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28 Hours a Day, 6 Days a Week
I was wasting my time a few days ago reading through all the xkcd comics, and I found this one quite interesting:

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Now I haven't researched it at all or anything, but I did see if I could possibly start actually doing this. The big plus is, as stated, that you get the whole saturday night awake, and not cause you stay up late but because it's actually day for you, so you aren't tired at all even at 8AM or whatever on some days. Also for me, this allows me to spend time with people in different time zones easily on some days. The biggest problem however is that it depends heavily on the flexibility of your working times.

If you work from home or have your own business, this is quite possible. However if you have a normal job, it's not really possible at all. If you go to school, it might still be possible. To see if it is possible for me I made a little spreadsheet and rearranged the hours a bit. My ideal one lets me go to school, stay up all saturday night, sleep more in the weekends than in the weekdays, and whatever. Here it is if you're interested:

http://tools.endlessparadigm.com/fsharel...&id=hb0wpx

The drawbacks are still:

- You have school at the end of the day on some days
- You live a completely different life than your friends and family
- People are awake when you're asleep, and may wake you up
- You miss stuff like dinner unless you live alone
- You only get 6 days a week

The advantages are great though:
- Stay up all saturday night without being tired!
- You are sometimes awake at night which gives you a lot of peace and quiet to work in
- You are awake at different times every day which gives you the opportunity to communicate with people in any time zone directly
- You get long days, so you can do more in a day and be more satisfied with what you've done
- You get nice long nights
- Because it's not synced with normal day and night anyway, you don't have jet lags if you just keep to your normal pattern

Anyone want to try this? My parents probably wouldn't let me...

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19/03/2008 08:15 PM
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sorry I'm on a 28 to 30 hours up then I'm down for 10 hours =)

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19/03/2008 08:38 PM
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Why not sleep 30 minutes every 3 hours? You'll be awake for about 22 hours, while still saying awake and alert

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19/03/2008 08:51 PM
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that's pretty neat, i might give it a shot if i have the chance too

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ameer Wrote:Why not sleep 30 minutes every 3 hours? You'll be awake for about 22 hours, while still saying awake and alert

Don't see that working out with school and stuff, and besides I can't sleep and wake up after 30 mins :P plus, getting up costs me about an hour anyway lol

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me i can sleep for up to 72 hours straight and then all i need is about 8-10 hours sleep and the cycle begins anew

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20/03/2008 06:03 AM
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I'd try this if I was living alone and worked from home :P







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