I was just typing in a response on the BBQ forum, when I heard Futurama come on, and suddenly I realized that I have been sitting here since oh, about 2:00 a. m. Let’s see, that makes it about 17 hours, with no sleep and no food except for about 8 Dr. Peppers. Makes it almost as bad as the time I finished an entire game of X-com in one sitting. And yet, the first thing it occcurred to me to do is *post a new message about how long I have been reading and posting messages on the forum *.
My questions:
How much of a geek am I, to spend 17 hours sitting at my computer, reading and writing to a message board?
What does it mean that I felt compelled to post a new message after realizing what a ridiculously long time I’ve been at this? Am I insane? Sleep-deprived? Obsessed?
Is there a more useless way to spend your weekend?
Would I be justified in calling in sick tomorrow? (I have 112 sick days accumulated, so I have one to spare.)
Can anyone beat 17 hours in one stretch? Oops, make that 17 1/2 hours?
Is there anything more pathetic than spending 17 1/2 hours on message boards, skipping food and sleep, and then boasting about it as if it were some kind of accomplishment (see question 5)?
Would it be presumptuous to declare myself, to paraphrase James Cameron (who was himself quoting Homer Simpson) I’m the king of the message board!?
Oops. Almost 18 hours now. I think I may be delirious, but then if you are delirious, do you know you’re delirious? Wouldn’t the fact that you suspect that you’re delirious prove that you are actually coherent?
I think I’ll try to take a stab at your questions…
Yes, you’re a geek, but that’s good! I’m a geek too! What geek level are you at? I’m not sure, I don’t have enough information about you to judge that. You’re probably not as geeky as I am if that helps any.
Lack of anything else better to do is my guess.
There is definitely more useless ways to spend a weekend. By posting there is a possibility you are actually giving someone helpful information or getting helpful information yourself (by reading what others post). Watching tv is more useless because no one really benefits.
Call in sick! Falling asleep while on the job would be BAD. So would mouthing off to the boss (if you’re like me, you will get really bitchy after about 24 hours of being awake). There is also the chance you will fall asleep while driving your car, risking that for one day of work isn’t worth it.
42 hours. Don’t try it though, staying up that long w/o any naps is really bad for you and your brain. I heard that it kills brain cells.
More pathetic…lets see here…uhhh…oh yeah…how about being graduated from high school for almost a year and not going to college, never having had a job yet, no drivers license b/c of laziness, taking showers only when forced by your parents. I have a relative that is in the process of doing nothing with their life. By my example do you think they’re doing pretty good at it?
King of the message board? nope…king of looney land maybe…oh wait…NOPE…I AM THE KING OF LOONEY LAND, or is it rambling land?
That question, like my aunt, is relative.
Good, let 'em eat yer toe nails, that saves you the trouble of having to trim the damn things. Don’t ya just hate when you let yerself go and your toe nails grow to 20 inches long and when you finally cut 'em they fly up and jab you in your eye? yowza.
Tonight I’m staying up all night b/c I hafta go to CSCC (Columbus State Community College) early and I don’t wanna go w/o getting breakfast and if I go to sleep I won’t wake up in time to get it so I will just stay up and go. If anyone on this board goes to that college you will know who I am immediately, I’m the one trying to drive their car into the Aquinas Hall building because of being too tired to walk up the steps and too impatient to take the slow elevator. Wow, my rambling is actually getting worse and worse. By this posting you can probably tell that I’m getting weird and tired and I ramble a lot and my writing skills deteriorate rapidly. So duz mi spel-eng.
On a final note, I think I’ll just say that one reason I believe I try to stay up for a long time is that its a control thing. That and I’m a pig who wants breakfast but can’t get up early enough (I’d rather sleep).
Earlier in my post I told you that driving while having stayed up a long time is dangerous and then I told you that I’m staying up a long time and then driving to school. Well, its ok for me to because I’m a trained professional at being a paranoid, sleep deprived, maniac.
And on an actual FINAL note…I’m going to McDonalds for breakfast, an egg mcmuffin and hashbrown is probably what I’ll get. MMMM…cheese paper…
I lied, something else to think about, while in high school psych class I learned about how soldiers while under extreme amounts of stress (while under enemy fire) were able to stay awake for days at a time. Makes my 42 hours look like chicken shit.
Woo hoo…The Game is coming on TNT right now. ya hooooo.
Just kidding. We’ve all done it before. Maybe not that bad, but there’s been times I got off work at 1 am, and had class at 11 am, and ‘forgot’ to sleep. Or go to class. Or shower before work that night (at 10 pm).
It’s like nicotine coated crack, wrapped in a caffeine embedded sugar pill, this board is.
