Sleep

*raises a paw*

Oh I've been there and done that. When I worked two jobs, it was from 5pm to 7am 5 days a week. I've quit the second job, however the first one is still a night job. So I'm currently nocturnal and will be having a heck of a time getting myself back into daylight hours for the con.

-There is no truth

Can't Sleep Clowns Will Eat Me.

Also think I might be messed up in the head so I don't get a lot of sleep.

I generally find I get maybe an hour or so of sleep at AC, too much work to do I find, and too many people to visit with. Hence why most artists say that if you bring gifts of coffee, we love you to pieces...lol.

*raises paw*

The night time is just more pleasant all around.

I used to have a true nocturnal lifestyle, working at Wally World on the 3rd shift (10:30 pm until 7:30 am). Now I'm just mostly nocturnal, working a 2nd shift job at the local college (meaning I typically go to bed around 1 or 2 am.

I'll probably be just about right for AC really--if anything, I'll have to wake myself up early or something.

I am noctournal when i am allowed to be, i usually dont go to sleep until it gets to be past 5:00 AM, but since i have school, i have to flip that around and go to sleep before midnight (although i am never able to) to get up at 6:30. too bad none of my other friends where i live are like that because i have always wanted to call them all up to go wandering around where we live at around 2:00 AM

Both sides of my family have the ability to go for very long periods of time with little or no sleep; it is something that I pride myself on. Generally I am in bed at 4:00AM then awake again at 6:00AM ready to go. I actually gained sleep at last AC. *laughs*
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Dear lord, you want me to do what with that hairdryer!?

AM, PM... it's all the same in the end. You learn to ignore the sun and the moon. All that matters is: Work = Get Paid = Pay Bills.

And all that jazz.

*raises paw*
ish nocturnal but still I think I can manage to stay up during the day and sleep at night ugh.... stupid school prevents me from going Full-out nocturnal but yes... I think and work better during the night and also prefer it over the day-time
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don't ever let me fall asleep in/on ur shoulder or lap...
ur friend may nibble and nip, but I bite... rawr ^^

*raises a paw, then his other, and then lays on his back and sticks his feet in the air* Yeah...I tend to go from 3-4 PM till 7-9 AM as far as my Awake time goes. I blame addictive RPs I got into as the cause of this. Durn RPs with people in other timezones! *shakes paw*

I'm a night creature, but odd enough at this years AC I was up to 3-4 am and got up at 8am and went back at it again. This is how you wake up, nice hot shower then slowly turn the water to cold to cool yourself off and finally dance in the cold water some =3 You'll wake up ^_^

Just a small note:

Anything that causes the chairman to be woken up prematurely at Anthrocon will unleash all of the demons of Hell upon the perpetrator.

I actually sleep quite well at AC.

Because two night a week, every week, I stay overnight in the laboratory. The only sleep I get on those nights is taken on a few cardboard boxes on the cold tile floor of the lab office, with some lab coats for blankets. :<

But it gets me pity points at work because I outwork everyone else and suffer all the time. :3

I use to be able to stay up all night when I had a second shift job. I'd sleep in till 1:30pm, start work at 2pm, and ended work at 10 or 11pm. After that I'd stay up all night till like 4am or 5am. Mom called my a vampire back in those days. ^.^;; Now I have a first shit job, forced to wake up at 6:15am, and I still can't adjust to it! DX I love the night but first shifts jobs pay better and get you time to play in the day and sorta at night. Took me a week or more to fix my sleeping habits after that second shift job though. May have to adjust for the con as well if I wanna survive the evening dance events. I can't seem to stay up as late I use to, thanks to my first shift job. ... Blah...

I can go 3 days with only 6 hours of sleep. I'll be fine for the con. Though I doubt my room mates will enjoy me getting up at 4:30am to go to the gym.

