the night owl thread

Hello, fellow insomniacs!

I am forever cursed with this INSANE sleep schedule, and I constantly lament the relative lack of internet activity in the wee hours of the morning.

So, I encourage you guys to post here, but only after 1am, whatever time zone you are in. Because, you know, most decent people are beginning to think about bed by this time.

You can post anything you want. (Some ideas: do you LIKE to be awake really late, or are you simply unable to stay on a normal sleep schedule? What's your favorite time of night?) It doesn't have to be sleep related. I dunno about you, but I kind of think differently when it gets really late. I get a bit reflective. I look up random things on the internet that would probably not interest me nearly so much in the daytime. For example, last night I was searching yahoo! images for pictures of body painting.

My basic goal for this thread is that it provides (I almost spelled it "pervides"—go figure, it's late) some form of entertainment for us night owls, and maybe even an outlet for our nighttime musings.

Additional Spam:
Here are two of the coolest body paint pictures that I found:

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I too, am cursed with this unholy sleep schedule. I work 5 days a week from midnight-8am at a college dorm. To make things worse, I tend to actually sleep at night during the weekends which means I tend to not have a regular sleep schedule.

It was pretty bad keeping myself busy here until this last Christmas, when I received a laptop as a gift. The computers here are pretty stupid (they have this program that basically locks you out from doing anything and reverts it back to what it was before). Now I tend to download massive amounts of weird music...

I used to look up conspiracy theories all the time... but I don't really do much of that anymore.

It is so hard to stay awake from 4am to 6am. ;_;

It's a quarter to 5, so I don't have much capacity to say anything particularly insightful. So I'll just note that body paint is cool because it's a sneaky way of being publicly naked. Those two models have some deific patience, though. I have no idea how anyone could hold still for that long.

This is no curse at all. It is indeed a gift! You get far more done when there are fewer interruptions! I also think differently but it's great, some of my best essays have come from writing them between 2am and 6am. I have had insomnia my whole life so I guess I'm just used to it *shrug*

Originally Posted by GorgeousGhost

This is no curse at all. It is indeed a gift! You get far more done when there are fewer interruptions! I also think differently but it's great, some of my best essays have come from writing them between 2am and 6am. I have had insomnia my whole life so I guess I'm just used to it *shrug*

Replace "essays" with "drawings" and that sums up my entire artistic life. My grandma used to fight like hell with me to get me in bed by 9pm when I was in elementary school...I just can't go to sleep with the chickens .

And yes, I enjoy the minimal interruptions from nighttime work...nobody calls you (usually...but I have nocturnal friends also), everybody else is asleep. Of course, I also tend to get a lot done if I wake up early in the morning (like, around 6am).

It is 2:57am here in good ol' Australia and I have to say, there's a bit more activity on the internet now compared to Aussie daytime. The fact that America is about 15-20 hours behind explains why updates and/or posts happen most frequently during this time of night for me. Many of the sites and members derive from USA.

Because of that (and too much partying) my schedule is off the wall. I prefer this time of night anyway since it's the only time I can keep me for myself (rather than keep face for the public, for example).

Oh, it's also the best time to look up random stuff, as many posters here have noted. Who ever knew Shaggy (from Scooby-Doo)'s real name was Norville?

This thread'll come in handy in the near future. Good idea blue... =o Let's give this thread a nightlife limitation.

0050 hours here in the UK. I'm sitting at the kitchen table with my brother, our respective laptops opposite each other. We're playing Civilization 2, a game neither of us has touched properly in almost a decade. I'm getting my ass pounded.

2am here. Sipping on some herb tea while listening to dark ambient, playing Hugel races in RO and refreshing the boards every 2 minutes. I have an appointment at 9, of course. I always have an appointment early when I do that, these days. =p

Used to have totally fucked up shedules for years, literally. Going to bed only at daylight ,smoking cig on cig and all. In fact, I think quitting smoking was an important part in my change of schedule. I still like the night time, but God I loved it when I was still smoking.

Nearly 2:30am over here, and the main reason I'm up is I missed my favourite show (Dr. G on Discovery Channel) and want to watch the rerun at 3AM. I don't have a VCR!

I love being up late sometimes, but I also love getting up early sometimes, so the two things clash from time to time and I pass out at like 9PM and sleep till noon the next day.

It definitely is one of the biggest advantages of being a 100% freelance worker, all I have to do is hit my deadlines and other than that I can stay up till whenever I want, and do whatever I want. I wanted to watch the Lidell vs. Jackson UFC matchup which was live at something like 5AM, and since it was already 2AM, I just stayed up till 5-6 AM to watch it. (And totally worth it too!)

5:30 AM. My brother left for bed at 3, and the sun is actually up outside now... Strange when I've been in a part of the world where it doesn't fully rise until 9 AM at this time of the year.

Been buggering around editing photos for two hours. Better hit the hay.

It's 2:09 am... I know I should sleep. I dont sleep now, it'll mean I'll sleep until 1pm tomorrow. I dont like sleeping through most of the day (plus that means I'll only have an hour to hang around before work).

Yet I'm not tired enough to sleep (probably because I slept until 1pm today), and I dont want to try to sleep just to lie in bed thinking, because that tends to have bad results (see blue's Dream thread just a few under this one).

I should have made a better attempt at keeping the sleep pattern I got from my week on vacation. :-\

Hoo...Hoo...

Beta waves calling my name...

Hoo. ZZZZZZ

2:46am here (wile I am typing this) and to be honest I like staying up at night. It is peaceful and cool and I am not bugged by anybody.

It is nearly 3am, and tonight I have spent some time watching Lily Allen (British pop singer) songs on youtube and researching whatever gossip/dirt the media is heaping on her. I also found her myspace and read some of her blog entries.

Lily is interesting. Her songs are catchy and she clearly possesses talent, but she is far too immature to handle fame. She does things like show up to her concerts drunk, and she abruptly cancelled all but 4 of her 21 scheduled shows on her U.S. tour. She's strangely likeable, though, because she does have this realness about her that many other stars lack entirely.

So that's what I've been doing tonight.

I normally don't stay up later than midnight because of work, but meh. Here's my post for night owls.

My journal entry today (yesterday?) about Fruit was a bit of late-night inspiration. Gee, the amazing things I do to keep myself awake.


And with that, I bid the internet adieu for tonight. I'm going to get off of here before 1am!

Well the only thing on my plate is GED school 4 days a week and it is a night school

tho I always forget to update and add a new entry to my journal

2 a.m. and it's another sleepless night. I wish so badly I could sleep, but I can't. I swear if this continues I'm going to buy some sleeping pills and just knock myself the fuck out every night.