*sniff* *sniff* Slider, you STINK.
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ferenThat was me at around 12:30 this afternoon. Good lord was I punch-drunk. I made it into the office on time this morning, and spent the next fifteen or twenty minutes trying to get ahold of the campus. Naturally, that wasn't going off to plan. Finally I managed to get ahold of them, and we spent the next two hours working through everything.
I rediscovered a forgotten (or perhaps suppressed) fact about our office: from 7 PM until 7 am there is no HVAC running on our floor. The office only runs it on normal business hours and if we want anything beyond those hours we have to pay some extravagant price like $60/hr for off-peak HVAC. So, within a very short amount of time I found myself quickly stewing in my own juices. I discovered that alas, it is not possible for me to climb out of my own skin. God, I was ripe after three and a half hours of that. I blame all the Sun Microsystems equipment we have running in my neck of the cubical warren.
So around 1 PM I was finally able to extract myself. Driving home required me to turn on the AC to keep the air cold enough so that it might help keep me awake. I stopped at KFC, got some of their popcorn chicken, came home and had "lunch." I also watched The Siege, which was damn depressing and unnerving to watch in today's day and age.
Once the movie was over (around 3 or 3:30ish) I was feeling not only groggy, as I had been for the last 6 hours, but ready to sleep. So sleep I did. I'm glad, because at 7:30 I woke up and felt much better. I hope I can sleep properly tonight, though.
I rediscovered a forgotten (or perhaps suppressed) fact about our office: from 7 PM until 7 am there is no HVAC running on our floor. The office only runs it on normal business hours and if we want anything beyond those hours we have to pay some extravagant price like $60/hr for off-peak HVAC. So, within a very short amount of time I found myself quickly stewing in my own juices. I discovered that alas, it is not possible for me to climb out of my own skin. God, I was ripe after three and a half hours of that. I blame all the Sun Microsystems equipment we have running in my neck of the cubical warren.
So around 1 PM I was finally able to extract myself. Driving home required me to turn on the AC to keep the air cold enough so that it might help keep me awake. I stopped at KFC, got some of their popcorn chicken, came home and had "lunch." I also watched The Siege, which was damn depressing and unnerving to watch in today's day and age.
Once the movie was over (around 3 or 3:30ish) I was feeling not only groggy, as I had been for the last 6 hours, but ready to sleep. So sleep I did. I'm glad, because at 7:30 I woke up and felt much better. I hope I can sleep properly tonight, though.
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Re: 130 weeks?!
Date: 2002-06-19 05:24 am (UTC)The saving grace was the wonder that was Morning Crew. Jen Z., Jeff B., Mikey C. and I were a team to be reckoned with. We all got along splendidly and actually wanted to help each other whenever we could. Plus, somebody coined the phrase "Monday Mornings Mean McDonald's", where I would make a Mickey D's run every Monday at 8:05 for everyone. We found ways to make it meaningful and less of a chore, before Mikey left and Jeff died, anyway.
His body had a chance to acclimate itself to the schedule.
But, see, that's the problem. When your schedule is Monday 4:30-13:00, Tue-Fri 8:30-17:00 you never acclimate to it, not really.
Basically, it was snaf as close to 10p as possible on Sunday, fight sleep in tape rolling from 6:30-7a and take a 2hr nap on Monday afternoon, slog through Tuesday, and take a 2hr nap on Wednesday right after work. Ponder how that screws with your body clock for a little while! I was perpetually playing catch-up to recover the minimum amount of sleep to stay functional.
Although, anyone who says that your body isn't capable of discovering how to operate on a 7-day schedule is wrong, because when I left that schedule, I was still waking up at o'dark-thirty on Mondays for about a month afterward. I'm not saying it's good for you, or that it should be that way, but I'm saying it really does happen.