Any insomniacs around?

[Malebolgia]

If so, keep me company!

[Droopy]

1. Hello

I'm not an insomniac, I just work a wierd shift. I get off work at 1 am.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

10. That's what time I get off from work as well :)

[Droopy]

11. What do you do for a living?

I'm a trucker.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

14. I work at a distribution center .

Hours might be hard for some but the pay is great .

[prof_science]

2. I'm not an insomniac...

...I just like to stay up late. Even if I'm tired. Something about nights-- the pets are sleeping, it's nice and quiet. Late nights have a timeless feeling that I like.

[rainbow4321]

19. Midnight is noon to me....

Since I am a night shifter....best time for my daily walk is midnight. Almost had a heart attack one night, though, cuz a neighbor was out sitting in his yard <no lights on> and he scared the HELL out of me when he started talking to me as I walked by his house!
:scared:

[AllyCat]

3. Up writing the paper from hell

I have to write it with two other students as a community project. They selected me as editor and assured me they always get As on their papers.

It's the most God-awful thing I've ever read. They want me to highlight the changes I make so they can decide if they want to keep my changes. Frankly, I'm highlighting about 25% of it. The rest I'm just writing in something resembling the English language.

I really doubt they will notice. I hope...it's my grade too!!

We are only about half done and it's 30+ pages long. Due on the 2nd. God help me.

[prof_science]

8. Writing a paper with others...

...is about three times harder than doing it alone. I HATE working in groups. As an undergrad in engineering, they always made us do group projects, because they wanted to give us the "real world" experience of working with a team. It always ended up being one person who did 75% of the work, and the others just making errors that the one competent person had to fix. Hey, maybe that IS just like the real world after all...

Well, I don't like the real world. That's why I'm a professional student :)

[Turn CO Blue]

12. I have always said the same thing...

about working on group projects and on a "team" at work.

I do all the creating, everyone discusses (blah, blah, blah), then I do all the editing (more discussion which I ignore), and then I format and publish the final.

It must be the same everywhere, because my hubby said the same about his MBA program, and my son says the same thing about his engineering program.

[Malebolgia]

13. I got paired-up with a dumb football player...

and we both had to write a paper on one of our experiments.

Guess who wrote the paper? Me. :mad:

The guy didn't have a brain in his head. That's why I wrote it.

[AllyCat]

15. Here's just a small example of their, um, writing.

This is supposed to be a scholarly, APA-format paper for a senior project that has taken us all semester.

"The number of social and health services offered were amazing."

Wonder if I can find and cite a source for that? Oh, probably not since they have managed to conveniently omit source material for almost 50% of what they have written so far. After repeated protests from me that I would rather get a C on this for poor research than get kicked out of school for plagiarism, I've decided to find all the information myself.

That's why I'm still up at 2:30.

[Cadence]

4. Yeah, I've had sleeping issues lately

I hate when that happens. Why is good sleep so friggin elusive?

[jdots]

5. why sleep 1/3 of you life when we have infomercials ?

insomnia kicked in for me dec 11 2000 .if the shit hits the fan it's best to be very tired.

[Malebolgia]

6. Amen to that.

[Indy_OK]

7. Not insomnia just better hours

I also enjoy the night hours for peace and quiet. I retired from a 7 am to 4 pm job and have switched my awake hours ever since.

[Droopy]

9. Welcome to DU, Indy OK

Glad to have you aboard. :toast:

[fleabert]

16. i do, but it's only 12:45 here, not quite 'insomnia time' if you ask me...

Once it gets past 2 I consider myself to be 'suffering'.hour and fifteen to go and I will be tearing my hair out instead of sleeping.

[rainbow4321]

17. Night worker with the night off!

Trying to stay awake tonight so I can SLEEP all day Saturday since I have to work Sat. night!

Yay for people who are still posting at 3 in the morning! Nothin' puts me to sleep faster than reading 12 hr old threads and no one to "talk to"!!

:bounce:

[Wapsie B]

18. Not an insomniac.

Just working graveyard shift.

[ogradda]

20. yeah it's always been hard for me to sleep at nite

but its only 1am here i'm on pacific time :)

[sampsonblk]

21. You're bad

Even worse, you're bad bad bad. How am I doing?

[Malebolgia]

23. I feel good.

Hey! Someone's actually here to keep me company!

[Neoma]

22. Hiya

[Malebolgia]

24. G'morning.

:hi: