December 11, 2006

All-nighter: Running blog

I’m at the library with Junior, trying to pull an all-nighter right into our exams. I’ve never done it before, so it’ll be good to see how it goes. We stocked up on nutritional foods to provide the best fuel for this situation. Candy and lots of it.

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1:17AM – We’ve eaten a bunch of candy. And a bunch of cookies. And we watched part 1 of the Top 50 Most Spectacular Dunks. Seven hours until the beginning of doomsday. I read a bunch of “how to pull an all-nighter” articles earlier. Most of them re-iterated that it’d be best to not have to in the first place. That’s discouraging and not helpful at all. The best advice is to work 50 minutes and take 10 minute breaks. If I remember, I’ll add more to this in 50 minutes.

4:39AM – Body is breaking down. I’m working on my notesheets. The thing about notesheets is that you always imagine it’ll take 20-30 minutes since it’s just straight copying, but it usually takes a few hours. From 8 to midnight, time went by pretty slow, but after that it’s disappeared quick. A little more than three hours is left. We ate McDonald’s and I gotta give the thumbs up to the chicken snackers aka the mini-KFC twisters. P.S. Junior drooled on his notebook while napping.

7:55AM – Time to go! Twelve hours has never gone by so quick.