So I’ve pulled my first all-nighter of the year and I’m beginning to feel caffeine sickness… or whatever you call it. You know how when you’ve drunk too many beers and someone pours you a cup you’re just like, “Noooooo.” This is how I’m feeling right now, and there’s a cup of coffee right next to me. Delicious Dasani and Choc Full o’ Nuts coffee. I highly recommend it. Quite a clean coffee taste. But still, that would be like my sixth cup of the night. I really wish my game design class was an 8 am class so I could get it over with, come back, and sleep, but instead it’s an 11 am so I pretty much have to stay awake for the next SIX hours doing nothing because I know if I go to bed I will oversleep. As it is I won’t be able to sleep until after 3D Design tomorrow, the project for which I have also been working on all night, as well as the drawings for Digital Design “Ass”thetics.

About an hour ago I started feeling sick from the caffeine, so I figured the best thing to do would be to go get some fresh air. I grabbed my bass, which I just got today, and went to a bench in the courtyard and played it for an hour, watching the beginnings of the sunrise come up over the horizon. If you’ve never seen a Savannah sunrise, you’re missing out on something spectacular. Sunsets moreso.

Goddammit I’m passing out in my chair. This really isn’t good. My body has reached the point where the caffeine receptors are shutting down and it’s PAINFUL. Goodddd I want nothing more than to curl up in bed right now, but I’ll have to wake up at 8:30 to do my final sketch then get breakfast and go to class, come back by 2, finish my wire shoe (you have no idea how much of a pain in the ass project it is), go to 3D Design at 5-7:30, then stumble back and THEN I can sleep. So basically I have to go another 13 hours and 45 minutes without sleep. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG THAT AMOUNT OF TIME SEEMS RIGHT NOW?!

Let me give you a hint. In that amount of time, I could watch all 3 extended editions of “Lord of the Rings.” I could definitely watch all six “Star Wars” movies. I could play through a single disk of “Final Fantasy VII.” I could SLEEP. But no. Instead, I am stuck here, writing in my blog and waiting for the sun to come up so I can do my final drawing and not wake up the roommate. Last year when I pulled an all-nighter, so did my roommate. This year, different roommate, different attitude towards work, i.e. if you don’t get any, you don’t do any. He used hacks to get his classes I swear to god.

Ok, here’s an idea. I can take a three hour nap. Then, when I wake up, the coffee will be right there next to my bed already… I think I have to. I need to let me caffeine receptors recharge. Plus, after all that, I’ll still have time to do the last drawing. Okay, I’m going… DAMMIT. Ugh. This kind of plan always fails. Especially with me. I love sleep too much! I’ll just end up spilling luke-warm coffee all over myself and I’ll fall back asleep. Unfortunately I do not see another way out. My alarm is set. My coffee is ready. Away I go. Wish me luck. Maybe I can finally get this whole concept of a “nap” down.