# Up Late? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 1999, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235 "1999-08-29T06:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EnigmaOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EnigmaOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnigmaOne)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/21 "1999-08-30T10:03:00Z")
Sleep well. * * * – **Kalél** (The Original **EnigmaOne** ) _Common ¢ for all ages._ ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/22 "1999-08-30T10:23:00Z")
Oh, thanks, E. ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/23 "1999-08-30T11:46:00Z")
Um, which apartment was this? Nevermind, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me. 😉 * * * One beer is less than two beers. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/24 "2001-06-26T06:50:46Z")
It doesn’t take much to keep me out of bed at night. I sort of tend toward nightmares and insomnia anyway. I’m up late because of an arguement. (I should have been above it and and let it roll off like water off a ducks back. But I didn’t I took offense at someone’s rude behavior and lashed out verbally. Wish I hadn’t, I wouldn’t feel so bad now.) Oh and I’m waiting on the laundry and I had too much Dr. Pepper. Anyone else out there? Ever the insomniac, Abby ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/25 "2001-06-26T06:56:14Z")
I work nights. By the time I get home, it’s usually past 2 am. So I come online, check my mail, chat with Rashad and Dave (they’re usually up too…), and check the boards. I go to bed around 5 or so. I sleep all day, and go back to work at 4. It’s a vicious cycle… Tonights my night off, but I’m used to being up this late. It’s my routine. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/26 "2001-06-26T07:05:02Z")
Late? It’s a bit after 5pm _tomorrow_. This is when us Australians and Kiwis come out to play! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/27 "2001-06-26T07:12:52Z")
Yep, it’s arsenic hour around here. Mr P just announced he was going out at 6pm (well I knew he was going out but I thought it would be much later. Like after the sprogs are fed later ). Instead of walk out the door just as all hell breaks loose later… It’s been the day from hell but I think that finally after a month of stuff ups I might just have access to my credit card and my savings account again. Yay! Nothing like banks to make life fun. I got my credit card back after leaving it at the supermarket. It’s been a fabulous day I tellya! Now all I have to do is figure out why the computer ate a bit of my assignment and post it to my tutor. Abby, it’s OK to start new threads dear :). ---
**Author:** ![deepbluesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@deepbluesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deepbluesea)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/28 "2001-06-26T09:29:16Z")
I’m up. I’m always up. At night, that is. I think my Circadian rhythm is broken. Anyone know how I can call tech support? Or, failing that, where I can buy a replacement? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/29 "2001-06-26T10:29:53Z")
Up late? I’m up EARLY! Up at 5-ish, check the on-line papers, ICQ with a couple of people and then of to work. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diane \* > **This thread is to the night owls.** Some of us owls are day owls (Burrowing Owls are!) ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/30 "2001-06-26T10:44:28Z")
**Pammipoo** dear, you don’t work nights, you work evenings 😉 I work overnight, every night, and have for the past 2 years. I start at midnight, and crawl into bed around 10 am. Of course, that means I’m skipping work when I’m typing these messages 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/31 "2001-06-26T10:51:29Z")
Just a little suggestion, **Abby** - no-one will shout at you if you start a new thread 😉 It’s good to not start endless threads about the same thing, but you _are_ allowed to start a shiny new one occasionally. Fran ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/32 "2001-06-29T08:22:44Z")
i work midnights, and this time is when it is my turn to use the computer and go online anyway. but i am off tonight, and this was before i discovered the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/33 "2001-06-29T09:01:24Z")
2 AM here in Palm Springs, still about 100 degrees out. My mind races sometimes (yes, I know about the medications for that one). I have had insomnia for at least 20 years. It is a terrible curse to know that night after night will be just like this. I don’t do alcohol, caffeine or drugs. I exercise. Thursday I went to the dentist, so I will blame tonight on that. The last time I slept through the night was about a year ago, after I had my gall bladder surgery. I used to work night shift when I graduated from nursing school, maybe I am stuck in this black hole forever. Sorry, wrong bulletin board…I think this post goes over to the depression board down the hall. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235/34 "2001-06-29T09:46:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pammipoo \* > \*\*I work nights. By the time I get home, it’s usually past 2 am. So I come online, check my mail, chat with Rashad and Dave (they’re usually up too…), and check the boards. I go to bed around 5 or so. I sleep all day, and go back to work at 4. It’s a vicious cycle… > > \*\* You work nights and get home by 2 AM? I work nights. I don’t get home till 9 AM. I would sleep during the day, if I slept. **spooje** only posts at night. BTW, it still the middle of the night here on the West Coast. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-late/7235.md?page=1)