Cleanup Post/Dvorak, Day Whatever (I really can't be bothered to count.)

You may have noticed a whole slew of older posts cropping up. It's just a bit of cleaning up that's long overdue; I had a bunch of half-finished posts languishing on the blog dashboard.

In Dvorak news: 42 wpm, 3 mistakes. This may not be an accurate measurement of my current typing speed, as the text was particularly difficult. It was taken from Bram Stoker's Dracula, which opens with Jonathan Harker's journal, kept in shorthand and therefore naturally staccato and full of numbers (dates and times), locations, and punctuation.

On the other hand, good choice! (Fie on you, Stephanie Meyer!)

Oh, and I can't believe no one got the reference in the title of my most recent post. The Great Hiatus refers to the three-year interval between Sherlock Holmes's "death" in "The Adventure of the Final Problem" and his reappearance in "The Adventure of the Empty House".

Polyphasic Sleep: The Great Hiatus

Summer break began yesterday. I will be home most of the summer -- that, and travelling with the family (currently in Los Angeles). Ergo, I am readapting to the monophasic life. I've had some experience doing so, certainly, over spring break, but not for any significant duration. This should be quite an adjustment.
Of course, not enough time has elapsed, so I don't know exactly how it will go. Thus far, I seem to retain my ability to fall asleep very quickly in pretty much any situation. I find myself getting mildly sleepy in the afternoon, but that goes away. I'm having a bit of trouble sleeping through the night; I wake up at odd hours (at multiples of 90 minutes, no surprise there), but I can go back to sleep. It's still a bit surreal, though, to get out of bed and find that it's light out.

P.S. Five nerd points if you get the title reference.

Polyphasic Sleep: The Finals Crunch

It's that time of year again: finals to take, projects to finish, half a room to pack. I am less than halfway through finals week; one down, two to go. With two such finals weeks under my belt, I have a fair idea of what to expect this time around. I will sleep no more than twenty minutes at a stretch the day before each final, studying (cramming, really) through the night and/or day until literally ten minutes before the exam begins, skipping whatever meal falls closest before the test, prevailing upon my roommate to bring me back a banana or the equivalent. I have terrible study habits, I know.
And then, after my last final on Wednesday, I will have to throw myself into packing; I leave on Friday. The storage service people come to take my stuff away (everything I'm not schlepping to my aunt's garage or flying home) Thursday afternoon. Hence, I will be packing through the night. I've accumulated more stuff than I had expected to, I'll reckon.
What does this mean for my sleep schedule? I'll be skipping a lot of core sleep, and will probably crash afterwards. By crash, I mean something like six hours, or seven and a half, or so.