Roll call for insomniacs!

[Lil Missy]

Jeezus, I'm getting sick of this.

I'm thinking about staying up all night and all day tomorrow so I can go to bed early.

Oh, and a PSA: Don't feed the trolls.

[Inchworm]

1. *waves arms*

oops, sorry I have a drinking til the end buzz.

But, if you need a hand holler :P

:hug:

[Lil Missy]

4. Hi Inchworm!

I'm not sure what you mean, but thanks for the offer. :)

[Inchworm]

8. alls I can think of is...

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iR2Wi3u5o

:hug:

[grannylib]

2. I'm still up...not sure why...it was close to 2:00 am last night/yest. morning

when I went to bed after watching the returns most of the night, and now here I am again, listening to more shit *lol*
I should go to sleep. Honestly. I'm going to be shot to shit tomorrow.

[Lil Missy]

7. I was up all night watching the results too.

And boy, was my drass aggin' today.

[grannylib]

14. *lol* mine too. At least the day was busy enough to keep me

awake and engaged; no choice *lol* And tomorrow is my "Friday" 'cos I'm putting in my hours in four days so I can have Friday off without burning a vacation day; heading down to visit my Mom for Mother's Day on Friday. SO I can put up with being tired for one last day at work *lol* And then four day weekend, since I have the following Monday off too! :woohoo:

[Lil Missy]

17. Good for you! And have a good time with your mother.

I have to give some thought for Mother's Day too. She loves to go out to eat, so I think I'll take her somewhere nice.

:hi:

[Robeson]

3. Here and unaccounted for.

[Lil Missy]

9. Aye! Are you always up this late? Or having a bad night?

:hi:

[Robeson]

11. I used to be here ONLY late at night, but my work schedule is different now...

...so I'm rarely up this late.

[crimsonblue]

5. ya i'm up.

the semi-monthly insomnia spree kicked in... got a lot on my plate.. minds racing.. sleep prolly not an option.. but I may go lay down with the gf. if you know what i mean. ;)

[Lil Missy]

12. I know what you mean.

It's like as soon as you hit the sack you start having Board Meetings in your own mind.

What really ticks me off is even when they are in my own mind, I still lose!!!! :shrug:

[crimsonblue]

15. for some reason, I tend to dwell on the things I need to do the next day...

and unless i keep paper and pen on the nightstand, it stays until morning.. although, sometimes I wake up more refreshed after one of those 3 hour half-sleeps than I do a 9 hour restful sleep. I can also alternate sleeping days-- 3 hours on Tues & Thurs nights and 10 hours on Mon & Wed nights...

[Lil Missy]

19. OMG, that would kill me.

I used to work the graveyard shift and felt like crap trying to stay up on my days off so I could sleep at night.

[crimsonblue]

21. I feel tired, but I got a secret weapon..

pharmaceuticals. :D i take drugs for ADD and they pick me up in the morning better than 2 pots of coffee ever could.

[Lil Missy]

27. I gotta have my coffee. And pick-me-ups like that would probably give me a stroke!

Sounds like sleep walking in hyper mode while exhausted.

[crimsonblue]

29. it would seem that way, but it has a different effect on me..

For some reason, speed (which my drugs are a derivative of) makes me alert and focused, but I am less finnicky and fidgety. And it's like the file bin of my brain gets put on auto-sort, which is nice. It's my wonder drug. :P

[ghostsofgiants]

6. I'm here, of course.

:P

Maybe give melatonin a try to try and regulate your sleep cycle?

[Lil Missy]

13. I tried that before. I think I just need more structure in my life, and ...

to perhaps GET a life.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. *Raises hand*

Here I am!

I should be working on my poetry, but dammit, I cannot pull myself away from this place...

I am addicted!

[Lil Missy]

16. Hi CP!!

It can become addicting here.

Now, git to wurk on that poetry, Missy!

:P

[TK421]

18. I'm drinking Coronas here right now, so I'm half-awake.....

that may change in the next hour or tw........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Lil Missy]

20. I just made myself a cocktail too.

:toast:

But I suspect I'll get tired before I get a buzz. I was up too late last night. :boring:

[TK421]

22. Ughhh! Just getting off of work, myself! It sucks when you have to be up early next morning!

:(

[harmonicon]

23. That's what I'm doing today

I actually have to be somewhere in the morning today, which is incredibly strange. I have a very hard time getting to sleep, and am thusly often awake for 20 hours at a time, but when I fall asleep, it's almost impossible to wake me up until I've had enough sleep. So.... I've stayed up. It's just past 7am now, and I've got to be somewhere at 10, but will probably run some stupid errands at 9. Ick :( Why isn't everything open 24 hours like it should be?

[crimsonblue]

24. i take it u are in Europe...

or otherwise have your own time zone. :P

[harmonicon]

25. yeah, England

but I've been this way my whole life. When I was a teenager, it wasn't such a problem because I had loads of energy. Staying up for 36 hours was really no big deal. I often didn't sleep at night and was ok the next day until some time in my 20's. Now I need the sleep, but find it impossible to sleep on any normal schedule.