All-in-all, I rarely sleep that much. 3, 4 hours a night can get me through...I'm usually up 'til 4 AM, and my biological clock wakes me at about 7 or 8, so yeah. I call myself and others like me Omnitournal. We sleep when we want to! >;3

After my years in the Army - where all the hours are THEIRS and none properly belong to YOU - I secured a job as a Police/Fire dispatcher, in a small town in the Mojave Desert, next to an Air Force Base. It was a shift job, but the nature (and tradition) of such work is that you work a shift for a month, and then the shift assignments change, so that everyone has an equal shot at a "normal" lifestyle for a while. My shift as often as not turned out to be Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday, Swing shift, from 4 O'Clock in the afternoon until midnight...with a Day shift job on Sunday. I would drive home to my mountain resort town of Wrightwood, get in about 1 in the morning, walk my dog, and retire near to 2, except for that nasty 8-hour window on Sunday; that day I would get home as close to midnight as I could, dog-walk long enough for Business to be done, and into bed. I would get a wake-up call from the person who relieved me, and who was now waiting for me to relieve them in turn. The upside of this schedule was, I had my weekend from Sunday evening until Wendnesday afternoon, with the mountains and desert free from tourists. The downside was acquiring the habit of drinking upwards of 2 QUARTS of Coca-Cola a NIGHT, to keep awake. I didn't plan my sleep periods very well, but I was young.

LAter I gained employment in Pomona at a defense plant - General Dynamics, if you want to know - and worked a straight and unvarying swing shift there. This required leaving my desert home each day at 2:30 in the afternoon, and driving over the pass into the Pomona Valley, to be there by 4:15 each normal workday; I was supposed to get off at 12:45am at the end of my shift, but at the time we had a mandatory overtime period of 2 hours, so I would stumble out at 2:45am - in time for the "bars are now closed" traffic - and make my way home sometime around 4 in the morning, by motorcycle during the dry summer months. Get home, walk dogs in desert, in bed a half-hour later, and sleep until 10 or 11, with a few hours in the afternoon for recreation, shopping, reading, playing with dogs - and do it over again. My readjustments were around my weekends; Sunday night was the best time to see a movie at one of the theaters in Victorville.

...But I paid a price for this - I have never been an effective "morning person" since. I still did my best work in Swing-shift jobs, and when I joined the railroad, for a year worked in a dispatch center on Graves. My strategy was to get off at 8 in the morning, drive 15 minutes to home - walk the dogs - and immediately retire to a room with all drapes drawn, the telephone off, the house AC set to "fan" (for the masking-effect of the ventilator - and sleep until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon. I would watch programs recorded on my VCR, shop - play with dogs, extended dog-walks along the creek or whatever, until 7pm; back in bed at 8, alarm set for 11Pm - that 3 hours' sleep before work really helped. Back at work at 11:30 pm, "lunch" at the all-night TacoBell at 3:30 or so - and next meal about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, and a light dinner around 7.

NOW I have difficulty staying awake after lunch, being fine from about 2 until 9pm or 10; and if I do not retire right then, I am fully awake at 11 pm, and can stay that way until about 4 in the morning. NOT good for safety. I don't know if I will ever "feel" normal during "normal" hours again, but my current position with the railroad holds out few opportunities for regular, steady nocturnal work.

PS - anyone thinking that taking one of the many openings for "train service" employment with a railroad is a good idea - keep in mind, you don't work steady, predicatable shifts; its 8 hours, plus opportunity for 4 hours overtime, and then mandatory 8 hours "rest" - and then they can call you for another 8 plus 4, then 8 off for rest - then 8 plus 4, again. You will not see two consecutive sunsets, your clock is eternally offset, and it is VERY DIFFICULT for a Family Man to actually see and be an active part of his own family.

Oh, this is a time I can LOVE my metabolism.

A birth defect, triggering itself in puberty, has left me among only a few thousand worldwide with a hyper-active metabolism.

Such to the extent that most of my bodily processes run at approximately 3.2x the average pace. That said, instead of 7+ hours sleep, I can replace it with two.

Usually it's a major inconvenience. What with boredom-insanity from lack of sleep, needing to eat extra, and so on.

But come anthrocon, this kitty's going to have a VERY strong advantage behind him..

I hardly eat anything but when I rly wanna eat I can eat U outta house and home I can skip supper for a week if I need/want to I can't go the entire day however just like a meal but if provoked/depressed I can go for days
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don't ever let me fall asleep in/on ur shoulder or lap...
ur friend may nibble and nip, but I bite... rawr ^^

Talking about eatting now eh? If need me I can run with only a meal or two a day (sometimes a little snack or two) though it DOES not make me a happy fur if I have to. I love my food .. hehe mabye thats why I'm such a fat*** XD