Time Since Last Nap: 1:44
Status: Feeling way too damn good
Currently Working On: RPG forums and other dinkery
Things are going swimmingly. I was frustrated earlier with my failure to spend a whole night without sleeping in, but I took precautions tonight and it looks like everything will go along fine.
First off, I got back on the caffeine. My reasoning: I have a massive tolerance to caffeine already, and so it won't affect me that much, also I only drank a can or two of Mountain Dew - enough to give me a pleasant picker-upper but not so much I couldn't sleep. (I had no trouble staying awake nor falling asleep, although waking up was tricky again)
As also, waking up was the hardest part. I'm in a particularly bad situation, because I cannot wake up my parents or grandparents or siblings. So playing a 30-minute nap tape is out, that would definitely get them after me. I could put on headphones, but I shake those off as I sleep. Usually what I do instead is set my cell phone to alarm, then leave it on the pillow, in the pillowcase, etc. This worked fine until I started sleeping through the alarm. I'd wake up with the odd feeling that I'd heard that alarm three hours ago, and when I checked the time... agh.
Anyway, today I vowed not to allow that to happen again. I set the alarm to its damn loudest, added the vibrate part, and used some electrical tape to affix that little beeper to the side of my head, just below the jawline on the sternocletomastoid. (Human Anatomy GO!)
Anyway, to make a short story shorter, I woke up with a buzzing, beeping devil playing "When The Saints Come Marching In" stuck to my head. I got up.
But that's not the good part, folks.
My parents are still convinced that this sleep thing is a crazy waste of time. So I decided I'd spend some of my ample time to kill hauling wood and doing other chores. Well, I hauled wood until there wasn't anything left to haul, and stacked it perfecty straight (I normally used the 'pile it it dries the same anyway' method) in a neat pile next to the woodburner. Brownie points.
I don't expect them to start supporting my sleep, but I suppose if I make breakfast for them enough times, they'll come around. Here's hoping.
(Oh, by the way - today I'm making omelettes for breakfast. Woo!)
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Getting back on track
Time Since Last Nap: 1 hour
Status: Feeling good again
Currently Working On: Housework
Yeah, seriously effed up yesterday, sleeping in like that. My parents still refuse to offer any support, and tell me that I'll kill myself within a week. So that's just more motivation to stick with this and get it to work.
I know I'll be seriously set back by that hardcore sleep-in, but I've been staying to the schedule religiously since then. It's also getting easier to fall asleep right away, since I'm so exhausted. Now the trouble is waking up again, and I'm lucky my cell phone is so loud. I'm also working on getting up to my alarm (Read somewhere in a blog that not getting up to your alarm is a habit and must be broken by practice) and so I've been taking his advice. Especially when I'm not particularly tired, I can make sure to get up, stretch, throw off every blanket, then turn off the alarm. I'm hoping that new habit will stick when I'm dead tired and I've got that little beeping devil in my ear.
I'm a bit stuck with hauling wood, since we've just come into a new moon I have no light to haul by. Fortunately, we have a considerable pile just sitting within floodlight reach, already split and waiting to be stacked. (I plan to impress my parents tonight by getting dishes, laundry, cleaning, wood, and breakfast done for them. They probably still won't supoprt my sleeping schedule, but at least they'll be quiet about it.)
I've also decided that I'm going to start working out. I've got enough time, something like weight training would be excellent. On top of that, I really could use some bulking up (right now my pecs look something like... nothing.). Hopefully I'll be able to get at least some stomach muskles before school is out. (Oh yeah, bring on the ladies... :D)
Okay, so I've hit more than my share of setbacks. Now it's time for me to just get back on track and do it. I might also make an alarm clock hooked to a water balloon... :D
Status: Feeling good again
Currently Working On: Housework
Yeah, seriously effed up yesterday, sleeping in like that. My parents still refuse to offer any support, and tell me that I'll kill myself within a week. So that's just more motivation to stick with this and get it to work.
