So who's sleep deprived?

So after a neat-but long-day baking under the Death Valley sun, I get to the airport in plenty of time for a "red-eye" special leaving at 10:30 PM and arriving 6:30AM at JFK. That's actually a five hour flight with the time changes and all, but I still figured a few hours of sleep. Not to be: I had one of those "Seatmate From Hell" experiences- A 50ish lady who does something at one of the uptown casinos and who never stopped talking the entire flight. I don't have a clue what she had been smoking, injecting, snorting, ingesting, but she never stopped talking (or fidgeting) for a single minute throughout the flight: "Yak, yak, yak". Fidget, fidget, "Hey, wake up, she's offering you some water", fidget, fidget, "Hey, these headphones don't work so good", "Hey, ya wanna some coffee? She's offering you some coffee here", fuss, fidget, fuss, wiggle, wiggle.
Man, talk about being wired. I finally got home around 1PM and crashed for about three hours. Now for some much need food, and hopefully a decent night's sleep.
 
Teek,

Your presentation (paper) was excellent!! I look forward to hearing/reading more from you, now that I know the amazing brain you possess.

Yours, Kitt aka the lady in the wheelchair with big cast who seemed to be in everyone's way.
 
I can tell you're young and/or have no offspring!

UnrepentantSinner said:
What does the OP refer to when mentioning "sleep deprived" because it's all relative. I work nights so being up at 2am and 5am is normal for me, I just don't stay up listening to people talk for a half hour during the daytime when I'd be in bed so 20ish hours straight waking days is odd for me, but not for the reason you 9-5ers might think.

That said, when I hear about doctors or interns pulling 36 hour shifts I think that's crazy... but when I hear about people getting more than 5 hours of sleep a night at Amaz!ng functions I think that's certifiably insane.
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Them's fighting words, Mister!!!

Some of us are on the shady side of 40 and live sleep-deprived due to small, adorable but decidedly hyper inheritors of the Precious DNA. Regardless of intent, the lizard brain fixates on the presence of a nice, cool, QUIET bedroom that the Little Person cannot enter even with noise from her room--and sleepiness hits at 2 am. Okay, sleepiness hits sooner, but the OMG-I'm-going-to-sleep-in-a-noisy-bar level sleepiness hits by 2. And it's damned hard work to wheel oneself over to the elevators!

Believe me, I'd LOVE to have the physical resources to be able to go without sleep and spend more time acquiring TAM memories. I just don't anymore. How I wish I could have deposited all the hours I wasted staying up at SF Cons when I was 20-something into an account for withdrawal at TAM, which is not only more fun, but has a copious absence of seriously neurotic people!!

You owe me and others of "mature years" an apology -- or a neckrub at the next TAM, I'm willing to be flexible...

Kitt aka The Lady in the Wheelchair who was Always in the Way
 
Got home on the red-eye this morning. We were planning to go to the cottage but the logistics of doing this with no functioning brain really didn't work, having burned the candle at both ends pretty much every night. Going to bed again now... [thump]...
 
All I have to say is, I'm very happy I won't be back to work until next Monday.
 
What happened I get up at 9am on Tuesday . I got home at 2pm on Wednesday, what's that all about :-) I've now just woken up at 10pm, I'm glad I booked tomorrow off work
 
Two days back from TAM and getting up for work has not gotten any easier. Wouldn't trade the sleep deprivation for a second, but damn am I tired.
 
Miss_Kitt said:
Them's fighting words, Mister!!!
How I wish I could have deposited all the hours I wasted staying up at SF Cons when I was 20-something into an account for withdrawal at TAM, which is not only more fun, but has a copious absence of seriously neurotic people!!
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Um.... absence of seriously neurotic people? What TAM were you at?


Kitt aka The Lady in the Wheelchair who was Always in the Way
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That is not true! Sometimes you were being foolish by walking on it while pushing the wheelchair and Being in the Way (and ignoring the neurotics). :p

CT
 
I am still a zombie and it is Friday. Oh how I wish I had taken a zombie day on Tuesday, I really needed it. My flight got in at midnight Monday/Tuesday, it was suppose to get in at 10 pm Monday. I was at work at 9 on Tuesday morning and tired and grumpy because there were only two places I wanted to be, either in my bed or back at TAM and I was not at either.
 
Why is this in the "Amazing Meeting" section? This has "Forum Community" written all over it.
 
Try doing fluorescent microscopy in a dark room while TAM/sleep deprived, HAH!
 
Ziggy66 said:
Try doing fluorescent microscopy in a dark room while TAM/sleep deprived, HAH!
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The day I got back I was so tired I dropped a slice of brain that I was cutting on the microtome. Took me about fifteen minutes to find it (It was a rat brain, durn things are small).

"Pardon me, but have you seen a 40 micron slice of brain perchance?"
 
TAM 6 was the most awesome time of my life. Met so many amazing people, and I still haven't caught up on sleep!! Chatted with PZ Myers till 2am on the Friday night, and Jay Novella till 6:30am on Saturday morning!! WOWZAS!! I cannot wait till next year, and am recruiting more people to come in the mean time. Was great to meet such awesome people :crowded:
 
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