*Transcendental *Logic

My father always said he did his best studying while walking along railroad tracks and his second-best studying with golf on TV in the background.

See, railroad tracks keep you from getting lost or wandering somewhere you shouldn’t go (unless you count railroad tracks themselves as somewhere you shouldn’t go, but daddy and I are both pshaw on that one); you can just follow them until you’re tired, and then you still have to walk back, so you get even more studying done than you’d intended.

Golf, assuming you like TV noise in the background (I really don’t), is nice because every time you look up it’s the same thing — a nice sunny day outdoors — and you feel relaxed and don’t worry that you’ve missed anything.

Now, dad’s done more studying than I have by several miles, but my favorite study times?  The arsecrack of dawn, preferably with the windows open and coffee on.  It doesn’t really matter if I’m “still up” or “up early” (or, in the case of my current schedule, a little bit of both); there’s something about dawn.  Ever play “crack the whip” with a chain of people on skates?  Dawn feels like the time the world has the most momentum, and a little effort goes a long way. 

Either that or I’m just bleary enough at dawn to justify to myself the putting in of less effort.  Possible, I suppose!

Overslept last night by 2 hours — utterly my fault.  I got up on time (at 1 a.m) and was quite awake and refreshed…but so coooolllld, so I crawled back in the blankets with no alarms on (not that crawling back in is really ever okay, but most of the time if I do it I’m smart and set a timer for 5-10 minutes), and the next thing I knew…yeah.  Though to be fair, it’s the same sort of thing that could happen on a monophasic schedule, but without the threat of being late for work!  I’ll be a little sleepy until this afternoon probably, but I’ll live.  Everyman is pretty flexible about one-off mistakes like that.  If you think about the “continuum of sleep schedules” from mono to pure-poly with Everyman in the middle, it makes sense that monophase is very forgiving of oversleeping generally, and pure-polyphase not at all (in that it will wreck your whole day usually), then yup, again Everyman is in the middle here.

And a quick metasleep note:  A year ago, the coolest thing in the world to me about polyphasic sleep was that one in a million people could adapt to Uberman (or Dymaxion, it looks like) and feel great on 2 hours of sleep a day.  Now I’ve found something even cooler — that much more people, if not all of them, could adapt to Everyman and cut their sleep in half with no (yet known) ill effects!  …Darnit, school needs to let up on me so I can really get down to writing this book!!

Anyway, happy four a.m. ya’ll…I’m gonna play some video games before I have to leave for work.  ;)

-PD

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