[crimsonblue]

28. What part of England?

I have family in... Leicaster I believe. I dunno.. what are the towns about an hour's train ride south of London?

[harmonicon]

30. I'm in West Yorkshire

It's a rather boring part of the country, except that it is very hilly, which I wouldn't have thought about before I moved here. There are probably literally thousands of towns within and hour of London. London is a 3 hour train ride from here, and that's considered to be a very long ways away - it's a small country, so distance is thought of very differently than in the US. Also, with the exception of London, which is HUGE (if you've never been there, it's hard to describe - it's larger than any US city), there isn't really sprawl, so there are lots of towns within a few miles of each other, but still have their own train stations and town centers.

[crimsonblue]

32. I figured...

and like you knew them anyway... i bet it gets old when people ask you , "do you know so and so?" It happens to me all the time. Apparently everybody in KS knows everyone else, and forgot to tell me.

[harmonicon]

38. It's true for Kansas City, KS - everyone there knows each other

Or that was the impression I was given. My freshman year of college, my dorm room mate was from KC. Years later, at a different school, I was talking to the girl who lived in the apartment above mine from in the graduate student housing. She said she was from Kansas City, KS, and I told her that it was funny, because my room mate in college was also from there - turns out that they went to high school together. Funny stuff.

[Lil Missy]

26. I didn't realize you were from the UK.

It's about 1:30 am. where I am.

When I finally fall asleep it's impossible to wake me up too. Thus, why I want to just stay up all day tomorrow to straighten out my schedule.

I do have a shopping center, grocery stores, and pharmacies open 24 hours here. So I can get "some" business done.

[harmonicon]

31. you're lucky

24 hour stores and restaurants are two things that I really miss about the US. I'd love to be able to go to Denny's at 4 and buy an electric screwdriver afterwards if I wanted to. *sigh* Oh well.

[Captain Angry]

33. I'm in my last week before I graduate from college.

I went back to finish up when my job went to India.

I should be sleeping. Or at least studying. But thanks to the 40-120 ounces of soda I drink a day to keep me running for this last stretch, no sleep.

I'm so tired I can't focus on reading my stuff for school, but I'm so caffeinated, I won't be sleeping for a while.

[Lil Missy]

34. Congrats on your graduation!

But sorry you are so wired you can't sleep tonight.

I recall the college days and pulling all-nighters too. I can't even imagine having that kind of stamina again. Ugh.

[Captain Angry]

37. If I were the normal college graduate age, it wouldn't be so bad.

I'm at the point where I could use a nap on a daily basis.

I'm closing in on yelling at the damn kids to get off my lawn, so this insomnia via caffeine is rough.

Thanks for the congrats. It's been a LONG time coming to finish this degree thanks to the years of one or two classes at night while working full time.

[Lil Missy]

40. I hear ya, bud.

I was working full time and a single mother too.

I wish I had HALF that stamina now.

[Captain Angry]

41. So, it sounds like I want to be you when I grow up. :-)

That's amazing. I've only run into a few kids in college who are doing something tough. Most are on mom and dad's dime, yet still have flat screen TVs, shop at Whole Foods daily, and have menial jobs.

It's a good thing that I'm bitter and lonely, because if I had to try and pull this off and care for a family, I would have been the guy on the news who'd snapped. (at least if I snapped, I'd be beating up Republicans instead of innocent people) :-)

[Lil Missy]

43. Oh, how lucky they are.

I, like you, didn't get financial help from my parents.

My dad did take me in when I was pregnant and after my son was born for a while. He's an excellent cook and fed me well. He wanted me to have a big and healthy baby, and I'll always be grateful to him for that.

[Lautremont]

35. I post Wylde Cigaretto for you:

[Lil Missy]

36. I have an irresistible urge to have a smoke now.

:hi:

[Lautremont]

39. If that picture makes you want to smoke, you've got it bad!

:hi: back!

[orleans]

42. here, but hopefully not much longer. n/t

[Lil Missy]

44. I'm about ready to crap out too.

:hi:

[Lil Missy]

45. I'm going to bed. And it's all CalPegs fault that I must get a sushi fix tomorrow.

[MonkeyFunk]

46. Here I am!

[Lil Missy]

48. Hi MonkeyFunk!

Glad to hear your back is feeling better!

:hi:

[MonkeyFunk]

51. Thank you!

It's much better - still not "fixed" but a lot better than it was. I'm getting another epidural in about 6 hours - that should help some more. I'll be able to resume my lion-taming and ninja activities in no time!

[SPKrazy]

47. Must be me cause I'm up again at my scheduled time

didn't wake up in a chair or being burned thank goodness

but I'm awake

:hi:

[Lil Missy]

49. I just checked in again on my way to bed.

So much for staying up all day.

I'm too pooped now.

:hi:

[shanine]

50. .

Good Morning!!

:hi: :hug:

[Lil Missy]

52. Good Night!

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

54. lol...

went back to sleep :D

:hi:

:hug:

[fizzgig]

53. tonight is one of those nights

it really varies for me...but tonight i can't sleep

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