# Anyone else pulling an all-nighter tonight? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832 "2008-06-05T03:10:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/1 "2008-06-05T03:10:29Z")
Hi all~ I figure I’d be much more likely to get a response if school was in (especially if it were close to exams), but I thought to ask anyway~ I’m working on a rush project—about a hundred or so pages of gobbledygook I need to make comprehensible and purdy by Friday. Two other unexpected reports came in this week, and my Ma is arriving tomorrow for the weekend (we’re taking her to our Thursday night class and then a drum circle on Saturday – go mom!), so I need to get through as much as possible to free up what time I can. So, anyone else out there in Caffeineachusetts? Rhythm (Course, given the nature of the night, I really shouldn’t be on the Dope, should I?) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/2 "2008-06-05T03:42:22Z")
I’m running some code overnight, but that’s not really the same thing, now is it? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/3 "2008-06-05T03:49:22Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] I’m running some code overnight, but that’s not really the same thing, now is it? [/QUOTE] Will it be you up all night or will it be your computer(s)? If not you, can your machine pass the Turing Test? ---
**Author:** ![exclamation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@exclamation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exclamation)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/4 "2008-06-05T03:53:16Z")
I’m planning on pulling an all-nighter tonight. It’s just past lunchtime and I know I should get it done ASAP, but I’ve got motivation issues. It’s already past the due date, it’s the end of semester for me, and this paper is only worth 10%. So easy to talk myself into just going for a nap now. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/5 "2008-06-05T03:58:48Z")
[QUOTE=Rhythmdvl] Will it be you up all night or will it be your computer(s)? If not you, can your machine pass the Turing Test? [/QUOTE] I’ll be turning in shortly. I don’t think the machine is quite capable of fooling anyone with regard to its personhood. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/6 "2008-06-05T04:07:20Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] I’ll be turning in shortly. I don’t think the machine is quite capable of fooling anyone with regard to its personhood. [/QUOTE] heh… you should read what I’m working on. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/7 "2008-06-05T04:10:11Z")
I’m staying up until the bad weather is off to my east. [It might be awhile.](http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=DMX) (link to NEXRAD radar) I hate it when the weatherman says “Oh swell” and “My goodness!” as he’s tracking tornadoes. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/8 "2008-06-05T04:18:51Z")
Today was the FIRST day of my new term, and I’ve already got papers assigned. ☹ I only got a week off. I need more! it’s summer! There’s gardening to do! ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/9 "2008-06-05T04:28:43Z")
I better make another pot of coffee! First, a “Don’t do anything today you can put off until tomorrow” poster for **exclamation!**. I never though I’d be doing this post college, but it’s a great skill to have… An ultra-quiet fan for **ultrafilter** so code can run but sleep can be attained… A Wizard of Oz DVD for **AuntiePam** , whose name I will forevermore be reading as AuntieEm… And a tall glass of Compost Tea for **levdrakon**. Those drafting papers… what’er’yer topics? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/10 "2008-06-05T04:36:17Z")
I just spent like 2 months of doing regular all-nighters. Where were you then, huh? HUH?! I’m off to bed. Neener 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![exclamation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@exclamation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exclamation)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/11 "2008-06-05T04:39:21Z")
Hahaha, thanks **Rhythmdvl**! My paper is a close study of an Ancient Egyptian artefact. I’ve decided to go with a fish shaped palette from the Predynastic era. It’s interesting, but I regret choosing Egyptian Arcaeology as a subject because I’m not going to pursue it at all after this semester. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/12 "2008-06-05T04:40:01Z")
I’ve got a third shift job with about thirty minutes worth of actual work to do in each eight-hour shift, so I’m up all night every night, this one being no exception. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/13 "2008-06-05T05:03:52Z")
Well, thank goodness I’m not at the major thesis stage, but I’ll be getting hit with weekly essays about such fascinating topics as network topologies as well as writing exciting narrative and process essays about IT topics that frankly, I don’t want to think about right now because I’ll want to gouge out my wrist veins with a rusty spoon. My wife is studying zoology and I’m so fucking jealous of the stuff she gets to study while hardly having to write at all. Her to me: “What are you doing this week?” “Writing two papers. What are you doing this week?” “Petting llamas and shoveling dung. Want some for the garden?” “I hate you.” ---
**Author:** ![Ducktail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Ducktail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ducktail)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/14 "2008-06-05T05:09:58Z")
I pulled an all-nighter and then a near-all-nighter (two hours of sleep) earlier this week to finish off a blanket I was making for someone. Tonight? I think not. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/15 "2008-06-05T05:11:22Z")
I just finished work at eleven-twenty, got home at ten to twelve, and now I just can’t get to sleep at _all._ _passes iced mocha to **Rhythmdvl** _ ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/16 "2008-06-05T05:11:59Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Well, thank goodness I’m not at the major thesis stage… [/QUOTE] Heh… I am. I’ll be up for a while yet. Energy balances aren’t working out right now. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/17 "2008-06-05T05:51:53Z")
[QUOTE=Rhythmdvl] I’m working on a rush project—about a hundred or so pages of gobbledygook I need to make comprehensible and purdy by Friday. [/QUOTE] A hundred pages? Seriously? Good luck with that. I’ve pounded out last-minute papers, but nothing that huge. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/18 "2008-06-05T05:58:55Z")
A very strange Circadian cycle ensures that I will be up all night. No caffeine needed. In grad school, when my thesis was due (and finals and oral defense), I stayed up for five days. Fifth Amendment as to what enabled this. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/19 "2008-06-05T06:05:42Z")
I’m going to be working at the same time as you guys, but I have the excuse that I’m on the other side of the world. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832/20 "2008-06-05T06:08:53Z")
Depending on how busy it is here tonight, I pull all-nighters most nights. Someone has to keep the lab open (damn people for bleeding to death at odd hours). So hi! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-pulling-an-all-nighter-tonight/451832.md?page=2)