There have been many times in the past where I have sacrificed sleep for the sake of just a few more minutes (or hours) of gameplay. However, I generally reach a point where my eyes refuse to focus, and I begin to lose consciousness. Generally this occurs somewhere around 24-36 hours.

I've been having a great time this semester at school so far, and as a result have been heavily altering my sleep schedule. For the past several nights leading up to last night I got 3-4 hours of sleep. This was the result of a combination of work, gaming, and extreme procrastination. Normally after 3 nights of hardly any sleep I would have passed out for something like 14 hours last night. Instead, I didn't sleep at all. I believe I have discovered my own personal key to not sleeping as much as I should. There are two parts:

1. Work out
2. Shower

As long as I do each of these at least once each day I manage to stay awake longer each day. At this point I may be setting myself up for a major crash in the next week, but what the hell, I'm in college, and in the interim I have more time to blow everyone to bloody pieces in Team Fortress 2, plus more time to blog. My previous problems with staying awake, are rectified as long as I intersperse long periods of screen time with the two activities on my list.

I wonder how coherent this post is since it's being written on something like 9-12 hours of sleep over the past 4 days, with none for the last 25.


Also, I think these Rockstars might be helping out just a little.