2-3 Sep 2010
I woke up around 3:00 PM, and took 1 piracetam and choline at 6:00 PM, 12:00 AM and 6:00 AM. I did sleep well, for about five hours. I only woke up because I had to, not due to trouble sleeping. I was still pretty tired later in the day. Again, not a wakefulness drug. I recorded a video in the evening, which I still have to edit down. I estimate it'll end up being 12-13 minutes long.
In addition to books about Rwanda, I've also been reading a Harry Potter fanfic (yes, really) about rationality. That makes it okay, right? It's actually quite good, although I imagine it's not for everyone. It's basically the HP universe analyzed and deconstructed from the perspective of the real world, which is fascinating and also quite amusing. The magical world is approached with no suspension of disbelief - things that make no sense at all are just something else to be critically examined and subjected to experiments. "Magic" is no longer a semantic stop sign. It's awesome, and informative.
Does anyone else really enjoy the night? I'm often awake from sunset until sunrise. I do keep a dark sheet over my window since it faces west and it can get pretty warm during the day (although I have no trouble sleeping all day in broad daylight), but even with the constant darkness, the night is still something special. It's a very empty time - there's no noise, no commotion, no bright light and nobody else around. It's like having more "open space" to operate within. It's very conducive to steadily thinking and working without any interruption, for hours at a time. Sometimes it seems like the daytime can be too distracting to effectively focus on getting anything substantial done; most of the significant work I do gets done in the middle of the night, and it tends to feel more "integrated".
There's a very distinct mood that comes from just being up during the early hours of the morning, with nothing but the soft, dim glow of a single lamp to read by, knowing that almost nobody else is even awake and there's hardly anything going on. It's like being alone, but amplified. For a time, you can imagine that there's nobody else in the world.
In a positive way, of course.
HP fan fiction isn't that bad
i wrote Star Trek fan fiction for english class a few times
I have worked many "graveyard" shifts and enjoyed being "alone". daytime lways seemed more stressfull!
I worked graveyard shift for a year. The positive part was the solitude and rarely seeing customers. The downside is that I never got to go out with my friends.
Did you hear about the woman who couldn't wait for the Harry Potter book 7 to come out and made her own fanfic version? Apparently someone thought it was legit and some publishers in Mexico started printing it like crazy. Then JK Rowling found out and sued the author of the fanfic even though she had no idea any of this was happening and wasn't making any money of it.
You should probably also read My Immortal - A Harry Potter Fanfic.
I have started to read that and some of the explanations of it. It is horribly wonderful. Thanks for mentioning it.
I hate nighttime, it freaks me out. I can't even be outside at night or I'll have a mini panic attack.
I'm definitely a night person, by preference. The sun bothers the hell out of me, with its brightness and its heat. If I'm inside, it doesn't really matter to me.
Also, I certainly find it much easier to work with no other disturbances in my house, including conscious people.