Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

I had “I am a boring person” written all over my forehead today. The rest of the world was going about their lives, while I slept the night shift away. I didn’t manage to get much sleep anyway, so I think I’ll fall asleep on the bus again tomorrow morning.

Thankfully, all those guard duties that I have done during National Service came to the rescue when faced with a night vigil, handling weird people who love to call at 3am in the morning. Sometimes, the adrenaline that comes when the call system beeps can jolt an elephant into a trampede: now my heart merely races like a suddenly cold-started car engine. (Is that good for my health?)

I am still trying to figure out what forms of entertainment are appropriate to keep me awake. So far, I’ve tried Monopoly, but I nearly fell asleep at one point when the eye-shutter threatened to crash down. That was it; I have to do something about it. Tonight, short of propping my eyelids with toothpicks, I’d do absolutely anything to keep my mind off sleep. Maybe even tie my hair to the ceiling, but it just isn’t long enough to do that.

The layout of the office is like a mini-track, so I figured that with 30m per round, I can clock one 2.4km run with 80 rounds around the office.

How do you keep your night vigils? I know that many of you have to sacrifice your sleep just to get your work completed: how about sharing some strategies that would keep you awake while you have to tackle the night shift?

Don’t be surprised if you see another post at 3am in the morning. That is me imploring for something to keep me away from the Z-monster.

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