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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:19 PM
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I need a job that lets me be a night owl....
Every night, I say I'm going to go to sleep early, and every night, it doesn't happen. I've always been a night owl, and 6 months of getting up before 6:30 every day hasn't cured me of it x(

Somebody convince me that leaving DU and going to sleep is a good plan...?
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Nite Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:21 PM
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1. You want to be me? n/t
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:24 PM
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4. No, I already *am* you...
Wait, can I even say that? It sounds wrong!

My mom says I used to get up and play at three in the morning... my poor mom!
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:22 PM
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2. Well, sleep is good for you.
And... um... it's restful?
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:25 PM
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5. Yes, yes it is
And I don't get enough of it! Ah well, I'll sleep when I'm dead ;)
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:23 PM
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3. Yeah I am too.
But I work in a hospital so the shiftwork is expected here if you're not in a white-collar job. Hard to go to sleep before you're tired.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:25 PM
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6. Do they switch your hours around a lot?
I have a friend who's a pediatric nurse, and I swear, I would go insane on her schedule... days, days, nights, days, whatever they feel like!
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:28 PM
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8. Not anymore.
Normally I work from 1 pm until 10 or 11pm during the week and third shift during the weekends I work. Her shift would be brutal. That shift rotation is a killer. We have a plant in town that makes JELLO and they rotate workers from days to nights and back. Really hard on them.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:30 PM
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10. That doesn't sound too bad....
'Cept the alarm clock with legs (2.5 year old daughter) doesn't let me sleep in much... maybe once she's in school, I'll be able to do something that fits my schedule more. But, I also think I'd miss her and Briarius a lot, if we didn't get time at night to hang out. Meh!
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:34 PM
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13. It isn't bad at all.
Actually it's the shift I prefer, but I had to work about 15 years of graveyard shifts to be able to do this. Yes, kids can really throw things outa whack sleep-wise. I've got a teenage daughter who's had a tough time learning that when Dad's sleeping is not a good time to play gangsta rap loud enough to shake the windows. :)
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:27 PM
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7. Swing shift is good
If you can find something.

I'm a night owl, too.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:31 PM
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11. Hi Floogeldy!
Tell me about your screen name? It makes me think of green slimy things :)
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:35 PM
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14. Hi Lynz
I don't remember where I got it. It think it was in a movie and spoken with an Irish accent. Kind of like it means "phooey" or "nonsense" or something like that. I honestly don't know why I picked that name. :)
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:36 PM
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16. LOL, thanks for humoring me!
I always want to know how/why people picked their names! (says me, of a super-boring user name;))
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:29 PM
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9. As Warren Zevon sang
Edited on Mon Apr-04-05 10:36 PM by ZombyWoof
I'll sleep when I'm dead.

You can always be my agent or something when I hit Hollywood by this time in 2006. ;-)

I'll pay you a generous 25%.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:32 PM
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12. Sounds fine to me...
Wait, would that mean I'd have to live near Hollywood? Blech ;)

Had a guy at work offer to give me 75% of whatever he won if I could win him radio-station tickets into a poker tournament (top pot, $650,000)... that would'a been a sweet deal!
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:37 PM
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18. hell no!
In the age of palm pilots and laptops, you can stay where you are.

It's the stupid actors who have to live near the belly of the beast! ;-)
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:39 PM
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20. Excellent
*said in best Simpsons voice*

Count me in, then! :)
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:42 PM
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25. Once in a while
You'll have to fly to LA for a meeting or negotiations.

But the drinks are on me when you do. :D

I'll throw in a bonus, like free tickets for Briarius, or tuition for Anja. :D
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:44 PM
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27. Even better!
Free drinks and I can bring my other half? Sounds like a deal to me!
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:36 PM
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15. Cat Burglar?
:shrug:
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:40 PM
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21. Hrm....
Having a light sleeper as a daughter, I've got some of the training down already... ;)
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:36 PM
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17. Ok, I'm going to bed.
Really. Seriously. :P
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CubsFan1982 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:37 PM
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19. No, you're not.
You have to stay and help me be steaming mad over the Illini! Wait! :P
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:41 PM
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23. Oh, ok!
Never mind about sleeping then :D

So tell me about it, as I am a non-sports type person... the only thing I watch even sorta-regularly is UConn basketball, and even that is a 'not usually'.
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CubsFan1982 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:45 PM
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29. We played fucking lousy, basically.
Went out there and played the first half like the Washington Generals, if that means anything to you. Add a dash of shitty refs and a sprinkle of play that would get one kicked out of a 4th grade basketball clinic, and you've got a recipe for a humongous choke job.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:40 PM
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22. nite
:hi:
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:42 PM
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24. Hi Jonny!
Apparently, I'm not actually going to bed yet :)

How's life? How was your rainy weekend?
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:43 PM
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26. can't complain!
I am not going to bed but i am going to go read! I will talk to you later! say hi to briarius!
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 10:44 PM
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28. Will do!
I'm actually going to go to sleep this time... Enjoy your book!
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