A. 34 hours

Q. What is the longest consecutive amount of time smelt can stay awake before the wheels come completely off and she crashes spectacularly?

So, yesterday I turned in my thesis. It's not accepted yet, and there are two citations that I need to dig out that I couldn't find in time, but yeah. It's in.

The writing allnighter was something I haven't done in years (if ever), and it was suprisingly enjoyable. I didn't feel stressed out or self-recriminatory while I was doing it, just really really focused. I wanted to finish, this was my deadline and no one else's, and if I perhaps underestimated the time it would take, no problem. My choice.

I was feeling pretty self-satisfied about how well I was doing with the whole not-having-slept thing, excepting a couple of extremely chatty moments when I couldn't shut myself up, and  perhaps a mite of peevish behavior over this or that small thing or other (sorry mr. s.), but overall I was functioning at a decent level. It had also been an exciting day on other fronts: a good friend defended her dissertation today, and another friend is leaving the university and had a surprise party, so there was plenty to keep me up and occupied. Until I got home. I had about 15-20 minutes before I stumbled to bed, read for about a minute, and crashed. Here's to soft landings.

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#1  05 December 2006 - 16:34

 

whoop whoop! congratulations! i hope you slept a lot to celebrate. :)

NoChaser

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