I know I'll be seriously set back by that hardcore sleep-in, but I've been staying to the schedule religiously since then. It's also getting easier to fall asleep right away, since I'm so exhausted. Now the trouble is waking up again, and I'm lucky my cell phone is so loud. I'm also working on getting up to my alarm (Read somewhere in a blog that not getting up to your alarm is a habit and must be broken by practice) and so I've been taking his advice. Especially when I'm not particularly tired, I can make sure to get up, stretch, throw off every blanket, then turn off the alarm. I'm hoping that new habit will stick when I'm dead tired and I've got that little beeping devil in my ear.
I'm a bit stuck with hauling wood, since we've just come into a new moon I have no light to haul by. Fortunately, we have a considerable pile just sitting within floodlight reach, already split and waiting to be stacked. (I plan to impress my parents tonight by getting dishes, laundry, cleaning, wood, and breakfast done for them. They probably still won't supoprt my sleeping schedule, but at least they'll be quiet about it.)
I've also decided that I'm going to start working out. I've got enough time, something like weight training would be excellent. On top of that, I really could use some bulking up (right now my pecs look something like... nothing.). Hopefully I'll be able to get at least some stomach muskles before school is out. (Oh yeah, bring on the ladies... :D)
Okay, so I've hit more than my share of setbacks. Now it's time for me to just get back on track and do it. I might also make an alarm clock hooked to a water balloon... :D
Fuck
Time Since Last Nap: ~1:30
Status: Frustrated
Currently Working On: Nothing
Fucking slept in for 14 fucking hours.
Status: Frustrated
Currently Working On: Nothing
Fucking slept in for 14 fucking hours.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Shit. (Figuratively speaking, of course.)
Time Since Last Nap: 1 hour
Status: Eyes burning but mostly awake.
Currently Working On: Being at school
Fuck. I didn't think this would be quite so hard. Things were going fine last night, I stayed up and used the computer, exercised, yardle yardle. But then, around 11:00, my dad (and he knows I'm doing 'that sleeping thing') tells me to get to bed, he wants to haul wood in the morning. I tell him no, that I'm going to stick with my schedule. Later, I have to explain the same damn thing to my mom, who just keeps yammering "Put it off 'till spring break, put it off..."
It'd be nice to get some fucking parent support around here.
Anyway, I kept the lights off during the wee hours to not disturb anyone. Big mistake. I ran out of things to do and got really fucking tired. Not even running outside to fill the woodburner (in subzero temps) could wake me up enough. Eventually I bedded down for my 3:00 and didn't get up until my bedside alarm was giving me the 6:30 alarm. Fuck.
Okay, so I slept in. 3 hours. It wasn't the lack of sleep that was hard, it was just getting up again from the nap. So there isn't much to do for it but to keep following the schedule and tough it.
This was a lot harder than I expected.
Status: Eyes burning but mostly awake.
Currently Working On: Being at school
Fuck. I didn't think this would be quite so hard. Things were going fine last night, I stayed up and used the computer, exercised, yardle yardle. But then, around 11:00, my dad (and he knows I'm doing 'that sleeping thing') tells me to get to bed, he wants to haul wood in the morning. I tell him no, that I'm going to stick with my schedule. Later, I have to explain the same damn thing to my mom, who just keeps yammering "Put it off 'till spring break, put it off..."
It'd be nice to get some fucking parent support around here.
Anyway, I kept the lights off during the wee hours to not disturb anyone. Big mistake. I ran out of things to do and got really fucking tired. Not even running outside to fill the woodburner (in subzero temps) could wake me up enough. Eventually I bedded down for my 3:00 and didn't get up until my bedside alarm was giving me the 6:30 alarm. Fuck.
Okay, so I slept in. 3 hours. It wasn't the lack of sleep that was hard, it was just getting up again from the nap. So there isn't much to do for it but to keep following the schedule and tough it.
