All nighter, ugh.

So I am basically physically and mentally useless once it gets past 11:00pm. If I am out with friends it is a little different (not that I actually go out with my friends much at all...but I digress). I have always heard about people pulling all nighters to study or to do this or that. I have made attempts to do an all nighter, but I fail after 11:00pm. However last night was a do or die kind of circumstance. I had NO other choice but to stay up all night to finish a report on gastrointestinal diseases and a powerpoint presentation that I was to give to the class today. I have known about it all semester long, and just kept putting it off because I had to study for this, or work on that... you know how it goes.
So this is my all nighter story.

I am trying to hold off on turning on my heater at home for as long as possible so I can save some money on my gas bill, so my house is FREEZING! Then I get to the point where I am actually willing to turn it on, but then I remind myself that we haven't used it in a year and I need to clean the filter, otherwise the house will smell like dust for a week. So the heater stays off. Last night I put on my thermals, grabbed the heating pad and put it on my lap, then wrapped my legs and feet in a fleece blanket. (Christmas gift idea: electric blanket!) The only problem I had after that was my hands. They were so cold, and they had to be exposed to do all the typing. How sad.

I also don't like silence for too long. I like background noise and I also like watching certain shows. Well, thanks to the marvels of the internet I decided to watch a few shows online while working on my report (Matt and I have 2 monitors for the computer so this is quite nice). And now I know what you are thinking...if I didn't watch anything while working on my report it PROBABLY wouldn't have been an all nighter...but that ruins the story!

I worked and worked, and ate leftover pizza once at dinner time, and then again at 10:00pm or so. I stopped to take a shower around 11:00pm (see...my body started shutting down). I came back and was able to work until 1:00am. I had to get some sleep, so I laid down in bed and set the alarm to get up in a few hours. I got back up at 4:00am and worked till 7:00am. I finally finished, right as it was time to leave for school. Luckily I had a little time to run to Kinkos (way to expensive by the way) to make all my handouts for the class and get back to class to turn in my report and give an awesome presentation! HOORAY!

So, not quite an ALL nighter if you count those 3 hours of sleep I had, but for me...that is close enough! I am not looking forward to doing that again, but hey...for anyone who says that procrastination is not the way to go, think again! I always work best under pressure! (Of course, it is easy to say now...let's just wait and see what grade I get :)

Happy sleeping!