Stoner

The Duff stayed up all night last night, working through his homework at his usual snail's pace. By the time he had finished, it was already 4am, and he thought he might as well not sleep. He did afterall sleep through the entire weekend, almost. 80% of it at least.

So his new daily timeline is something like this. He gets up around 7.45, rushes through his things and sets off for school by 8, and arrives in class in the nick of time at 8.05am. He has a high paced, power packed schedule until 5pm, with an hour's break inbetween for lunch and a short chat with his colleagues over his Nescafe 3-in-1 Intense coffee, which gives him the boost for the last 4 hours.

However, he finds that no matter what, he will stay up late each night as he surfs/ 'studies'/ chats/ suppers until 3 or 4am. Then the cycle starts again. That's why he manages to sleep so much on the weekends, as he replenishes the week's store of required sleep. In a way, he's rather prepared for the eventual work schedule of his job, flying to different timezones and having his biological clock rewound to that of one of Saturn's moons.


Anyway, due to all these factors, he sleeps quite a bit in class, especially when the teacher doesn't engage his brain in any activity other than rote learning. Whenever he doesn't need to think or visualise, his brain switches off, and his eyelids switch on their electromagnets. His classmates all jerk him around because of this, and try as he might, he always falls back into the same habit.

And as he daydreams sometimes to keep himself awake, he constantly brings himself back to his days in the university, where the same old habits had existed. Even in junior college, this pattern had emerged, albeit to a lesser degree.

Truth is, most teachers suck, and The Duff is a horrible student. These 2 factors make for horrible learning, and studying worse so. Therefore, he is challenging himself to sleep early for this week. Its a short one, just 3 nights, of early sleep. Nothing past 1am.

Small steps. To a large goal.