This was a lot harder than I expected.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Update - First Status Report
Time Since Last Nap: 3 hours
Status: Feeling good
Currently Working On: Thinking of things to do
One thing I've realized is that I'll have a lot of time to myself. A lot. So it might be useful to me if I had some stuff to do. (Yeah yeah, leave it to me to procrastinate. I'd heard people talking about needing things to do, but expected I wouldn't be so bored.)
Anyway. I have plenty to do, now that I think about it. Unlike some people, I'm not that alone. I'd like to have an apartment to myself or just a roomie, but unfortuantely I'm sharing a house with my immediate family and grandparents. So there are plenty of things I COULD do, like clean the room, practice guitar, breakdance, or sing off-key, that I probably shouldn't be doing at all hours of the night. Instead, I came up with this:
-Work out. I'm 6'2" and only 150 pounds, so I could use a little muscle. It's either that, or hang out on the computer blogging until I've got me my own set of man-boobs.
-Sketch. I draw as a hobby, and although I haven't been able to do much, most of it had to do with no time to draw. I've got a DeviantArt account, and so when I start coming out with good stuff, I'll put a link up here.
-Haul wood. Sounds like fun! We heat our home with wood, how quaint. Unfortunately, we heat our house only with wood. So if I just turned on the lights outside, I'd be able to exercise, heat the house, and keep myself awake. Win-win!
-Parkview Underground is a flyer sort of paper I'd like to start producing. It'd be completely anonymous, of course, and would probably piss off most of the administrators at school. Exactly why I'd like to do it. Again, if I do get this idea off the ground, I can use Blogger to host a copy of it for all to enjoy.
-Clean my room. Yeah, you can't see the carpet, which is how a teen's room should be. But if I got it all together, I might be able to find a few things. Like my bed.
I would read, but that makes me drowsy. I would practice guitar, but that's too loud for everyone to sleep. Aldo, I could watch some good ol' TV, but I would fall asleep.
Similarly, my dad just got home from a business trip, and he brought me back a can of Monster, my old drinking buddy. I chose to give up caffeine completely, because people said even small amounts could interfere with sleeping. However, even though I gave it up, I still have a massive tolerance to the stuff. I'm considering maybe having one of those Monsters (3 in the fridge right now) when I start getting really tired. *shrug* It remains to be seen.
One final thing to note: I just napped like 3 hours ago, at exactly lunchtime. But I couldn't really get to sleep, so I tried the good old breathing exercises. I don't doubt that the demographic I'm writing to knows what I'm talking about, so I'll just suffice to say that it was really cool. I've never had the time to do this either, and it was extremely restful. I'd recommend it to anyone, but I strongly suggest getting a clock that ticks. Without any kind of repetitive noise, I had only my heartbeat, which was too inconsistent to use for a counter.
Better, though, is my waking-up habits. Usually I'd get to bed around 12:00 and get up at 6:00, hit my alarm, go to bed again, wait for the snooze to wake me up again. This continues until 6:30 or even later, and it pisses me off greatly. If I could only get up the first time my alarm goes off... Well, this did it. I just have to make sure and throw the blankets off, stretch once or twice, then hit the alarm off and I'm totally awake. No knowing if that will last once I'm totally sleep-deprived and tired as hell, but hopefully it will. I've got my cell phone as three alarms, then two more on my bedside alarm clock. Both are loud as hell, and since I've got Rammstein's "Moskow" for my bedside alarm, I shouldn't be able to ignore it.
Status: Feeling good
Currently Working On: Thinking of things to do
One thing I've realized is that I'll have a lot of time to myself. A lot. So it might be useful to me if I had some stuff to do. (Yeah yeah, leave it to me to procrastinate. I'd heard people talking about needing things to do, but expected I wouldn't be so bored.)
