whew

So I was actually doing quite well early Thursday morning, with the only hang-up being that I woke up from my 9 o'clock at 10, meaning I was late for work... but anyways I did well the rest of the day, but at 1 am I was starting to feel really sick and so this weekend I went home (Powell) to get some medication.. mainly ganja... and now I feel great again. First night of this attempt

wowzuh's....

So, due to falling asleep every... 30 seconds or so while reading, I'm going to take a mid-term nap, as it were. Right now I'm preventing failure by continually hitting snooze on my phone alarm, resulting in it buzzing me back to life every 5 minutes.

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Alright I made it to my mid-term nap time. Packing up my hw, gettin dressed, already set the alarm, and clothes are in a bag ready to go when I wake up! Now please wake up, Byron. Oh Goddamn please fucking wake up I don't want to fail again lol...

workout

Alright so here I am. Up and about at 5:41. Feeling tired. But that's alright. I have a history paper to write still, which I hope to complete before about 7, when I will change into jogging clothes and head to the Rec. I'm meeting a friend there at 7:30 whom I was supposed to meet there this morning, but didn't due to my failing this experiment and falling asleep at 1 not to wake up til 9:30. Anyways, I've got a paper to write.

Alright...

So I haven't posted in a while. Not like anyone reads this, but whatever. So I've been going for the past 3 days now, but have failed twice in that time span: This morning and yesterday morning. But today is a new day! Plus I have a PHL paper to write... about the cosmological argument, first cause, the possible infinite regress of the universe through a cyclical universe, and further defense of that argument before a surface-y skim of the influence or possible effects from alternate dimensions and so on. You know, normal stuff. I got a new haircut too. woot. mohawk... I've also developed an actual night-time layout as well, so the only problem(s) that remain are not going to bed after turning off an alarm and making sure that I set the alarms (correctly). The latter I've mastered, so it really is just a self control thing now, rather than a "falling asleep while doing homework in the basement/study room" kind of thing. Basically what I'm doing is between 1 and 5 I'm doing homework and watching a tv show replay every half hour or so as to keep myself entertained and such. Between 5 and 9 I jog to the Rec center, lift, job back, and then it's time for breakfast, which I eat liberally slow, and then I finish up a little bit more homework (I'm usually safely attentive by this point). So I've got my plan to help me stay awake... it's just the waking up part that's a problem now. I also want to note that I wasn't posting for a while because I was afraid that posting success stories was jinxing myself haha. Good old me fighting superstition while holding superstitious beliefs and acting according to them. whatever.

hm...

ended up sleeping from 1 to 7... shit. well whatever I'm pressing onward... again. gotta nap.

train kept a rollin', all night long...

so I'm still on it. nice! However, I'm discrediting myself if I say I completely succeeded last night. I was on track all the way through breakfast, where I found out school was closed for the day (sick....), so I went back to the room after breakfast intending to wake up at around 9:40 ish, and what happened was basically a string of inadvertent alarms, text messages, and phone calls going on constantly. I woke up at 10:12 on my own, so I over slept by like 30 minutes, but in my disoriented state, I looked at my alarms that were set to see where I went wrong or whatever, and found that an alarm was going to go off at 10:35, so I figured that I must have ended up going to bed at just after 10 (thinking about it now, I'm fairly certain that I went to bed at 9, didn't fall asleep, so laid down for a 9:30 to 10 nap instead, but when I set my alarm I changed it from 9:35 to 10:35 instead of from 9:35 to 10:05.......). Anyways, I went back to bed at 10:12 thinking I hadn't completed my full nap, and ended up not getting out of bed until 11:30, but never actually falling asleep for more than maybe 15 minutes at a time. So I skipped my 1 oclock and my 5 oclock, and took my 9 oclock at 9:30, and now here I am. I have a HST paper to write (really short... should be easy) and a lot of PHL to read, and then I'm going to go over flash cards for arabic. This should keep me up until the dining hall opens and my 9 oclock and then work. I still haven't been to GEO since the first week of school. However, I am doing fine on my online quizzes, so that's good I guess.... fuck that class.

new morning...

ah... success. so I finished all my homework due today, got a 9/11 on an online quiz in GEO, figured out how to plug the 360 into the projector (minus sound... the jacks for the sound are too far away from the video HD plugs... I'll probably have to use the extension cord for the surround in the room) my roommate is snoring like mad right now, so I'm going to record this shit. hilarious.