just headless chickens at the moment and taking it out on everyone in their path. It's officially no longer your problem in three and a half days.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I think it might be due to the fact that last week was a four-day week. It feels like Wednesday because last week, it was Wednesday.

[swestrup]

I've never been able to operate on too-little sleep. In my youth I could go on 6 or 7 hours for a few days and make it up on the weekend. Those days are long gone. Now if I don't get 8 or 9 hours in a night, my productivity is shot for the day. It doesn't help that programming often involves intense concentration and planning. On days when I haven't had enough sleep I clean my office, catch up on paperwork or write (bad) documentation. I know better than to work on code, because if I do I'll just have more stuff to fix the next day.

[baronscartop.livejournal.com]

> I know plenty of people who get far less sleep than I do and yet still remain functional.

Hah! They've got you fooled. And themselves, more likely than not.

Some people need less sleep. VERY VERY many less than *think* they do. The overwhelming majority are so used to stumbling through the day in a daze that they think it's normal, that they are alive.

t!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that. Now that I know what real functioning feels like, I can't pretend that I don't feel it when I haven't got enough sleep. Sure, I can get around and get some semblance of work done, but unless I have eight to ten hours under my belt, I'm not especially useful. Anything less than six hours and I'm completely useless.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Off topic: what email address should I be using to get in touch with you these days? NaNo stuff to discuss...

[the-lich.livejournal.com]

You can never get enough sleep. I've always had problems sleeping, then felt guilty for never waking up when I thougt I ought to. In my dreams, I hear myself crying myself awake, hoping I never do. Becaue sleep is so much more fun...

The dayly reccomended dose for sleeping is 8 hours minimum. I'm working on a short story about people that have stopped sleeping altogether and how the rest of the world are afraid of them. I'm still not sure how to justify that, scientifically speaking, but I would love to find a cure to this "sleep problem" and get on with my life.