Polyphasic Sleep, Day 34 – Wednesday, 4/12/2006
Ok, so I slept until 7 AM. The last 2 nights. And 12 hours in one day in LA. That doesn’t mean I’m giving up on this thing! Do you take me for some flighty monophasic grad student posing as a polyphasic man of the world?! But I admit, it is daunting to think about getting back on the schedule. The only was to do this is … Full Force. I’m calling out the big guns!
After getting to campus at 9:30, I hit my 10 AM class, and then nap at noon. After that, I enlist the aid of my fellow grad students, and borrow a copy of Blizzard’s “Worlds of Warcraft” (Wow), a first-person role-playing adventure game for the PC/Mac. I need something to make me get out of bed after my midnight, and 4 AM naps. So far just the desire to be polyphasic hasn’t been enough, especially after this past weekend. Hopefully having a character in the game ready to go, in the middle of high adventure will be the crutch I need to jam myself back onto this schedule. I install the game, and play it for an hour on the train ride home. This gets my character going, so that I will have something to continue when I wake up late-night.
Tonight we are at the Soap Factory for a Passover seder put on by Stephen. It starts at 7:30, and I quietly disappear at 8:30 for my nap, just after dinner. It’s a mediocre nap, but a sleep nonetheless. I come back out and the seder finishes up in grand fashion. We finish up socializing, and I get home at 10:30. I watch TV and start playing some WoW. At midnight I set my alarm in the dining room, and leave the lights on in there, and sleep on the couch with the lights off in the living room. Hopefully this will allow me to sleep well, but be woken up by the alarm in the next room and the lights on in there will help keep me from re-sleeping. Plus, I will have my game on my laptop screen, waiting for me to continue!
Stephanie said,
April 14, 2006 at 4:30 pm
hehehe.. haaa! now this sounds like a productive turn!