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I went to bed at 1:30 a.m, set two alarms and woke up at… 9:00 am! shoot! I don’t get it. I wasn’t that tired! Do I have to start taking my evening naps on the floor? Or set 120DB of death metal as my alarm? What more can I do? At this point, if I stick with it, the adaptation will easily last it’s way into my first week at school. Would the structure of school and homework make it easier to adapt? I’m thinking yes.
Interestingly, I still had a successful 9:30 nap. I was able to fall asleep and I woke up effortlessly, so the oversleeping hasn’t totally destroyed my polyphasicness.
Consistent with my idea to start a new programming project, I thought of a neat program to write that goes along with the memory stuff I’d been doing. Basically there’s a way to translate numbers into phonetic words that are easier to remember. They follow a certain code using the consonants in the word. For example the phrase “major setback” has the sounds m,j,r,s,t,b,k, which translate to 3640197. It’s really easy to translate a word into a number, but it’s a bit of a creative process to find a good word to represent a number (e.g. 314 could phoneticize to meteor or immature or metro because they all have the sounds m,t,r) so I wrote a computer program that looks through a phonetic dictionary, and shows you all words that match whatever number you input.
The problem, as it keeps coming back, is that I don’t have a project that both demands attention and takes a really long time. The memory program took me about an hour or two to brush up on my C++ skills. Then I coded it and went to bed with the satisfaction of having finished a project… So my body settled down for 7 hours of contiguous sleep.
Looks like I’m gonna have to start a MASSIVE new project if I’m going to pull through… like a 3D computer game, or learning morse code, or freeing Tibet. That should take more than 6 hours, right?
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The clear solution is for you to become a crime-fighting superhero at night. That would easily fill the nighttime hours and might even prove profitable if you get some action figures into stores!
Or you could learn a new language. But that wouldn’t be nearly as effective.
It follows that the best solution would then be a combination of both those ideas — fight crime at night in a foreign country. I’ll need my own private jet, but that’s the easy part. I’ll just build one out of duct tape, toilet paper rolls, and way too much freakin time.
YES.
Clever way to play off the fact that you already are! I saw you beat up this mugger just last night in via di santo spirito!
shhh!