Late Nighter's.

[Mänwe]

Well as I sit here at 3:45am in dark and cold Newcastle, my mind reverts to the "You know when you are addicted to the Barrow-Downs when..." thread, in particular to the comment where members end up watching the "Who's online" page.

Well I think I am turning into one of them...I can't seem to log off. That and the thought of missing a good thread.

I was wondering if there were any others out there who are in the same situation, finding themselves online till late. This thread for me is rather like the "Late Night Bus" here for students who find themselves out past the closing time of public transport after a particularly heavy night and in need of a lift home!

Ahh what we would do without the "Late Night Bus"...although you have to find your way back to the Union first...

[Later Edit]
Note I would be out with them if it were not for a fencing farsity match tomorrow, I mean today. I've signed a "no-alcohol policy" before matches....something bought in by those pesky "New Shire" representatives I'm guessing! Blast
them! :D

That and revision is upon us students, the holy hours of "cramming" have begun. So while I write and read fantastic threads, I revise.

Or if you are not a "Late Nighter" then please, keep me and any other late nighters company... :p

[Mänwe]

:D Indeed since I wrote this post, I've been quite disconcerted by the amount of time Jenny seems to have spent viewing this thread....of course I am honoured.

(However the above proves that there really needs to be a "Who's Watching" option.)

[Farael]

Well, it being 1 32 AM I think I qualify for this thread.

The only problem is that, according to my calculations, it should be 7 35 AM in England, and perhaps any English early-birds might be around... furthermore, it should be an hour later in Germany (right?) that means that some of our German downers that go to work early in the morning....

And that's why one can come to the 'downs at any hour and find someone around... we are all over the place!!

Yet, in my case, I'm afraid that I didn't stay up 'downing... I stayed up studying Biochemistry. But of course, before heading to bed, I just had to check the downs.

Good night everyone, and good morning for those of you in other timezones... Farael's late-night bus is doing its last run, straight to bed. With a quick stop at the bathroom I guess :p

[Brinniel]

I must admit, every night I'm on the Barrow Downs until the wee hours of the morning. This is mostly because I'm in the middle of doing schoolwork- I use the Downs to take a break and as a further excuse to procrastinate. Like right now, it's 2:45am and I still have two papers to write. Though, on weekends I sometimes stay on the Barrow Downs late to write posts for the RPG I'm in. As a perfectionist, it takes me hours to write those things, so I'm usually up until 3 or 4 in the morning.

Okay, I really should get back to work... :rolleyes:

[Bêthberry]

Sometimes when insomnia hits, I'll fire up the beast and come to BD to read a few threads.

Oh dear. I hope that doesn't mean I expect threads here to be soporific. ;)

[Lush]

I used to be quite the night owl... And then I ruined everything by getting a job. :(

[Mänwe]

Lol, tales one and all! I am glad that we have all experienced the same thing. :D I feel that tonight will also be a long one...exam on Friday.

Farael, very true, welcome to the club!!

Brinniel, you and me and both, though I am studying Biology.

Bêthberry;

I'll fire up the beast

What type of electronic wizardry does this beast belong too? Sounds arcane to me.

Lush, lol, I suppose that is the advantage of being a student still, many hours to do as you wish, often spent doing the wrong thing..

[alatar]

I find it spooky sometimes at night when, looking at the "Who's online" list, it's only me. Feel like I should go around the Downs and check the windows and doors and turn down the lights; maybe get out a dust mop and clean the floors.

When I am on at night I rarely post as at least one child, by then, has made it into the room, and not only is typing the dark hard on the eyes ("Where did the 'k' key go?") but also it gets the little ones stirring, which is never a good thing.

Stay awake while you can; eventually getting up even after a night's sleep (not that I have experienced that in many years, but I've heard about it), when you're older, can be rough in itself.

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

I always get creeped out when I'm the only one online....it feels so....lonely, somehow.

Bb: next time you have trouble sleeping read through the first 18 pages of the Canonicity thread....

[Lush]

Lush, lol, I suppose that is the advantage of being a student still, many hours to do as you wish, often spent doing the wrong thing..

