Friday, November 23, 2007

Crazy!

I had my first odd encounter over this blog the other day at school. There's a friend in one of my comp sci courses whom I see very seldom, and haven't really talked to in quite some time. We're working together on a project now. Anyway, we were trying to determine when would be a good time to work on it, and I brought up that I usually have lots of time, because I sleep weird, and he said oh yeah, I've read about that on your blog. Yay! People are stumbling here somehow. His brother apparently found it, and asked if he knew me, since I'm a jazz guy in Saskatoon, and the community here isn't too huge, and somewhat close knit. Started me wondering though. I've seen all my traffic numbers, and they definitely aren't anything special, so I've always just assumed it was largely my family, and a couple close friends, who are trying to keep tabs on me, since I never talk to my family.

Now I'm starting to wonder how many people from Saskatoon who don't know me have read this, or heard about it via some other people. Am I going to start having a reputation as the crazy guy who sleeps weird that some people don't know what I look like? Can I work up to Urban myth status? That has quickly become one of my goals. To become an urban myth. Not sure how I'm going to accomplish it though... Suggestions are welcome.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

party

Wow, due to just sheer coincidence, my 200th day of polyphasic sleeping (Which is November 29th) also is the last day of classes for me! So I might have to have a bit of fun that day. It's also (I think) the day after a code release, so I may have a lot of good things to celebrate.

My sleep schedule is getting almost back on schedule now. I do have a sinus infection, from a complication from my wisdom teeth extraction. All these medical related things make me feel more tired, which means I sleep more. However, more is still only about 5 or 6 hours. Immediately after the surgery I had a couple days of a long 8 hour sleep. That was odd. I felt like there was just no time during the day to get anything done.

I also need to move all my sleeping things inside. It's starting to get cooler outside. Below freezing, and it's sure hard to jump out of my bed when after jumping out of bed I can suddenly cut bread with my nipples. I just want to stay huddled in my warm sleeping bag. I'll likely get to that tommorrow, or the day after. I need a good system to move things around. Maybe some good habits about packing up my sleeping bag, and so forth.

Maybe I'll have to fire an email to PureDoxyk to ask her what she does in the winter. I think she lives somewhere where the climate gets a little chilly. With the gas prices too, it's just not economically feasible to run my car to warm it up. I'll let you know what I find out / try.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Ok

Time to get in some better habits over this blog. I still think it's valuable to me, to get some of my notes down somewhere, and just to vent a little. Time for another big update.

PureDoxyk, one of the longest Everyman sleepers I know of, had a good post on her blog today. Talking about essentially don't give advice if you aren't qualified to do so. I think it is a very true complaint, and one I think really plagues Polyphasic sleeping. I'll leave the rest of the discussion to her arguements.

I have now been polyphasic for about 185 days? I still don't like giving out a ton of advice, as I don't think my experience is really going to be a representation of everyones experience. We all sleep differently, we all live differently, and just because something works for me, doesn't mean it works for everyman (what a bad pun).

So lately my schedule has been a mess. I got my wisdom teeth pulled on Thursday, after writting my last midterm. Not a good day, although I did get 100% on that midterm, so I can't complain too much. I think that was my widsom teeth's last shot, trying to prove that they actual did something. Back to crappy 50%'s from here on out, without those teeth. I've been really weak on my schedule enforcement, knowing that I should be a little messed up due to the drugs, and so on and so forth, but I think I'm going to have to crack down right away here. Yesterday for instance, I woke up at 5, like normal, after a 4.5 hour core, which is a little long, had a 30 min nap around 9, like normal, was exhausted at my class, so I had a 1.5 hour nap from 1-2:30, got back to work, and went to bed around 9:30, and slept until 5. I woke up once or twice, but I didn't have any painkillers nearby, so I went back to sleep to try and get rid of the pain.

I'll likely let this crappy schedule keep up for the rest of the week, and try to push everything back to my normal come the weekend. Hopefully by then I'm more healed up, and in less pain. I might have to resort to a bit of caffiene to help with that too.

SO back to my plans for this blog. One of the reasons I don't post very often is I feel like there's nothing interesting to post about. By now, I have enough logs of my sleeping stuff to amuse some people. There's a 100 day summary too for people who don't want to read too far back. Now's it's just part of a normal routine. I'll have to figure something out.