Sleep Deprivation Again

Once again I find myself valuing far too much sleep far too much. So I’m going to start staying up a couple extra hours and getting up an hour earlier, thus extending my day by 3 hours. I should have no problem doing this, because it’s really all mental. I only find I miss the sleep if I expect hella hours a night. When I know I’m only getting a few, it doesn’t bug me. I figure I can take a nap after the duty day for a few minutes if I need to, and otherwise support myself through caffeine and activities. I am now in the M6 class, which requires tons of reading, so now at night and in the morning I can alternate reading and playing videogames/listening to music on my computer. This way, I can save money by not feeling like I have to buy new video games since I’ll have hundreds of the epic games I loved growing up at my fingertips, AND I’ll have all that extra time to read the next days material. Plus I can catch up on sleep on the weekends and further save money by not going into town. That’s an automatic $32 savings just in bus fare and movie tickets. I do really need to start paying back credit card companies. I need to talk to the cadre because I have heard rumors that active Army can get their bonuses now – and that would be great. That would be two or three credit cards paid off, plus I would have $10,000 paid to me over the next three years
We’ll have to see how well this reduced amount of sleep affects me, though. In whiskey school I almost never got tired, let alone fell asleep in class, but I always prioritized sleep and was usually one of the first ones in bed at night. I got decent test scores also. But I also didn’t study. I’m not sure about anything here, really. There are too many variables to know anything for certain. I’ve been listening to a lot of HIM lately. I am happy about this for a couple of reasons. First, I love the HIM symbol – hot topic has shit-loads of cool merch with it so now I won’t feel like a poser if and when I buy it, and second, because the music is so damn cool! It’s very melodic, pretty boy goth rock. Very open feeling, beautiful, rocking, atmospheric sound. I love it! Oh well, almost time to get ready for PT! See I love it! It was a bit of a pain to get up so early (0330) but I’ve already got a lot done. Haha not really – I just sync’d two of my SNES roms folders and wrote this, but still – that’s productive, right?

Jason