Hahaha. Well, that was me, until this past May! I went to bed at six, got up at two, and lived on beer.

The 'Downs was a nighttime obsession particularly in my freshman year, as I recall. ;)

[Bêthberry]

Bb: next time you have trouble sleeping read through the first 18 pages of the Canonicity thread....

Hmm. Good suggestion, although I hardly think it would take 18 pages. ;)

[Durelin]

If I'm up late or early, and I turn on the computer, I always end up sitting in front of the 'Downs...clicking on the RP forums at least fifty times...refreshing the page every so often...

I can waste a long while just doing that.

And to think I hate feeling unproductive... :rolleyes: :smokin:

[Mänwe]

Hey! Its almost 2:00am!! Mhm, and I had promised myself an early night.

Lush, :D I'd give that a 10 out of 10 on the "Sensible Factor"! And rate you getting a job 1 out of 10 on the "Sensible Factor". :p

Durelin, I know just how you feel. Wight should keep track of who refreshes the greatest amount of times.

[Eonwe]

hehe same here only its 11:30...

[Boromir88]

Lately I've found myself staying up in the 'wee hours of the morning.' If you check some posts (and do the conversation) I'm sure it'll work out to about 1:30-2:00 in my time zone. Mostly because it's been rather smooth sailing only having half work days up until the start of the New Year...and I'm usually away at nights doing something.

So, when I get back and don't feel like sleeping yet I'll come and check out the downs well into the 'morning.' :p

[Mänwe]

You are a lucky man, Boromir88, university has shown a nasty habit of springing lots of rather important things at the most inappropriate of times, namely, exams and coursework on the last day of the semester no less!!

Though to all the "Late Nighter's" I myself will be "chickening out", as I have the exam tomorrow an early night is called for, let the little grey cells rest.

And with that I leave, with a rather fun new avatar!

[Kath]

Well, it's now 2:33 so I think I qualify for this.

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if I actually did something constructive while up at this time. :rolleyes:

[Folwren]

It's only 10:30 now for me, but I think I've gotten as late as 11:00. That's nothing compared to 2 or 3, though. How can you college students stand it? I think I'd die if I stayed up till then and got up the next morning for classes.

[Brinniel]

Ah, just wait until you're in college, Folwren. :p

While I've always been quite a late-nighter during the weekends and summer, during school nights in high school, I always was in bed no later than midnight. The difficult thing I've discovered about going to bed in college is that the entire campus is loud and active until around 2ish. I have a tendency not to go to bed until everyone else does, which is a problem since one of my suitemates doesn't sleep until 7am, if at all. The other issue is that the work load in college is so much heavier and I frequently pull all-nighters (something I suggest avoiding). Of course, one large difference from high school is that I don't have a parent nagging at me to go to bed (and I have no self-disipline). :rolleyes:

With my computer next to my bed, I find it hard to resist checking the BD before I sleep, and when I'm on the computer, time just passes so quickly. Right now, it's already 3:45. One thing I do notice about the Downs at night is how empty it is. Right now, there is only one other member online aside from me...

[Kath]

Folwren, I have very few early lectures so it's not too bad for me.

[Folwren]

Wait till I'm in college, huh? Well...one would think that is when I'd find out, but I am set and determined to get eight hours of sleep as often as possible during my college days. That means, getting my homework done during the day and if I don't have it done by night, not having any computer time. I don't know if my ideas will work, but I tell you - I've talked to too many friends this semester who are hardly having any time for meals or sleeping and I am convinced that sixteen hours of wakefulness is enough time to complete classes, homework, and necessary meals to stay healthy. And that will also provide eight hours of sleeping time. Whether it gives time for being socailable or visiting you chaps here on the Downs and e-mail friends....well...when I'm paying hundreds of dollars for college, college will come first. Sorry.

I've given this a lot of thought. Sorry to have given you a lecture...

-- Foley

[Farael]

**Disclaimer: This rant is by no-means an answer to Folwren but rather, a rant on why life is so hard on us University/College students. She has the right of doing things whichever way she wants, and of course, once she gets to University she might have a different experience than mine. This rant is just 'cos I like ranting**


Let me give you a quick run-through of the life of a University science student.
Let's assume for a moment that I am taking 5 courses. Not only that, but 5 third/fourth year science courses, which means that they all have a lab.

