Debate Tournament, the Aftermath: Days 15-16

How my life is now a disaster, part two:

After the tournament ended, I still had chemistry homework to do. Normally, functioning at about 80%, I could have gotten it done in twenty minutes, tops. That night, it took me until 3:30 am. I was barely awake; I kept nodding off, and when I wasn't, I just couldn't keep my eyes focused on the page. Even after a twenty minute nap, I was running at no more than 5% -- more like 1-2%. When I first staggered back to the dorm, my friends and dormmates who were in the lounge thought I was drunk or something (note: I don't drink)! I don't really remember much of it, but I do believe one of them said something along the lines of, "What did those people feed you?" Apparently, I act ten kinds of intoxicated when I'm that tired.

I sort of collapsed in bed at around 4:00 am. I didn't wake up until 3:30ish pm, when my tournament director calls to ask if I'd seen a particular item in the Tab room. At that point, I'd missed all my classes, including the chemistry class during which I was supposed to hand in that homework assignment! Also, despite the fact that two of those classes were lectures, where I wouldn't really be missed, one was a seminar, where the professor definitely noticed I was absent! I wrote him an e-mail, apologizing profusely and explaining myself. His response? Get some sleep; you need it. Good man, my professor.

The problem is, I'm no longer adapted to long periods of sleep time. The twelve hours didn't help me all that much; it felt like the equivalent of two or three REM cycles. So I was still very tired throughout the day, but the problem was, I had to catch up on work. I figured that perhaps the exorbitant amount of core sleep would take care of napping for the day (I was sort of hoping that the tiredness was just stress and would go away)... bad idea. I tried to do 3 + 3 today, and not only was I extremely tired the entire day, I was having significant difficulty getting up from my naps. Right now, I'm actually procrastinating on a paper due a few hours later. I anticipate taking a nap tonight, instead of getting any core sleep. It... won't be pretty.

Oh, and before I forget...
Short term memory tests
Numbers: 14
Letters: 13

I didn't do the words test because all three of together take quite a bit of time, which I haven't had much of these days. Also, interestingly enough, this is one of the few times when I've scored higher on the numbers than the letters.