Anonymous asked: Hey Moran! Have you ever pulled a double all nighter? Like stayed up for 2 full consecutive nights?
Okay, so on the one hand: if you mean no sleep for two full nights, no. To date, I’m pretty sure the longest I’ve been awake at a stretch was around 40 hours. I’m weird enough all day, every day, there’s no need to add truly crippling sleep deprivation to that. I generally try to sleep at least two hours a night because it keeps me just this side of functionality.
On the other hand, fun story. If you were around in April, you may recall me making this post about Organic Chemistry pickup lines. Now, other than the fact that I’m still delighted with that last one on there, the reason I bring this up is because (ha) I made that post on a Monday night. I’d already been running on little-to-no sleep by then. By the following Saturday night, I had gone eight days on twenty-four hours of sleep total. I wrote two papers, did a problem set, and took an Organic Chemistry exam, among other things. I got all my work done on time (although the last day or so is kind of a blur) and this is why, in case you’re curious, @twistedangelsays calls me Hamilton.
Incidentally, I got like a 97% on the Orgo test.
exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear:
charlesoberonn:
Adding “as you do” after describing something that nobody does.
“So he went to hell to pick up his dead wife’s soul, as you do.”
“So she climbed up the tower with her robot hands, as you do.”
one time in an actual conversation I said something along the lines of “I made a flamethrower with a lighter and a can of compressed air, as you do” and the guy I was talking to was like “…no? I don’t???”
Oh God, I say this all the time, and when I started my junior year of college I was talking to someone in my Organic Chemistry class and I said “So I switched my major to pre-med at the end of my sophomore year and I’m gonna do it in two years rather than four, as you do,” and his jaw just dropped and he went “I absolutely do NOT.”
(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
It’s only Monday and I’ve reached the point of sleep deprivation where I’m making up bad Organic Chemistry pickup lines. Highlights include:
- Damn, girl/boy/gender-neutral/…comrade(?), I hope you’re a peroxide, because I’m having trouble getting oxygen.
- Are you a cyanide compound? Because those lips look toxic.
- Are you a carbene? Because this feels explosive.
- I’ll conjugate my double bonds with yours, all night long.
And my personal favorite….
- Are you an aromatic ring system? Because I can tell from here that you’re chemical perfection.
1) There’s totally a reason that they tell you not to put your pipette upright in beakers and shit, and my lab partner (read: only other person in my class) is terrible about it.
2) Hydrogen chloride should stay in its beakers at all times.
3) My lab partner takes orders well, at the very least, or else I’m really good at issuing orders in a crisis.
4) My reflexes are much better than I thought they were.