Now, The lecture portion for each course is about three hours a week, times five, 15 hours a week. Then we have a three hour lab for each course, times five another fifteen hours.

Here's where the fun begins.

Before each lab you need at the very least, to read up on what you are doing and sort of figure out all the procedures, if you don't know them, read them up. That is if you are lucky. If you are not, you also need to write a pre-lab exercise. A pre-lab exercise may take more than two hours and a half, reading up on the lab may take a bit more than an hour... let's make an average and call it two hours per lab. Times five, ten more hours.

Having fun yet? because after each lab you need to write some sort of report... a formal lab report may take more than ten hours of work (MUCH more if they want a detailed one) but that's only once a term (usually)... let's make it an average of three hours to make all calculations and the short write-up for a report that's not the formal. That's another fifteen hours.

Let's sum it all up 'till now. 15 hours of lecture, 15 hours of labs, 10 hours of pre-lab, 15 hours of reports.... 55 hours and counting.

Yes, that alone is more than a full-time job. But there's more!

At university they recommend that you study three hours for every hour of lecture. Now, I think that's a bit too much, but all in all it usually winds up to two hours per hour of lecture. Not all at the same time, some weeks I need to read more for one class, some weeks more for another, but that's about an average... and it adds up another thirty hours.

That's 85 hours a week of schoolwork. Divide it by seven and you get about 12 hours a day.

I suppose that, as Folwren hinted, if you are willing to leave 4 hours to "live" (including eating and traveling to and from your classes) that's about ok.. but let's face it, IT'S UNIVERSITY! (College for you Americans). Parties, Friends, Socials, Events, Sports.... Barrow Downs... No matter how hard you try to avoid it, sooner or later you will show up at a party, or go watch your school's team, or just hang out 'till late with your friends.

And I mean, what's an hour of sleep, if you can spend it with your buddies relaxing?

A friend of mine who is in Engineering (a rather hard career if you ask me, if they take a bit MORE than a full course-load every year it takes about three years to graduate, if they take the minimum they must to stay in the faculty it takes eight years) said very wisely: "These can be the worst three years of your life or the craziest eight. You need to find the point that will be the best for you."

Moral of the story?
a) DO NOT be a science student... even though Arts students have big papers to write... trust me, labs are twice as much pain, and the formal reports are not any shorter.
a2) If you are a science student, don't take a full course load after first or second year!!!
b) Whatever branch of studies you choose, try to enjoy it as much as possible! There's more to University/College than books and grades... find out a nice balance of fun and hard work and your experience will be quite enjoyable.

Did I find that balance? Not yet... but I'm working on that :D

[Durelin]

College next year for me, too. And late nights for me...too. Likely spent writing posts instead of doing work. (And I'm not touching the science. Yay odd-ball-don't-even-exist-at-most-universities/colleges and likely-going-to-be-lazy Classics majors!)

In other words: if you think my RP characters have problems now, then you should just wait till next fall... :p

Farael - Your schedule is a lot like some of my friends'...I'll be remembering you guys when I start complaining about my schedule next year! :rolleyes: ;)

[Celuien]

My worst college semester was as follows:

Physics (3 hour weekly lab, 2 hours of recitation, 3 hours of lecture)
Organic chemistry (3 hour lab, 3 hours of lecture)
Cell biology (3 hour lab, 3 hours of lecture)
Genetics (3 hour lab, 3 hours of lecture)
Biostatistics (3 hours of lecture)

Each of those lab courses had, as Farael said, prelab work for the procedures and lab reports (usually about 5 pages and then with pretty tables and figures to do as well). I was just a little overloaded. :rolleyes:

I'm occasionally here at about 2 AM, mostly when I'm assigned to work odd hours. The 4 pm to midnight shift is irritating. :mad:

[Folwren]

Very well put, Farael. I can see the difficulty in juggling 85 hours of school work a day. But that's not the work load that my friends have been trying to handle. I talk to people who have probably eight to ten hours of work to do a day, including classes, lectures, meetings, and homework. That's as much time as I spend at work. And they're having problems eating properly and sleeping enough and I can't figure out why. I don't plan on getting a degree in Science. If I get a degree in anything (I'm not even sure I'm going to college), it'll be in English or some sort of Business (I may become a secretary).