Anyway. I have plenty to do, now that I think about it. Unlike some people, I'm not that alone. I'd like to have an apartment to myself or just a roomie, but unfortuantely I'm sharing a house with my immediate family and grandparents. So there are plenty of things I COULD do, like clean the room, practice guitar, breakdance, or sing off-key, that I probably shouldn't be doing at all hours of the night. Instead, I came up with this:
-Work out. I'm 6'2" and only 150 pounds, so I could use a little muscle. It's either that, or hang out on the computer blogging until I've got me my own set of man-boobs.
-Sketch. I draw as a hobby, and although I haven't been able to do much, most of it had to do with no time to draw. I've got a DeviantArt account, and so when I start coming out with good stuff, I'll put a link up here.
-Haul wood. Sounds like fun! We heat our home with wood, how quaint. Unfortunately, we heat our house only with wood. So if I just turned on the lights outside, I'd be able to exercise, heat the house, and keep myself awake. Win-win!
-Parkview Underground is a flyer sort of paper I'd like to start producing. It'd be completely anonymous, of course, and would probably piss off most of the administrators at school. Exactly why I'd like to do it. Again, if I do get this idea off the ground, I can use Blogger to host a copy of it for all to enjoy.
-Clean my room. Yeah, you can't see the carpet, which is how a teen's room should be. But if I got it all together, I might be able to find a few things. Like my bed.
I would read, but that makes me drowsy. I would practice guitar, but that's too loud for everyone to sleep. Aldo, I could watch some good ol' TV, but I would fall asleep.
Similarly, my dad just got home from a business trip, and he brought me back a can of Monster, my old drinking buddy. I chose to give up caffeine completely, because people said even small amounts could interfere with sleeping. However, even though I gave it up, I still have a massive tolerance to the stuff. I'm considering maybe having one of those Monsters (3 in the fridge right now) when I start getting really tired. *shrug* It remains to be seen.
One final thing to note: I just napped like 3 hours ago, at exactly lunchtime. But I couldn't really get to sleep, so I tried the good old breathing exercises. I don't doubt that the demographic I'm writing to knows what I'm talking about, so I'll just suffice to say that it was really cool. I've never had the time to do this either, and it was extremely restful. I'd recommend it to anyone, but I strongly suggest getting a clock that ticks. Without any kind of repetitive noise, I had only my heartbeat, which was too inconsistent to use for a counter.
Better, though, is my waking-up habits. Usually I'd get to bed around 12:00 and get up at 6:00, hit my alarm, go to bed again, wait for the snooze to wake me up again. This continues until 6:30 or even later, and it pisses me off greatly. If I could only get up the first time my alarm goes off... Well, this did it. I just have to make sure and throw the blankets off, stretch once or twice, then hit the alarm off and I'm totally awake. No knowing if that will last once I'm totally sleep-deprived and tired as hell, but hopefully it will. I've got my cell phone as three alarms, then two more on my bedside alarm clock. Both are loud as hell, and since I've got Rammstein's "Moskow" for my bedside alarm, I shouldn't be able to ignore it.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Belated Beginnings
Okay, so finally things are getting rolling. I didn't start earlier because we had show choir competition today, and I wanted to be alert as best as possible. Things went badly, the power to the stage went out twice, so our guitar soloist was stuck alone on the stage with a dead guitar. Ouch.
Anyway, I have no need to change the schedule, but unfortunately I'll be starting tomorrow without a nice cushion of extra sleep. (Me posting this at 10:00 probably says enough.) I'm glad, though, that I'll have the extra time. There are plenty of things I can do, including art, writing, clean the house, and the Parkview Underground.
Ah yes, the PVU. Since our school (Parkview) is such a shithole, even the school newspaper and student council are tools. Students are pissed, but they don't have anything better to do with their frustration than make small trouble. I figured if I wrote up an obscenely frank and scathing 'newspaper' and put it up as flyers and stuff, people would enjoy it. And having hours of time will make that possible.
I'm thinking that, since Blogger is such a godly awesome tool, I might put up PVU as well - this being my central blog, I'll be putting all links up here. So far nothing, but who knows? Perhaps in the future, there'll be DeviantArt and other Blogger links all over.
