# Up in the night... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930 "2008-03-03T09:00:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/1 "2008-03-03T09:00:18Z")
Grading, grading, grading. And you? ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/2 "2008-03-03T09:07:42Z")
Checking to see which 4-yr-old needs what and wondering if I really DO need to see a Doc re: these swollen glands of mine. Grading doesn’t sound like any _more_ fun, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/3 "2008-03-03T09:08:19Z")
Me? I just got home from Phoenix where I saw the Foo Fighters. It was excellent, except for the part where they didn’t play _Darling Nikki_, damn them. And now I’m going to bed- thank Og I took tomorrow off. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/4 "2008-03-03T09:20:29Z")
I might take the swollen glands. I have a test running on the school’s online system and it has been timing students out and kicking them off right and left in the middle of a 2-part online final exam. I spent much time tonight calming down upset/angry students and cutting and pasting their responses back into exams I had to clear in order to unstick them. Plus, I kept getting booted, too, so it’s been literally 12.5 hours of this so far. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/5 "2008-03-03T09:36:47Z")
Working on my character for the SDMB roleplaying thread. :o ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/6 "2008-03-03T09:45:07Z")
Well, it’s the middle of the day here and I am taking a personal day from work, just because! I am about to get my butt in gear and go to collect my daughter from MiL’s house, though. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/7 "2008-03-03T09:53:32Z")
Same thing I do every night, **susan**. I’m fighting insomnia. Pass me some of those papers, and I’ll be glad to help you grade them. (Of course, I should warn you, I’m the sort who will give bonus points for amusing answers, whether they’re right, or not.) ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/8 "2008-03-03T09:54:12Z")
Anticipating my birthday tomorrow. And unable to tear myself away from the SDMB because it is _so cool_. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/9 "2008-03-03T09:55:05Z")
I’ve just finished some reports, and it should be my bedtime now. But, as I had an afternoon kip, I’ll probably be awake a while longer yet. Good thing there’s the Internet when the choice of TV programmes is crap at this time of night! ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/10 "2008-03-03T09:59:24Z")
Middle of the day here. Desperately avoiding work and trying to skip lunch (so as not to further damage my waistline) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/11 "2008-03-03T10:04:02Z")
The alarm will go off in an hour and a half; not sure why I woke up. But now that I _am_ up, chances are I won’t get back to sleep. I have grading I meant to do yesterday, but I’m catching a cold. Really felt like dogshit for awhile there. Dayquil to the rescue! Spring break…T minus two weeks and counting. Anybody see a weekend go by here? I could have sworn there was one on my calendar. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/12 "2008-03-03T10:12:12Z")
Sitting here at work, babysitting our network. Thankfully, not much happening with it right now so as usual, I’m reading the Dope. I’ve been a member here just about as long as I’ve been working mid shifts. So does the SDMB enable me to continue working mids without going insane? Or do I keep working mids so I can read the SDMB most nights? I think it’s a little of both. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/13 "2008-03-03T10:15:57Z")
I’m at work, alternating between the Dope and a book I’m reading. Happy Birthday, brujaja ! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/14 "2008-03-03T11:31:57Z")
It’s the middle of the night, I am here at work keeping the city safe. (Clearly- I am working hard). I also am checking my phone religiously, should I receive a text from my going to burst any day now wife indicating that she has, in fact, burst and I need to haul my ass home. (This is to avoid finding out because she, in fact, called for an ambulance the the ambulance dispatchers have to tell me to haul my ass home.) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/15 "2008-03-03T21:52:30Z")
Posting about Ellen Page’s tits. I \*really \*need to lay off the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/16 "2008-03-03T22:07:06Z")
Somehow, I’m not surprised someone could open a thread at 4:00am and have this many responses. Hope you guys got some sleep. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/17 "2008-03-04T04:15:40Z")
**Update:** I’ve been grading or teaching pretty much since I checked in last. About 5 hours’ sleep. The problem is that the system is still not working, so I’ve now fielded perhaps 200 “Oh, no! It went blank on me!” e-mails from frantic students that are absolutely justified. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2008, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/18 "2008-03-04T06:45:55Z")
Vampire here. Seriously, I’m nocturnal, always have been. **susan** , send them papers over to me. I have the same principles as **Otaku** though. **The Tof** , keep up the good work! And Best Wishes! ---
**Author:** ![Maui\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Maui\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maui_Lion)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/19 "2008-03-04T06:48:58Z")
8:48 PM in Hawaii. Closing up at work and getting ready to head home. Plus I’m hungry. What to eat late at night that won’t give me crazy dreams? Then again crazy dreams can be fun. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930/20 "2008-03-04T07:14:01Z")
Aww. I wish I had a loco moco right this minute. I’m watching the people who now have 40 minutes before deadline to do a 4-hour exam log on and write nonsense. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-night/439930.md?page=2)