All hopping through the frothy waves,
Insomnia has long been a friend of mine. Ever since I was 8 years old, hiding under my bedclothes, clandestinely reading my book by the light of a toy truck, I’ve known what it was like to be unable to sleep. My parents eventually figured out that I wasn’t staying awake just to be spiteful, and they decided to fight the battle on the other end — that is, let me stay up as long as I wanted and then did their best to wake me up in time for school. This didn’t really work either, as I sleep very heavily, once I manage to get to sleep.
Now, as an adult, I have naturally adopted a number of coping mechanisms to get around all of this — I try (and often fail) to go to bed an hour or two before I really want to go to sleep, I have 2 different alarms set for different time, to help me wake up, and I plan a few days ahead when I have an early meeting to get to, to make sure that my schedule is “turned around” sufficiently that I’m able to get up in time. But recently, all of this preparation has been backfiring on me — I’ve been falling asleep within minutes of going to bed, and waking up, feeling rested and refreshed, up to an hour before my first alarm goes off. So here it is, 9am, I’m awake, I’ve had breakfast, I’m showered and dressed, and I don’t even have to be at work for another 4 hours. I feel like an alien.
I think I’ll clean my apartment.
What’s next? Will you start wearing colors or something?
hello person who added me to their lj. I was a whizbanger too! Except I did the whole data labeling and didn’t really get to meet many of the people outside of that room.
Hello person whom I added to my friends list. That’s a funny coincidence about WhizBang. Since the Random Journal thing has been broken, I’ve just been doing the whole search by region thing when I’m bored, adding people who have interesting journal entries, and yours was one.
The only labellers I ever really got to meet were the ones who played pool a lot. I was mostly just stuck sitting in my office.
Yeah, we were sorta afraid of all teh people in the offices
But the labelling room was a helluva lot of fun. Except for when Brian would come in and be like “ok, you guys are messing around too much and haven’t done any actual work” Damn work. Did you participate in the huge thursday partying? We were going crazy 
Afraid of us? Whatever for?
I didn’t know that there were any thursday parties — I guess y’all were too afraid to invite me.
I dunno why we were afraid. I guess nobody seemed too inviting.
The thursday before everything went down, a bunch of us got really drunk and were running around
It was awesome