I think, for what I am going to be doing in college, I will be able to get my necessary sleep. I won't be visiting the Barrow Downs at 1:00 a.m. Whenever I stay up that late, I'm useless the day after. I'd schedule myself, and I'd hope to get some time here.

Of course, you just watch - I join college and I totally go against what I've been saying here. :rolleyes: That would be poetic justice, wouldn't it? So far as I know, I really am intending to eat and sleep...but necessity may change ideas.

-- Folwren

P.S. Am I sounding like a snob? I don't mean to be. I'm actually venting a lot of frustration. Two friends have just recently cried on my shoulder (it's a saying) about how awful they've been taking care of themselves during the school year, how stressed out they are, how little sleep they've been getting, and on and on......I can't fathom it. But then, I'm not a college student.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Second hour after midnight is about to go here, so I just want to add to this company...
I don't feel up to writing something long now, but I want to add to these college talks. Shortly and briefly: it's good to enjoy it, nothing stressy, the world doesn't depend on it, even you don't depend on it, you can make all in no problem if you know where to seek help. Of course one has to be careful though, since the schedule can be nasty if you don't realize quickly where you are. You can miss the train pretty easily. But, if you enjoy the study, you possibly would also care for it up to the point that you attempt to catch up with the studying plan, if you get what I mean. But even if you enjoy it, even if you are running with the train, you'll eventually find out (and that's right in any case as far as I know - if anyone has other experience, please let me know), if you have courses 16 hours or 4 hours per day, you'll realize that in the end it's the same, even if you had no courses at the time, you'll find that you are busy anyway.
See, I'm not much of a night owl, and I returned home at about 17:45 today, which is nice time (I have also a job for 10 hours a week, which means generally 2 hours per day, as an assistant in elementary school on the "step-by-step" educational project, if you heard about it). The last 6 hours I have spent with preparing for tomorrow, and, uh, a little bit looking here and there on the Downs :D You know, uh, just to get my mind off things :p But as you see, generally I manage to finish by midnight. I'm waking up at 6:30 tomorrow.
Okay, this was neither short nor brief.
Blaah blah blah.
Good night all.

[Valesse]

I used to only be able to really check the barrowdowns around 1 AM during this past semester... Needless to say thats not a popular time for downers, so the barrow got a rather lonely feel to it.

Lately it's just been me banging my head against my desk with that wonderful RPG of Glirdan. I love it, but it makes me feel so impatient! :rolleyes:

There was one time when Valier and I were the only ones online and we were both on our game "Which Downer Am I"-wise. Partly because that was the only active thread at the time and we were both bored stupid. I still wish I could have seen some of those expressions of other players waking up to discover that.

[Valier]

Ahhhh I remember that night fondly Valesse....the days when I had no job...heehee :p

I hate coming here late at night and there is only me and one other person online, but of course they are invisible. :rolleyes:

[Mänwe]

Here here! On those University rants. I am also glad to see we have a large population of science students! I'm one too. Celuien what are studying now?

Farael, kudos to you for putting up with it so far and for even choosing to take on a full schedule.

Although somewhat different, I know that as an A-level student we had the choice to continue on four subjects or drop one when going onto A2. However only the "silly" (like yourself. :p ) or the "brave" (like yourself :p ) or the very clever (like yourself :p ) or those who wished to better themselves (like yourself) chose to do so.

I am none of the above and so chose to drop one! This gave me an extra six free study periods a week, and went a long way to help me obtain a much higher quality three A-levels than if I had chosen four. Plus extra time to muck around!

And as a Biologist student now at University, I am experiencing and foresee in the future, busy schedules also. And I am sure if there is ever the choice to do more or less modules, (rather bleak because the module system works on a number of points set for every student, who must make up those points with modules. Each module being a set amount of points, which I think is used in every year.), I know I will probably take the option of choosing less...

