I'm all in. I'm out from Dec. 10 to Jan. 13 and have no family coming so I should be completely in the clear.

About the avatar: Sorry but DDT should have reduced the file size. I'll have it fixed in a few.

Edit: Ok. Should be fixed. Let me know it there are more issues.

PS: That was the most awkward/hilarious/wtf movie-showing I've seen at CMU

So glad I put off that paper to go see it

Best CMU tradition ever

Wow

PS: Also, I'm kicking this paper's ass...five pages out of seven and I know how to fill the last two pages woooo

AF: Huh today was emotional

Sweet. We will set something up right after finals, which end for me on the 16th.

HR: Life

Sweet.

HR: Burnt popcorn setting off fire alarms at midnight.
AF: My racist roommate yelling "SMURF YOU YOU SMURFING [race and or religious group here]" as we left the building.

God damn do I hate unproductive all-nighters.

Waking up late leads to taking my meds late
Taking my meds late means I stay up later
Staying up later means I wake up later.
Waking up later means I miss classes.
Missing classes means I get bad grades.
Missing classes also means I get almost no social interaction.
No social interaction and bad grades cause depression.
Depression means I can't go to classes or get social interaction.

My life is a beautifully circular flow chart.

My flow chart is sort of like that. Except it goes something like this.

I put off a little bit of work for class. "I can do it later!"
Major life problems pile up on the backburner, new major problems appear suddenly.
Continue putting off work to deal with major problems.
Problems begin to seriously depress me, becomes harder to get work done.
Work becoming harder to get done leads to more procrastination.
Procrastination leads to sadness about inability to get work done.
Stress over life problems lead to more sadness which leads to more dithering.
Depressions lead to alienating friends and therefore more sads.
Sudden happiness appears, do not want to spoil it by working and ruining mood, procrastinate.
Sudden crash when I realize the extent of the stuff I have to do, more sads.
Have to pull an all-nighter to even have a chance to complete work.
Continue working with the vague hope that, when this is all over, my mood will snap back from this hell.
Know that barring some miracles that has little chance of happening in the short-term.
Realize that sadness prevents me from seeing the long-term in anything but an abstract sense.
Put head on table and pray to a God I don't really know if I really believe in.
Do... more work? I guess?

Actually, I guess that isn't actually circular in the slightest. My bad.

UC: Dense fog.
PS: O Chem was canceled
AF: because the professor got lost on her way to campus.

PS: One more night of intense work, two studios tomorrow, and I'm done for the week

HR: Tonight's 'on be an all-nighter...especially sad, since I didn't sleep last night either

Please don't do it. Skipping two entire nights of sleep is absolutely terrible for your health, both physical and mental. There is a point where grades are not the most important concern.

Speaking as a dude who has never chained all-nighters, I'm with Will. That is absolutely terrible for your health.

PS: I didn't get the lowest grade in the class on my Stats test!!!

PS: Actually turns out I got above like 30% of the class!!!

AF: If you had told me entering college that I would ever find myself happy about that situation, I would have been mortified.

PS: Nothing pressing due that I need to do for tomorrow.

PS of the Millenia: I can go to sleep in a few minutes.

I did 3 all nighters in a row right before I graduated. Pick your spots to get in a couple hours of sleep and go on.

This of course however...is not advisable.

UC: I'm in absolutely paralyzing pain post-surgery now.

I have chained all-nighters. After three days you can start to hallucinate. In general it is a terrible long-term idea but not the worst thing in the world.

PS: Meeting up with The Gang this week!

UC: One of the gang members has been rather icy ever since I started dating another gang member. Probably because I'm not infatuated with her any more.

HR: The other gang member is my gf's ex.

PS: I will get an awkward story out of this, I can just taste it.

Essacly


Oddly enough the ex is pretty chill about the whole thing.

I've strung together multiple all-nighters before, and though you'd be better off just doing your work earlier, it's worth keeping good grades.

I'm also impervious to disease, toxins, and all other potential sources of harm, so maybe I'm biased.

PS:

^Ughhh wisdom teeth with lack of vicodin bad memoriesssss


I really appreciate your concern...but there's just not much I can do. I had an hour nap between my morning class and afternoon studio, and I might be able to rest for a bit later...but I've got two huge projects due tomorrow, and if I don't turn them in I will fail
At everything
Forever

is there a greek god of procrastination yet? i feel like i could make a pretty solid case.

