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I need a pick me up...
A2597
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in Zocalo v2.0
for the past six weeks, I've been averaging 4 hours rest a night.
some nights as little as 30 minutes.
Some days eating nothing, others 2 meals. Ocationally (Read: rarely) 3 meals a day. 1.5 is average.
Every waking hour is spent working on either my job, or my class. Most on my class.
I need to last one more week, then I can sleep, but I am literally at rock bottom. Physically, mentally, emotionally drained.
I've had to stay awake for periods of up to 84 hours with as little as four hours sleep in that streach.
I've experianced such things as flashing lights and other hallucinations brought on by sleep.
I've gone periods of up to a week with only a bowl of ceral a day, and then not been able to eat more then a couple bites of real food without getting sick.
and right now, I'm at rock bottom. I can't think, I can barely function, I'm insanly iratable, mood swings, depressed, short and long term memory loss, loss of appatite, headaches, inability to focus, list goes on....
I just need to last one more week, or the last six have been for nothing...my goal is to get to bed by midnight tonight, then up at 7. Most sleep I get in awhile. But still not what I need. No chance of just getting the work done faster, just...I've lost motivation. I'm seriously concerned for my own well being at this point, so....help. :(
some nights as little as 30 minutes.
Some days eating nothing, others 2 meals. Ocationally (Read: rarely) 3 meals a day. 1.5 is average.
Every waking hour is spent working on either my job, or my class. Most on my class.
I need to last one more week, then I can sleep, but I am literally at rock bottom. Physically, mentally, emotionally drained.
I've had to stay awake for periods of up to 84 hours with as little as four hours sleep in that streach.
I've experianced such things as flashing lights and other hallucinations brought on by sleep.
I've gone periods of up to a week with only a bowl of ceral a day, and then not been able to eat more then a couple bites of real food without getting sick.
and right now, I'm at rock bottom. I can't think, I can barely function, I'm insanly iratable, mood swings, depressed, short and long term memory loss, loss of appatite, headaches, inability to focus, list goes on....
I just need to last one more week, or the last six have been for nothing...my goal is to get to bed by midnight tonight, then up at 7. Most sleep I get in awhile. But still not what I need. No chance of just getting the work done faster, just...I've lost motivation. I'm seriously concerned for my own well being at this point, so....help. :(
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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by A2597 [/i]
[B]I've experianced such things as flashing lights and other hallucinations brought on by sleep.
I've gone periods of up to a week with only a bowl of ceral a day, and then not been able to eat more then a couple bites of real food without getting sick.
and right now, I'm at rock bottom. I can't think, I can barely function, I'm insanly iratable, mood swings, depressed, short and long term memory loss, loss of appatite, headaches, inability to focus, list goes on....[/B][/QUOTE]If my professor/boss wouldn't give me some leeway when I told them that, I would stop showing up until I felt better regardless.
Back then, I also discovered I have some heart problems -- not serious, but necessary to take into account.
Since then... I have learnt that some things... cannot be solved by simply increasing the amount of trying... that some problems must be circumvented... or broken apart and solved piece by piece. Because attempting to solve them directly, especially if limits exist (either in terms of time or money)... would not work.
If I may ask... what is the work... into which you have invested that much effort? Might there exist some way... to pursue it with less exhaustion?
Part time meaning about 2 hours a day. Ocasionally more.
So, nothing to really cut out of my life aside from....nothing comes to mind actually.
I just have one really really insane art instructor is all...only one class and it eats up about 18 hours a day.
Therefore if I ever had a class that gave too much work for me to get enough sleep, it simply wouldn't get done becuase of how my mind works (it goes to sleep, even if I don't).
Here is my suggestion A: Take a saturday (I assume you don't have class Saturday and Sunday). Sleep it away, even if you have work. When you wake up you will be able to function so much better that you might find you can finish all that crap your instructer gave you in 2/3rds the time (since you'd be rested), and thus still get it all finished for Monday. It's worth a try if you don't think you can keep going the way you are. Better to take a risk and get sleep with the hope you can catch up then keep going without.
I'm at the point right now that I am dozing off every few minutes. Have been since about 3pm. I only have 20 more gradient colors to mix before I can sleep...I should be able to do that by 8pm. That would net me 11 hours sleep tonight.
*Sigh*
I liked the painting at the begining of this assignment. 90 gradient colors from the primary colors later, I bloody hate it.
and you're probably right RC...
It takes time to let paint dry, about 5-10 minutes a coat, 3 coats per square, 110 squares on the chart, all different colors.
I'm typing when I'm waiting for the paint to dry. That is all.
Go eat something :)
I make my own food. Pizza, Stir Fry chicken, Chicken Fetticini, Chicken with Basil and Garlic served over Pasta, Chicken and Rice, French Toast, etc etc.
But that takes time....
3 colors left.
(Yea, I took a 3 hour break so as to be able to actually finish this project)
Get a cold the week before a 3 hour exam so you can't study properly for it, get only 3.5 hours sleep the night before the (morning) exam due to said cold, spend the rest not getting rested due to anxiety, then sit said exam while doped up on anti-cold drugs and completely unable to concentrate. For added kick, make the exam Advanced Japanese, requiring you to think in another language at a time when you can barely think in your native tongue.
I'm not sure what value this adds to the thread.
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