Also to tack on the end of you rant, I would just like to add, to those in first year of college/university, that the FIRST year is still an IMPORTANT year, and not a year to "doss" around as many second, third, fourth years have told me. A solid ground in the first year obviously promote your understanding in the second year.

Dammit you older people, stop saying us "freshers" can join everything because missing lectures in the first year doesn't matter, it DOES!

Valesse, I know what you mean about the emptyness of the site. Being up occasionally till 4am the past few hours are bleak, and as Kath has said, I too wish I would do something constructive during that time.

But for some reason I can't, I end up just reading and saving webpages to respond to later. At that time I think I must be slightly comatose...

[Lhunardawen]

How can I not love you, Farael? You just practically summed up my life! :D

Dammit you older people, stop saying us "freshers" can join everything because missing lectures in the first year doesn't matter, it DOES! I'm willing to bet that I'm not an "older person," but I completely agree. Even when you think you have the advantage of having taken up some of the freshie courses in high school, it's still not worth skipping classes.

I'm not exactly a late nighter, as you would put it, and in this context, myself though. Maybe I should count it a blessing that I don't have immediately available internet access, because I doubt I would be able to resist the temptation. (Who can resist sneaking into the Downs while intermittently looking up the MSDS for benzaldehyde, or whatever?) And it so happens that I'm a bit of a night owl, so I might not sleep at all in that case. And unfortunately I don't drink coffee at all, so...that has to have some adverse effects.

I can just imagine, however, that the Downs helps one keep awake while doing a post-lab report in the wee hours of the morning. The problem is that one might tend to forget the lab report entirely, and write an RPG post instead. :D

[Celuien]

Here here! On those University rants. I am also glad to see we have a large population of science students! I'm one too. Celuien what are studying now?
I'm now a medical student, eagerly counting down to graduation in May. So I can pull even more all nighters next year. :cool:

Reading the 'Downs was a helpful break from writing lab reports in the computer lab. Registering and writing is even better. :D

[Farael]

Farael, kudos to you for putting up with it so far and for even choosing to take on a full schedule.

Oh, I fear I was misnuderstood.... I did that insanity on first year, then on second year I only took four courses and did MUCH better... and this term I only took three 'cos I was working part-time but it was a bad move since my job was awful and it took away much more studying time than what I expected.

We are quite a few Science students here... problem is, we are often over-shadowed by the much more talkative, and much more experienced in writing, arts students.

I think we should all get our heads together and start a "Science of Tolkien" thread... in the Mirth section. That could be quite amusing :p "Sexual Dymorphism in Ent populations" or "Genetic engeneering: Orcs, a better elf?" or perhaps "Mt. Doom and carbon monoxide emissions, Mordor not complying with the Kyoto agreement?"

Hmmm I think I"ve got some work to do now :D

[Gothmog]

Though it's still evening here, I hope I can post? :)

Farael, that's a great idea! And I don't mean just because I've thought about it earlier ;) Actually I've been thinking about science-ME for a long time now. For example inheritance, does it work in the same way as in our world? And is there any evolution at all? The world doesn't seem evolve, and as it was created complete, maybe it doesn't need to evolve!

A half serious, half nutty thread on the subject would be perfect! I'm looking forward to it...

[Celuien]

*dies laughing at the prospect of writing a paper on Balrog Wings* :D

[Brinniel]

All you people remind me why I'm not a science student. I haven't touched the subject for three years, and the thought of it makes me shudder. :rolleyes:

I go to a liberal arts and communications school (theatre, film, audio, writing, marketing, journalism, political comm. , and comm. disorders are the basic majors available), but that doesn't mean it's any easier. As a freshman, I just completed my first 17 credits, which is about 18 hours of classes a week, plus 8 hours of work study (I work at a scene shop which involves lots of manual labor- it can be exhausting from time to time). Actually, that's not too terrible. Of course, I always have at least four hours of homework each night, usually more. All that involves is reading and writing. Through most of the semester, I mostly struggled to adjust to the college life- high school was a breeze for me- but now I have to actually really work, something extremely difficult for a procrastinator. And of course, all my work was done on the computer, which is terribly distracting (the Barrow Downs is just a click away!). Though, what's even more distracting is what goes on in the dorm. I live with five other girls and there's constantly other people around, and lately I feel like a hermit crab locked away in my room attempting to complete my schoolwork. Not to mention, the weeks after Thanksgiving are absolute chaos. In one week, I had six papers/projects due, the longest being eight pages. For one who typically wrote two page papers throughout high school, a task like that is just overwhelming. And I promise, during that one week, eight hours of sleep per night was impossible. I'm just glad it's over...

