I am so bad at checking / updating this blog.
It's largely because I feel like my liife is so normal and uneventful now. I'm approaching the 1/2 a year mark of my polyphasic sleeping. I'm still enjoying it. I'm finding I'm wasting a lot more of my extra hours lately, because I just am running out of things I want to do. That said, I am still working 40 hours a week, and taking 2 university courses, and playing about a gig a week with various musical groups, and I've starteed playing hockey about twice a week. So I guess considering how busy I'm keeping myself, I'm doing quite well.
I'm finding now that I have fallen into a somewhat variable pattern. I NEED my naps at 9am, and 2:30pm. I get extremely tired like 5 minutes before those. My evening nap is a little more variable. Sometime I'm not tired at all, and I skip it, and sleep from 12:30 to 5, and sometime I take it and sleep 2-5. Depends what else I need to get done, and what's going on around the house. The nice thing is I can seem to flip between those two schedules without any bad effects.
I'm also finding on some weekends, I like to "sleep in". I essentially just take an extra 30 minute nap whenever I feel like it, or extend a nap by an hour or so. I find usually it's my 9 am nap, as I've been up for awhile already, and not working, and thus somewhat getting bored of myself around the house. It's as much to kill time until my roomies are up to entertain me as it is for resting purposes.
I still very seldom feel tired. I still think I'm getting more productive hours in a day. I'm still loving it.
And that's another rare, major update.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
I have a blog!
and I realy suck at updating it.
It's been exactly 2 weeks now. I apologize.
Lately I've been busy though. It's hard to work for 40 hours a week, while attending two classes. Now that labs and assignments have started, I'm sinking a lot of time there too. Add my required weekly tv shows (Survivor, Beauty and the Geek, Heroes, the Office, My Name is Earl, Naruto) and I don't have a ton of time, even with my crazy sleep schedule.
I've also felt a little under the weather for the last week and a bit. I've been trying to get a bit more sleep than usual to help recover from that. There's been a bunch of bugs going around work though, so I'm still sitting in better shape than a lot of my co-workers. As a result though my core sleep is closer to 4.5 hours most nights now. Which kind of sucks, but I'm still down to about 5.5 hours of sleep a day, which does give me some more time than a normal sleep schedule. Hopefully I feel back up to 100% soon, and can drop back down to a 3 hour core.
New Radiohead album came out today. I've been enjoying it. And the Orangebox came out, which is a package deal of like 5 super awesome games. So I'll have to find some time to play through those... May be challenging.
Alas though, I need to get to work. I have to set up a test to run for a week straight, and need to confirm a feature works by the end of the day today. Sigh.
It's been exactly 2 weeks now. I apologize.
Lately I've been busy though. It's hard to work for 40 hours a week, while attending two classes. Now that labs and assignments have started, I'm sinking a lot of time there too. Add my required weekly tv shows (Survivor, Beauty and the Geek, Heroes, the Office, My Name is Earl, Naruto) and I don't have a ton of time, even with my crazy sleep schedule.
I've also felt a little under the weather for the last week and a bit. I've been trying to get a bit more sleep than usual to help recover from that. There's been a bunch of bugs going around work though, so I'm still sitting in better shape than a lot of my co-workers. As a result though my core sleep is closer to 4.5 hours most nights now. Which kind of sucks, but I'm still down to about 5.5 hours of sleep a day, which does give me some more time than a normal sleep schedule. Hopefully I feel back up to 100% soon, and can drop back down to a 3 hour core.
New Radiohead album came out today. I've been enjoying it. And the Orangebox came out, which is a package deal of like 5 super awesome games. So I'll have to find some time to play through those... May be challenging.
Alas though, I need to get to work. I have to set up a test to run for a week straight, and need to confirm a feature works by the end of the day today. Sigh.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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.
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.
Monday, September 17, 2007
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.
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.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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.
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.
Monday, September 10, 2007
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.
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.
Friday, September 7, 2007
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.
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.
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