Ahh, tapping human potential... that's what Polyphasic Sleep is all about.
Anyway, it's 10:00 and Adult Swim is just coming on. (Oh, how I shall miss thee...) I'll bid the fair Internet adieu and go get some sleep. Lord knows I'll be wanting it later.
Anyway, I have no need to change the schedule, but unfortunately I'll be starting tomorrow without a nice cushion of extra sleep. (Me posting this at 10:00 probably says enough.) I'm glad, though, that I'll have the extra time. There are plenty of things I can do, including art, writing, clean the house, and the Parkview Underground.
Ah yes, the PVU. Since our school (Parkview) is such a shithole, even the school newspaper and student council are tools. Students are pissed, but they don't have anything better to do with their frustration than make small trouble. I figured if I wrote up an obscenely frank and scathing 'newspaper' and put it up as flyers and stuff, people would enjoy it. And having hours of time will make that possible.
I'm thinking that, since Blogger is such a godly awesome tool, I might put up PVU as well - this being my central blog, I'll be putting all links up here. So far nothing, but who knows? Perhaps in the future, there'll be DeviantArt and other Blogger links all over.
Ahh, tapping human potential... that's what Polyphasic Sleep is all about.
Anyway, it's 10:00 and Adult Swim is just coming on. (Oh, how I shall miss thee...) I'll bid the fair Internet adieu and go get some sleep. Lord knows I'll be wanting it later.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Delays
Okay, not much new has happened - just that a show choir competition would have been right in the way of things, so I decided to put off everything for like two days. So no, no news today, since I didn't even start. *sigh*
Thursday, February 15, 2007
The day before
Okay, so this is my blog. I am dashingly handsome, and currently on a valiant quest to find the limits of sleep deprivation and human fortitude. My quest is for Polyphasic Sleep.
Okay, so here's how it will go down: Polyphasic Sleep is a form of sleep in which the day's rest is broken into six 30-minute naps, evenly spaced throughout the day. Yes, that's a total of 3 hours sleep. I know. But it's doable, and some have even reduced to 20-minute naps, down to a meager 2 hours of sleep a day.
I'm not quite ready to go for 2 hours yet, but I know I'd like to try and Polysleep. Ever since I first heard my mother tell me "Time for bed," I knew that sleep was a useless enemy of productive activity. I've spent the rest of my life in at least some stage of sleep deprivation, including right now. But all that is going to change.
Tonight I will begin Polysleep by going to bed early and sleeping late - this, I hope, will give me a nice bank of sleep cushion to help ease myself into polysleep. After that, my total nap schedule will be:
3:00-3:30
6:00-6:30 (Just before school)
11:30-12:00 (Study hall before lunch)
4:00-4:30 (Just after school)
8:00-8:30
12:00-12:30
Well, that's how it's going to go down. Wish me luck.. and insomnia.
Okay, so here's how it will go down: Polyphasic Sleep is a form of sleep in which the day's rest is broken into six 30-minute naps, evenly spaced throughout the day. Yes, that's a total of 3 hours sleep. I know. But it's doable, and some have even reduced to 20-minute naps, down to a meager 2 hours of sleep a day.
I'm not quite ready to go for 2 hours yet, but I know I'd like to try and Polysleep. Ever since I first heard my mother tell me "Time for bed," I knew that sleep was a useless enemy of productive activity. I've spent the rest of my life in at least some stage of sleep deprivation, including right now. But all that is going to change.
Tonight I will begin Polysleep by going to bed early and sleeping late - this, I hope, will give me a nice bank of sleep cushion to help ease myself into polysleep. After that, my total nap schedule will be:
3:00-3:30
6:00-6:30 (Just before school)
11:30-12:00 (Study hall before lunch)
4:00-4:30 (Just after school)
8:00-8:30
12:00-12:30
Well, that's how it's going to go down. Wish me luck.. and insomnia.
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