As a film major, my schedule will only get worse in the future as I become involved with shoots and other stuff. I've seen the upperclassmen and how crazy their lives are, and I realize I'm going to need to start managing my time better. I didn't join a club this semester- instead I chose to take some time to adjust- a very smart thing, I think. But next semester, I plan to join a film club, which means I'll get to spend much of my free time working as a crew member in film shoots. Plus, I plan to work more hours during the week.

Folwren, I wish you the best in college and hope your plan works out. Some people can handle stress better than others. From the beginning, I knew I'd be pulling all-nighters. After all, in high school I was already living off five hours of sleep (of course with the time I had to wake up in the morning, if I got eight hours of sleep, I'd be going to bed at 8:30pm :rolleyes: ). Meanwhile, I have a friend from high school who always got her work done ahead of time and went to bed plenty early- I'll have to ask her how she's handling her workload now that she's in college. Just a word of advice: if possible, don't ever schedule an early class. All year, I have to be up for 8:30 classes almost every day....and well....it's absolutely miserable. Oh, and when you're in college, napping is no longer for little children... :p

[High King Fingolfin]

I always find it interesting when it's not late at night for me, but I see someone else on and I realize that it's about 5:30 AM for them.

[Mänwe]

Farael, you pick the topic and i'll be there! Great idea. Oh and very wise on ridding yourself of the hectic schedule after your first year. :D I will follow suit.

Brinnniel, kudos for you for making those 8:30am starts. I must admit I find it hard to make 9am ones.

Fingolfin, :D

[Naria]

Have you ever been so tired that you can't sleep? I guess it would be like getting a second wind. It's almost 3am where I am...YIKES! OH and I just checked Who's online and guess what?! I'm the only one. How very lonely indeed :(

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Actually the Downs is the reason I have this weird sleeping pattern. . .

In the begining (over a year ago) I would sit up watching the quiz room until 12 maybe 1 am and then slowly it would get later and later, until I was not able to go to bed before 3 am. It all culminated in a marathin msn conversation which started pretty early in the evening and on my part ended at 7am in the morning.

Now I am more likely to get to bed around 4-5 am than 3 am, but one thing has changed. These last months my addiction has kind of disapeared. I no longer feel the need to reply to almost anything and where I would refresh the page every other minute, I will now only check in a few times a day(with exeptions).

I think it is because I have started LJ and because I have gotten more busy these days.

[The Might]

well, I guess I qualify for this category as well...last visited the site today at 01:56 CET
anyway, currently this isn't a problem, since I am on vacation, but when it's over I guess I'll have to stop staying up late, it would probably have a bad influence on my performance in school. :p

[Mänwe]

Naria, yes, I call that second wind 'Barrow-down' syndrome. However I think it a wonderful affliction, something I think The Might should embrace. :D I long ago gave up resisting the alure of the Downs.

Rune how could you loose the bug!?! :p

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I don't know. . .It just happened

[The Might]

well it's 2 o'clock again, and I'm here looking at the Downs...which is GREAT as far as I'm concerned...:D
well I am actually online only 50% of the time, the other 50% I spend looking for quotes :p

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I am watching comedy while having a democracy talk with Formendacil!

quite the mixture, everybody should try it

[The Might]

well...one hour, and 2 South Park episodes later, I am still on the Downs, and I am starting to ask myself when I'll go to bed...
At least I haven't ended up as bad as in my last summer holiday when I sometimes happened to go to bed at 5 or 6 AM...the birds were already singing outside :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I decided to see my comedy DVD again and replace Formendacil

