So this was interesting. Or incredibly boring. At any rate, I'm going to update you on my night below:
10 p.m. Close my book and turn out the light. I have to be up at midnight for the rest of the night so I'm eager to grab what sleep I can.
10:02 p.m. Must sleep. Stop thinking about how I must sleep and just do it.
10:11 p.m. I'm cutting into valuable sleep time now. Maybe I should try counting backwards from 100.
10:12 p.m. Why can't I sleep? I need to sleep.
10:31 p.m. MUST SLEEP. STOP THINKING AND JUST SLEEP.
10:40 p.m. Surely sleep will come soon. If I'm not asleep by 11, I'm getting up.
11:26 p.m. Awake with a start. Is it midnight? Did I oversleep? No. In fact I woke up too early. Might as well get up.
11:28 p.m. Grumpily stumble to couch. Start reading, because I fear I will be unable to stay awake while reading later.
12:30 a.m. This book, Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly, is really good. I can't stop reading it.
2:30 a.m. Stop reading because I am starving. Why am I starving? If I were sleeping I would not be starving. Eat some Combos. Save some for later when I will inevitably be hungry again.
2:32 a.m. Decide to catch up on world news by watching two episodes of the Daily Show.
2:40 a.m. Funny bit about a failed ATF plan to keep firearms out of the hands of Mexican cartels makes me laugh too loud. Roommate is asleep.
2:51 a.m. Multi-tasking begins. Turn on the computer to surf web while being updated on world events.
3:30 a.m. Switch to a tape of my new favorite show, Top Gear on BBC America. I was telling friends at dinner tonight about its hilariousness. I had yet to see an unfunny episode. That is in until tonight. I think I'll do a lot of fastforwarding.
3:53 a.m. Come very close to falling asleep on the toilet.
3:55 a.m. Registered my new bike with campus police to help protect it against future theft.
4:01 a.m. Decide to catch up on local news while paying bills. CN2 delivers hard-hitting news about a man who drove into a tree during last night's storm. Is this meant to be Rock Hill's version of the Ryan Dunn story? It is decidedly tamer.
4:07 a.m. Decide to stop wasting my time and clean my bathroom.
4.22 a.m. Realize that the burning of bleach in my nostrils and the smell of it on my fingers will easily keep me up the rest of the night. Brilliant move, Stuckey.
4:40 a.m. Bons gazes at me bewilderingly as I move from cleaning the bathroom to cleaning the kitchen, yet she doesn't move.
5:20 a.m. Kitchen cleaned. Rugs back in place.
5:41 a.m. Watching Gnomeo and Juliet, which I rented. Strangely enough, I'm not buying it. Neither the feud between the two porcelain gnome families or the love between Juliet and her Gnomeo.
6 a.m. Gnomeo and Juliet is putting me to sleep, so I dust, read a magazine, surf the internet at the same time. Every time I stop to pay attention to the movie, my head starts to nod.
6:39 a.m. SPOILER ALERT. They've changed then ending of Shakespeare's classic so that it is no longer a tragedy. They also seem awfully fond of Elton John songs.
6:45 a.m. As the credits roll, I realize a lot of big name actors were voices in this movie, including Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine and Jason Statham. Amazing.
6:48 a.m. The night has really flown by. I realize it's two late to start the other movie I rented. Switch to a taped episode of Drop Dead Diva instead.
7:09 a.m. Dad called on his way to work!
7:34 a.m. Took Bons out to greet the day.
7:34 a.m. Took Bons out to greet the day.
7:40 a.m. Shower.
8:02 a.m. Breakfast of Champions: Kashi Cereal
8:13 a.m Vacuuming is the last piece of the cleaning puzzle!
8:30 a.m. Off to the hospital!
There it is. I can't believe I did it. Riveting, I'm sure. In my mind it was going to be way more interesting than this.
I LOVE this post. It is very much how I would expect you to spend the night staying awake. Right on down to the cleaning and laughing out loud. :)
ReplyDeleteI particularly enjoyed your 6:30 a.m. observation about "Gnomeo and Juliet" and the Elton John-heavy soundtrack.
ReplyDeleteWow, look at the misuse of "two" at 6:48 am. Can you tell I was tired?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely caught that "two". Did you keep this blog open all night and update as it went on? I don't think I could stay awake like you did.
ReplyDelete@Amie- yes.
ReplyDeleteAlso look at how at 6 a.m. I was dusting, reading a magazine and surfing the internet at the same time! I must be wonder woman. I meant that I did those things at the same time as watching the movie, but independently of each other.
This is like a bonus post: a movie review within a play-by-play of the Interesting Life of Jill Stuckey. Well done, my friend.
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad you shared the entire night. I literally laughed out loud at the falling asleep on the toilet.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: why didn't you go to sleep earlier than 10????
I had gone out to dinner for a friend's birthday and didn't get home until 9ish. Wouldn't have fallen asleep earlier anyway.
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