No New Record

I fell asleep with less than an hour to go before breaking my personal record for longest without sleep. Oh well. I'll tell you about the rest of my attempt--and the post-failure activities--here.

I went to church to help with the setup. As I said yesterday, I wasn't on the schedule, but the guy that was supposed to do lyrics called in sick, so I got the opportunity to run lyrics on zero sleep. I hit a wall with an hour before church, not sure if I could even stay awake for the next hour, let alone throughout the service. Luckily, I got my second--or by that time, probably my third--wind, and was feeling awake just in time. After the opening worship, as the band was walking off the stage, I got hit with a wave of nausea. I considered calling someone over, but it wasn't too bad, so I stayed at my post. The nausea passed, and during announcements, the other techies back at the main booth were trying to contact me. Unfortunately, my phone was living up to the $15 price tag, and not getting a signal. I hoped it wasn't important and continued on.

After getting home, I sat down to watch the US women play, and got my laptop out. Our internet was down--and as far as I know, it still is (I snuck onto campus because going a day without internet while needing to be in semi-regular contact with my mom is bad news). I fell asleep sometime during the first half of the game--between 2:15 and 3 in the afternoon. The record would have been at least tied if I had stayed awake until 3. After the game, I flipped through all the channels to find out what was on--the TVGuide channel doesn't actually show listings on Mediacom (making it pointless) and the internet was still down. At 9, I went to bed, and took my computer with me to use it as a portable DVD player. After the movie--the one about the old guy reading a book to his sick grandson--I went to sleep. When I woke up this morning, I checked to see if the internet was back up, and when it wasn't, I decided to sneak onto campus so I could get online--and get the bonus of setting up my laptop to recognize the UI's wireless system. That brings you up-to-date on how things are going, so I'll end here and continue getting my internet fix.