[The Might]

well, it's 3:38, and I finally decided that I must go to sleep...it should probably only take about 30 minutes till I'll do so...
I really dunno why I do this...I mean, I could just as well go to sleep earlier and then wake up early and stay longer online on the downs in the morning
I guess I like the darkness outside or many maybe not being disturbed while typing...dunno :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I have been thinking the same thoughts, but for some reason I am just more comfortable sitting infront of the computer during the night.

plus at this time I can chat with american/canadian downers

[The Might]

well, at 4:13 I finally decided...I am turning off my PC and goinf to bed...NOW !
see you tomorrow...I mean today :)

[Mänwe]

Rune, Might, I thoroughly enjoyed your running commentary..and the birds are an excellent way of judging the time of morning! I tend to be on the Downs in the evenings but am distracted by the films.

At the moment I am watching "License to Kill", Dalton has to be one of least favourite bonds, but there we are...on a side note Casino Royale was voted Britain's movie of the Year 2006...I do feel sorry for Formendacil. What was the comedy DVD you replaced him with? :D

[Durelin]

It's Rune's late nighting that enabled me to learn about his not-so-secret-now fear of turtles. :eek: :p

[The Might]

Fear of turtles ?
I remember I had that once after I saw the ninja turtles...it's forunately gone now
I just realised that by staying up so late each night I'm getting in pretty good shape for the New Year's Eve party on Sunday...so yay to the Downs !!!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I did not replace Formendacil with a dvd. . .I was watching it while chatting with him and then again when he had been replaced with Di.

Thanks Durelin. . .I tell you one kind-of-secret and you blur it out!

I actually loved the ninja turtles, especially Raphael.

[The Might]

I however always found their adversaries quite strange...
Turtles are nice...I wonder if any are mentioned by Tolkien?

Anyway...I just realised that today (no longer tomorrow) is the last day of the year...

So before I forget to do this I'm going to wish a "HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!" to all the late nighters around here, and may we spend many sleepless hours together on the Downs in 2007. ;)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Oh well at first he had written Shelob and Ungoliant as giant turtles, but decided that speed would be a problem and therefor chaged it.

Once again I am sitting up late, it is almost 4 am and I was planing on being in bed by 3 am the lates. . . .:rolleyes:

[The Might]

don't worry, you're well trained for tomorrow...er....today
but when you stay up so late I guess New Year's Eve isn't so special anymore...:(

I now just realised we have the same time zone ;)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

well, you still get to blow stuff up!

I really should be in bed as I need to get up relatively early tomorrow. . .

[The Might]

So do I...if 13:00 can still be considered early (it is to me)

And yes, that's it, blowing stuff up is still special about today !

I enjoy doing that, I would probably have made a good Orc. :D

[Mänwe]

I am sure all these late nights are addling your brains, fear of turtles, blowing things up!?!

Such distinguished company..I have found i've been going to be relativly early, usually 2am, though I am not on the Downs. I think it's the terrible adverts I have to put up with between programs that just puts me off staying up late, that and a terrible home connection

Whereas at uni I don't have tv, so no adverts, and Uni broadband connection, I am looking forward to getting back.

And a "here here" to many more years of sleepless nights!

[The Might]

Unfortunately...or maybe not I have to stop with the late nighting, and tomorrow will be the last day I can be on so long, cause on Monday, it's back to school...
Fortunately I'm not having such a hard time there yet so staying active won't be a problem for me :D

[Mänwe]

You will be sorely missed at the "club". :D But please do continue to visit even if it is early.

[The Might]

I definitely will...the first two weeks are really easy since this is the end of the first semester and since all our marks are already ready we're not going to do much...but afterwards it's back to the books for me

[Mänwe]

Well good luck with the work, I myself have a few weeks of revision till exams and in that time the lecturers are not going to bother us, which is nice of them..2:10am and i'm working on some new avatars, unfortunately the avatar restrictions are slightly annoying, however I know that it is necessary.

[Kath]

I'm just taking the freedom of a full week off to hang around on here late at night! A post for the Mead Hall is slowly taking shape, but with how lazy I'm being at the moment there's no way it'll be done before I go to bed.

