Polyphasic Sleep, Day 29 – Friday, 4/7/2006
Wow, 4 WEEKS down! So, I decide to do 3 hours of core sleep. I am tired of the oversleeping/good night oscillations, and want to get on a path to fully hexaphasic napping. I link my 12:30 nap fairly soon after with a 3-hour core sleep. I feel pretty good when I get up, and finish packing for LA, shower, and take off for the train. The 8:49 train is the last that gets me to campus before my 10 AM class. I make it just in time, and only by sprinting a very loooong block with my laptop and suitcase in hand. I haven’t run like that in a while! It is 5 minutes before i can catch my breath on the train.
When I do, I realize that Thuy Le is also in the same car, so we catch up for the whole ride down to Palo Alto. I get off, and lug my suitcase on my bike over to lab. I drop the suitcase off there, then head over to class. After class I head over to the bookstore, pick up 3 books for the quarter, and then back to lab, where I have 20 minutes before I head to the train again and down to San Jose. No nap time!!
I get to the airport an hour before my flight, and after breezing through security I manage to get maybe 15 minutes of napping in on the floor of the airport before our plane starts to board. Once on the plane though, I nap HARD, sleeping for almost an hour. Not ideal, but ok considering the long period without a nap. I get to LA, and Jean picks me up. I nap a small amount in the car on the way to Ben Acker’s show at 7:30. The show is funny, and we go back to Bede and Oceana’s place afterward. There, Jean and I both nap for about 45 minutes in the guest room before re-joining the group. We all play a fun game of telephone, but with drawings and descriptions. Then Jef calls – he has driving down from San Francisco, and is at Jean’s. We finish up the game, and then drive back to Venice to meet Jef at 2 AM.