BFE (best feeling ever): meeting your long-time all-favorite band

and shaking each member's hand and getting their autographs


brb still melting (and this happened LAST NIGHT)

I like that, BFE

BFE: Home tomorrow (Wednesday...on the East coast here), turn 19 the day after that

who was it?

also: careful ttta, you can only use that once.

UC: Apparently I have a paper due tomorrow.

What the hell, classes. Stop happening this week.

dir en grey. japanese rock band.


ttta?

trying
to
think
again

There are other circumstances that add to this feeling that I am not at liberty to discuss in public. I may not be experiencing the BFE, but if I'm not, then if things pan out the way it's looking like they will, then I definitely will be experiencing the BFE.

But there's also a most-HRE thrown in there for a good friend of mine going through more than anyone her age should have to go through. It's not third-world, starving-to-death-as-parents-are-shot bad, but it's still pretty damn smurfed up.

PS: 1 hour and 20 minutes until I leaveeeee

why did i have to wake up sick this morning

why am i still sick

why can't i walk anywhere right now

fffffffffff--

HR: Plaaaaaaane riiiiiiiiiide

Guess who's drawing instructor didn't show up to see the project I stayed up all night working on.






...

PS: Still alive after meeting with Capt Glenn in uniform while unshaven.

PS: Home in one hour, managed not to commit suicide this flight somehow. Thanks Philip Roth/free wifi.

Was the flight really that bad?

I stayed up all night last night because it was so early, then discovered that somehow the airlines found a way to make the seats even less conducive to sleep. I think it wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the frustration involved though. Basically I was in the middle section, with three seats. I'm in the left aisle seat, and there is a girl in the middle seat. Whoever is in the right seat doesn't show. Instead of moving to the right seat and thus giving both of us plenty of space, the girl in the middle seat first puts her backpack on the right seat for three hours while watching George Lopez, then when she wants to sleep puts down the armrest and stretches out across two seats, thus attaining the most comfortable sleep possible on a plane while I physically cannot. Also I've been sick and flying while sick sucks. Also I'm incredibly hungry but never had time to get food since last night, and last night I ate Duke food, which was terrible and I couldn't really get much down before it killed my appetite.

The reason suicide was an option is I finished the entire Philip Roth book I brought on the plane pretty early in the flight and am too tired to start another one. If it hadn't been for the free wifi on this plane I don't know how I could have passed five hours of time.

Between that & the professor who didn't accept switched answers, it sounds like your professors suck.

:/ I am sorry to hear that. People are dumb/jerks.

I make the same 5 hour flights going home/going back to school, and they're always so terrible. I usually take the redeye flights, too, but can never sleep. :/ The only time I actually slept on a flight was last May when I pulled two all-nighters the days before my flight. (So I got no sleep Monday and Tuesday nights and my flight was Wednesday night; I had to finish up three different projects and move out of my apartment within those three days.) Yeah, I had never been so exhausted... but it was really nice sleeping the entire flight. I usually can only kinda-doze for 30 minutes max.

Was the free wifi a trial session or is your airline nice enough to give you free wifi?

They gave it free for the holiday season or something. Serious lifesaver though.

AF: I kind of wish there wasn't any smurf involved with relationships after they're over. I'm getting tired of having to deal with this smurf.

major, major qft.

AF: TV in the lobby is messed up, has this big black box covering part of the lower half, managed to convince several people so far that it's a censor bar and there is actual nudity on the TV show. As there are almost no girls at this school, the results have been quite....interesting...

AF: people are making fake IDs in the same lobby

Wait. I thought it was you that said Daytona had more girls than Prescott. And we aren't that stupid. We don't have fake IDs either.

Intelligence is usually indirectly related to sexual desperation.
And I said we had more girls, not more female students. Most of the people in my dorm are AE, and thus don't leave campus much.

Oh. The AEs are the worst about that sort of thing most of the time. Our Space Physics people are typically just as bad, but there are fewer of them.

yep. and the confusion only lasted a few seconds anyways, none of them are THAT stupid...

UC:my dad decided to remodel my room while i was away at college and not tell me and i came back to find that he got all my decathlon medals out of order.....(i had them all hung up by subject and whatnot, which was nice)

At least he didn't put up Hello Kitty wallpaper and give you a Bratz bedspread.

no, I've just been forced into my sister's old room, which is about 10'x10' (my mom and sister moved out a week before I left for college)

PS: Wow, I was awake earlier than I needed to be, for once.

HR: Flying in a couple hours. Ugh. On the worst travel day ever.