From: fun@thingy.apana.org.au (David Gerard) Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [alt.gothic] Re: Sleep Deprivation Date: 8 Sep 1998 14:27:39 GMT Subject: Re: Sleep Deprivation From: cwrogers@one.net.au Newsgroups: alt.gothic On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:41:38 -0400, Marcus Pan wrote: >Did you ever face slap happiness? I mean that time when you've passed >the threshold of 24 hours straight awake and suddenly start blathering >all over the place As a recently ex-nightshift worker of three years and chronic insomniac with a body clock manufactured in Taiwan, I can say, wholeheartedly 'Yes', and at least three times a week. I remember once my flatmate woke up to find me standing above him, wide-eyed and giggling "Heeheeheeheeheehee! I haven't slept since Thursday!" And the number of times he's walked out his room at 7am, to find me sitting here typing - just as I was when he went to bed 8 hours earlier - I can't recall. But this is usually when my mouth engages, I'm sharing a few things with him, then I realise he's quiet, look over, and he's just staring at me with his cereal in his hand. The last night job I had was working the graveyards at a 24 hour video store. One night I was soooo rooted, and the store so empty, I was raving to keep myself awake. "IIIIIII'MM SOFUCKING *TIIIIIRED*, IIIIIIIIIII JUST WANNA *DIE!!* HUP! HEY!" Start bouncing around in circles. "I'M AWAKE! NO PROBLEM! I'M CAM THE HAPPY RABBIT! WOOHOO!" "Do you have 'Forrest Gump'?" "Whoops!"