Day 136

Ugh, I suck at updating.
One of my favourite webcomics did a strip on odd sleeping habits. It's not my sleep schedule, but suggests one that may work for some people who like trying to mess with their sleep schedule. It's Here.
Nothing really too big to report. I've been busy lately with school assignments, and work. I don't know how I used to do this much stuff, and have time for everything, when I slept normally. Even with the couple extra hours a day, I'm not getting everything accomplished I want to.
Sleep-wise, I've been finding some evening I just can't get away for my 8:30ish nap. I had a dinner on Monday that I didn't get home from until close to 10, and last night I didn't have time to catch a nap either. I was rreasonably tired, just an opportunity never presented itself. I've been dealing with those days by crashing around 12:30, and sleeping until 5, instead of 2am. It seems to be working ok, but I'm losing some of my awake active time. For the record though, any extension of my core seems to need to be in bunches of 90 minutes. Anything else just makes me tired. Those results are close to what some others have found too.
But I should get to work, I have some large bugs I'd like to fix here before anyone comes into the office. One of the best times of the day to accomplish things.

Day 127

So I had a rough weekend.
My nap that happens at 8:30pmish now is bad. i'm finding when I eat late, which is most of the time, I'm eating just before that nap, which isn't very good. It also makes me sleep. It's really hard to get up from that nap, and this weekend I laid down for that nap twice, and woke up an hour later, almost 10 ish, which really throws off a lot of my weekend plans.
I'm going to have to experiment this week to see how I can tweak things to still work with school, but make that evening nap a little easier. Maybe it's as easy as trying to nap before eating. That's likely my first change. that will likely move the nap a little earlier too, closer to 5 or 6.

Currently discussing a ski trip with Kyro from GnoSchitt, I haven't travelled with him before, and he hasn't worked with me since I started this odd sleep schedule. I wonder if he's aware of what he might be getting into by thinking about travelling with me. I hope wherever we end up staying has some sort of all night lounge? or at least a space I can sit and play DS without having to worry about waking him up. Should be fun though.

Day 121

Hello!
So this morning, in about 20 minutes time, I'll be doing my interview on CBC radio. To anticipate that traffic boost, I would just like to say welcome. If you are interested in learning about my first 100 days, read this. That link is also present on my sidebar, under polyphasic links, so that once this post gets buried a bit more, you can still easily find my first 100 day summary. I also recommend most of those links for anyone wanting to do more research on Polyphasic sleeping. I do need to update it, as I think some of my links are going to people who have given up on their attempts. Maybe those are still valuable resources too, I'm not sure.

As per usual, if there are any questions, or anything, feel free to leave a comment, or email me, at chkurz (at) gmail (dot) com.

Day 120

Hurray! 120 days of my odd sleep schedule.

I was contacted today by CBC news. Apparently they try to match some of the stories of the Morning Show, and I might be doing a TV spot Tuesday night, on the 6pm news. I'll let you know tom morrow if that's happening or not. We still need to work out some times to actually do it. Hopefully I can slot it in before returning to work after class.

Of course it won't be as good as the awesome video the Ryan made to start this whole media parade. I'm glad people find my life interesting enough to talk to me. Maybe I should start a class or something. "How to Change to Polyphasic Sleeping" or "Step One in Becoming a Vampire: Turning Nocturnal". I think the only class I could stand teaching is one where I could sleep for 20 minutes during it, as a teacher, and have that be expected. Maybe I'll pitch that to the university.

On a sleeping note: Everything is still great. I felt a little under the weather on the weekend, and as a result, have one or two naps that went a little longer. I'm feeling much better now though, so hopefully it was just a very short lived illness. I'm a little behind on my walks. I haven't had a good long walk in almost a week now. So tonight, I'ma walking baby!

Also, I would just like to say, Roomie R has proven yet again that we can't leave him alone with anything that cooks without supervision. He microwaved some hot dogs into a lot of black smoke, a horrible horrible lingering smell, and two chunks of charcoal. I didn't think a microwave could make charcoal like that. I was proven wrong. On a side note, our new microwave is pretty nice, and it has a dial, so he can't screw up anymore. Never expected to have to make our house him-proof.

Radio coverage

So I just got off the phone with the associate producer for CBC radio's morning show with Sheila Coles. They are interested in interviewing me on the morning show, so if you're interested in hearing me talk about polyphasic sleeping, tune into CBC radio one, Tuesday morning, around 7:45 am. I do believe they have a web stream too, for anyone who is located further away.

My adaptation for school has been going reasonably well. I missed a nap before classes yesterday, just due to a meeting dragging on a bit, and uncertainty when buses run and such. I had to resort to a little caffeine. No ill effects from that though. It was a little surprising how much that woke me up though. Since I have so little caffiene now, it hits me quicker and harder it seems when I do have it.

Day 116

Today is my first actual day of classes. I'm here at work, early, getting some stuff done, so I can be gone through most of the core part of the day. I'm somewhat excited. My adjustments to my sleep schedule seem to be going very well. I'm now somewhat adjusted to 2-5am core, with naps around 9am, 2:30pm and 9pm. I might move my core back another hour yet. Haven't decided.

So this video I had made about my sleeping for the Edmonton Journal seems to be making me more popular. The traffic here on my blog has increased. It's not a huge jump (well it was the day the video went live), but it is noticable. The more apparent difference though is just recpetion from the media. I've got a preliminary meting with a program director from CBC radio for an interview. We'll see how that pans out, and there is a journalist from Ontario who is also expressing interest in an interview. As per usual, I'll keep you updated with how those pan out. I knew when I started this I was reasonably unique, but I was not expecting as many people to show interest in it as they have. I'm glad that people find it interesting.

But I should get to work. Stay tuned for the next update.

plug

I thought I would try to help out a little here.

My grandmother, who is 92 now, is participating in the Terry Fox Fundraiser for Cancer. This is her 14th year walking for cancer, she thinks. She has been the oldest participant for the last 4 years, again, she thinks. She has also lost 2 sister, a brother, a brother-in-law, and her husband, my grandfather, to cancer. One of my cousins has set up a online based donation form, as our family is rather large, and spread out. It's located Here. If you are interested in donating, my whole family would appreciate it. Her goal is a very reasonable $500, so I'd like to see that get blown out of the water.

Back to regularly scheduled blogging,
It's just after lunch, and I am tired. I have definitely not made the adjustment to my new schedule yet. I did get to finish a whole bunch of errands on campus today. My nap around 9am went great too, I had a good nap. Hopefully I crash real good for my 2:30 nap too, as that will help a lot for adjusting my schedule.

But I should get back to work, thanks for your time.

School is Starting

I spent the weekend adjusting my schedule, as I have classes starting on Thursday, and my previous schedule was not going to work with my new time constraints. I have revised my schedule to work. I've started adjusting to it, but I'm not quite there yet. Hopefully come Thursday, I'll be fully adjusted. I now sleep a core sleep from 2am to 5am, with my 3 naps at 9am, 2:30 pm, and 9pm. At least that's the plan. The only nap that can really change around at all is the 9pm one. Everything else I'm pretty stuck with due to the timing of my classes, and what I'll have to do to get some hours in at work.
But short post. I have too many things I need to get done before work here, and I'm hoping to get to work early too.