Things You Shouldn't Try To Do When Sleep-Deprived

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1. Run up stairs (especially if doing something unrelated with hands/eyes)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

0. Post to Ilx (let's get that out of the way)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

2. Take driving test.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

3. Flambé

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

4. write important draft chapters of your honours thesis which your supervisor is liable to crucify

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

5. speak to your honours supervisor about crappy draft chapters

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

6. drive from hoboken, nj to albany, ny, and then back 8 hours later.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

7. attempt to translate plato (nothing dangerous can occur, it just doesn't really work out successfully)

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 21 September 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

8. write an essay on which 30 percent of your grade depends.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 21 September 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

9. go on crucial 3rd date w/person you are perhaps a tiny bit more interested in than is strictly necessary or necessarily reciprocated at this stage

― xero (xero), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

10. attempt cohesive arguments of any sort.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

4. write important draft chapters of your honours thesis which your supervisor is liable to crucify

I constantly do this!

11. Attempt multi-tasking.
12. Contemplate all the woes in the/your world. It will only end in tears.
13. Make impulse decisions.

Things you SHOULD do when sleep-deprived:

1. Attempt to sleep, even a nap. You feel a lot better.

― salexandra (salexander), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

14. read VALIS.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

15. try to drive a rocket-powered dragster at 300mph.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

16. Derive Schrodingers equation from first principles

― badg (badg), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

17. have a wank wearing a studded glove

― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm fairly sure you shouldn't attempt that at any time.
Although I suspect the only time you might consider it is when sleep deprived.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

drive at 300mph in a rocket powered car

― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

18. Let kit check this thread for duplication.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

OTM

― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

19. more speed or coke (although you will anyway)

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

20. Redefine the relationship.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

21. work. wtf am i doing?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

20 OTM

22. Be in a meeting.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

20. try to do headstands. (sometimes when i'm really exhausted, i notice that i just tried to do a headstand, and it didn't work. i never do this when i'm well rested. anyone else do this?)

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

whoa! xpost. 23.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

24. Attempt to mix audio for a live regional TV newscast. I'm pretty sure they still talk about me at that station.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

25. the last year of my life to thread.

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

# 9: Xero is a genius. Well, at least I can sympathize. I'm funny! I'm feeling drained! I'm acting weird! I should just go home...

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, otm

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, thanks.

26. draw ANY kind of conclusion about the outcome of #9, because you might be pleasantly SHOCKED OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND by a totally unexpected communique the following evening

― xero (xero), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

#9 works even if the person is interested

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, #9's still valid, no question. Just wanted to add another item to the list of things not to do when sleep-deprived.

― xero (xero), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

PRODUCE THE COMMUNIQUE

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

No. Sorry. You'll just have to take my word for it. :)

― xero (xero), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

SHAVE

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

28. Live

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

29. Stand near edge of crowded subway platform in extreme mid-summer heat and lean out to see if that sound you hear really is an uptown 2 train approaching

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

join a hand-on-car contest.

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 29 September 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

31. Update your resume.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 29 September 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

32. shit in one bag and eat out of another

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 29 September 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

33. attempt to masturbate in your living room when your roommate is coming home sometime later that day

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Friday, 29 September 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

attend a meeting :(

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

guys i am in trouble here, i cannot stay awake to save my life

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Is there a room where you can go take a quick nap? (or perhaps just go home)

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

no and no

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

we have two new people here who need help for every little thing, tying their shoes, picking their nose - i write up five-point plans for these activities - if i left god knows if they'd remember to breathe

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

so instead i'm like "snrgh.. huh? oh yeah, let me call him for you" and then i rattle off insane nonsense on the phone and flash them a wicked grin as if i'm aware of everything i just said, know that it sounds like the babbling of a nutter, and somehow intended it all as a joke that they'll understand once they've had a few weeks on the job

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I am so scared of sleep deprivation, it turns me whacko.

Three hours to go, Tracer. Go to company sick bay and ask for 40 winks of liedown? I know your workplace has that kind of facility there.

― suzy, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

34. ass play of any kind.

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

36. Respond to e-mail from ppl you don't like

― Maria :D, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

dying here

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

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