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02 April 2006

I don't like all-nighters. No sir.

post by: killdevil at: 21:34 | 15 comments

killdevil: I'm doing one, too! Let's be miserable together!

posted by gaspode 02 April | 21:36

I've got a major milestone on a project due tomorrow. Right now I'm looking balefully at the massive Dunkin Donuts coffee I bought a few minutes ago.

posted by killdevil 02 April | 21:37

What are you working on, Gaspode?

posted by killdevil 02 April | 21:40

I have to do a presentation (a quite big important one) at 10am tomorrow morning. I started at, um, 7pm?

About to go fill a french press. sigh.

posted by gaspode 02 April | 21:41

good old power point.

posted by gaspode 02 April | 21:42

*looks pityingly at both*

I'm too stinking old to do that anymore. I'm worthless after about ten thirty or so.

posted by bunnyfire 02 April | 22:00

the sad thing is: me too, usually, bunnyfire. don't know why I do this to myself.

posted by gaspode 02 April | 22:06

Good luck, you two. I'll just be up all night with my insomnia.

posted by jrossi4r 02 April | 22:48

so what you're saying, jrossi, is I could send you a few spreadsheets, a few graphs...? you could make them look pretty for me? :)

that'd send you to sleep!

posted by gaspode 02 April | 22:53

Spreadsheets and graphs are really more the mister's balliwick, gaspode. Unfortunately, so is sleeping. I'm in charge of sending thank you notes and staying up all night to protect the family from ninjas.

posted by jrossi4r 02 April | 23:04

at least the baseball is delayed, so that is keeping me company here in the living room. gah.

posted by gaspode 02 April | 23:11

wish I could help gaspode and killdevil.
I know nothing of spreadsheets but them graphs, ohhh! graphs! Take small power breaks (every hr or so). Splash cold water in your face and neck. It helps during my all-nighters.

But then again I vastly prefer to work at night...

posted by carmina 02 April | 23:16

Oh the baseball will put you right to sleep! That's its job! Especially if you listen to the game on the radio while sipping a beer in the hammock. So try to avoid that.

posted by jrossi4r 02 April | 23:27

bunnyfire & gaspy I peter out before you both. Forever an up-&-down-with-the-sun type.

Whenever I pulled all nighters years ago, the next day I always felt like my nerve endings were overly sensitive. Not the emotional ones, the sensing ones. Like things were brighter and louder even though they weren't really.

posted by chewatadistance 03 April | 10:38

If you don't like all-nighters, you aren't doing it right.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 03 April | 11:51

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