Lament 3: Cry Hard With A Vengeance

[The Spartan]

I'm 34 and can still manage that.

With too much caffeine.

Barely.

Every once in a great while.

And I'm fucked up for a week after.

[The Spartan]

Used to be I was fucked for an half a day after...

Getting old sucks.

[Infinity Biscuit]

It wasn't so much a matter of being too tired or anything (that's always hit the next day anyway) but I was on edge and having random panic attacks constantly until I gave up and took a nap.

[Glass Fort MacLeod]

I just turned 35 a few days back and I can still sort of manage getting by on a few hours sleep for one or two days, although it really kills me in terms of awareness/effectiveness... its just that for the next 2-3 (or more) days after that I need to get much more sleep and I may even need to sleep longer than if I was sleeping regularly. Alternately I seem to be able to funciton more or less skipping one day if I can sleep two days consecutively after.

Other than that I regularly get by on about 4-6 hours of sleep a night, otherwise I oversleep. I don't even set clocks and my body seems to operate on thta pattern.

[Bakustra]

I tend to run on an eight-to-nine hour sleep cycle, though I occasionally snooze a bit during the day. I can go on three/four hours of sleep and still function, but not for more than a day in a row if I'm actually doing anything that requires manual dexterity.

edit: I mean, beyond lifting a fork or using a pen.

[The Spartan]

My normal sleep routine is between 7 and 8 hours.

It's just that I can get by, for a day (maybe two), on 4 hours a day. Though I'll be fucking miserable.

[evilsoup]

hahaha
old people

[Stofsk]

hahaha
old people

you'll get there too, one day

in the meantime get the fuck off my lawn

[evilsoup]

die young leave a pretty corpse

[timmy]

Screw all of you but Soup. And him*. I'm 31 and I'm all used up. That might have been due to living on four hours sleep a night day for five years, though.




*Is this correct? I just realised I don't know.

[evilsoup]

*Is this correct? I just realised I don't know.

It's weird when that happens, isn't it?

[Gands]

I'm 27 and I'm twenty kilos heavier than I was at this time last year.

Eugh.

[Oxymoron]

Shit, man. How did that happen ?

[Gands]

Postgrad work. I had to quit TKD to do more sitting and reading.

Add into tht stress induced appetites and... yeah. However, we did just join a gym down the road, so things should improve.

[The Spartan]

Screw all of you but Soup. And him*. I'm 31 and I'm all used up. That might have been due to living on four hours sleep a night day for five years, though.

I recommend a hearty cocaine addiction.

Nothing too excessive. Just a little bump once or twice a day to brighten up. Maybe use it to kick start your coffee.

[timmy]

There's an idea.

[timmy]

Even worse about getting older

The years of playing music too loud start to haunt you

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[The Spartan]

Don't forget all your old injuries popping back up to say hello!

[Infinity Biscuit]

The most common time for me to figure out that I should call somewhere to schedule an appointment seems to be about 5:03 PM

Oh well at least it's happening on days besides Friday now

[Gands]

It's been a good few weeks for me. Last week at uni the Sikh association of Australia set up a booth to meet people and educate. It was pretty awesome, I learned more than I would have had I just gone to a website, so I feel like a slightly better global citizen.

I've also spent the last two days at an academic conference. That was hella fun and inspiring.

Finally, teaching children to read/write is hella rewarding.

[The Spartan]

Had a largely normal day except for one thing. There was an accident at an intersection I have to go through every day involving a pickup truck and a motorcycle. One with a fatality.

They had not cleared the scene yet either. So, in addition to the cars involved and the responders who were working on the accident/directing traffic and their vehicles, there was one body not exactly covered by a sheet of some sort and an extremely distraught person who I presume was the pickup truck driver. Whether he's legally culpable or not I've no idea.

No one I know was involved nor was I harmed in any way. I was merely minorly inconvenienced and nothing more. Still, it left me feeling on edge. Disturbed a little. I dunno quite how to explain it, but there it is.

[Infinity Biscuit]

Seeing death and its consequences seems like a perfectly natural thing to be disturbed by. I mean, especially since you can see people who are being directly affected by it so it's not just a body but you see the direct human impact.

[The Spartan]

It's a first for me, believe it or not.

[Infinity Biscuit]

why does it seem as if the best decisions I make for myself are always preceded by "you know, fuck everything"

well I dunno if this is gonna be a good decision but after I said that I suddenly felt very good about it

[RogueIce]

die young leave a pretty corpse

Depends on how you buy it, though.

Speaking of corpses, it appears Dredd is on Netflix so I finally watched it. What an awesome movie that was and I want a Judge costume now.