[Mänwe]

:D No doubt it will be a perfect post then, the longest thought over and taken are always the best.

[Kath]

Or terrible because I've over-thought it!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

A full week dedicated to the Downs!?

Is there not laws against that?

[Kath]

:D Probably! But still, time for bed now. Til tomorrow all.

[Mänwe]

Well when it's posted, I'll read it and tell you. :D

[The Might]

hmmm...my plan didn't really work, and because I was used to going to bed so late I wasn't able to sleep much last night (3 hours) resulting in a not very nice first day of school...but I guess I'll eventually have to get used to it

[Mänwe]

Lol, I know what you mean. I'm sure you will get back into the swing of things, though it helps if you have an interesting timetable for the day. There is nothing worse at times then being extremely tired, stuck at the front of the class being spoken too about various effects of globalisation for example, or the 'ins and outs' of primacy, or the fourth lecture on deuterosomes..
How was your timetable that day?

[The Might]

it was ok
since we wrote our tests right before getting our holiday we didn't get them back last year so today we didn't do much, just got our marks and the tests...
I was personally satisfied with my results

but I know what you mean...some classes are ok, but sometimes, like in German, I feel like falling asleep

but I'm sure the late hour visits on the Barrow-Downs will soon disappear (unfortunately) and everything will go back to normal...

[Mänwe]

Ah yes, the best start to the term, marks. Mhm, I should be getting some marks back, however the majority of our exams are in just over a weeks time. The old semester exams being at the start of the new...

Glad you did well.

[Mänwe]

How are the nocturnal haunting spirits this early morning? :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Are you talking to me !?

[Mänwe]

:D Anyone who listens, a distinct disadvantage about being an etheral spirit is that noise just passes through you!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/images/chatskwerl.jpg

Careful, guys, this thread is getting chatty. No personal conversations, please - take those to PMs. Thanks!

[The Might]

Oh no!!!
The skwerlz are upon us...!!!

Sorry for the chatty posts my lady, will not make that again.

Though I must ask myself...are we the only 3 who are late nighters...seems like a minority on the Downs...probably because most others don't have the possibility to do this in the first place
But it is nice to sometimes have the possibility to be online with people from the other side of the world...

[Rikae]

Not necessarily, Might. I, for one, have written some of my best essays at 4 am (the day they're due, natch.)

[Brinniel]

I often write my papers around 4am as well. I am always amazed how I usually manage to receive A's and B's on them. I also write my RPG posts around 2-3am.

I suppose I tend to be more creative around the wee hours of the morning. :rolleyes:

[Laitoste]

It's 1:30 here. I'm writing a paper and trying to read for class tomorrow. I try to avoid late nights, because I don't have time to nap during the day. But it doesn't work very well, so here I am. :p

[Mänwe]

It seems we are all more productive late at night or early morning! Laitoste, don't we all try and avoid them! Just too damn hard to avoid completely. For once I am up late "against" my will. Revision for an exam this morning ( :D ) at 9:30am.

I intend to have no sleep, thus completing 16 hours of revision. Anyway, back to it, any other late posters out there on the Downs who have evolved nocturnal habits for answering the great threads I am missing in the Books fora, while I am away!?

[Thinlómien]

I suppose I tend to be more creative around the wee hours of the morning. :rolleyes:I at least really am. When there was the Great Golden Hoard game, I wrote my definitely best post a bit before 2 AM after even falling asleep of being too tired... :D

[Roa_Aoife]

I've done my share of late nights on the Downs, especially during werewolf games. Of course, now that I have to get up at 6 AM to face a classroom of 3 yr olds, that's faded. Still, don't feel so bad if you're the only on the "Who's On-line" page. Remember, there are those of us who never come out of invisible mode.

We're there- you just won't know it until we post. :eek:

[Nogrod]

Funny to notice that I probably have'nt yet written to this thread as I should be the one to really call this mine... :D

If I don't have an early wake up call and there's something interesting going on, like RPGs or WW-games, I can hang around and participate to early morning hours (I guess I once played a heated ww-game up to 6 or 7 AM!). Happily that doesn't happen too often.

But what's much more normal is that the bedtime gets streched with an hour or two. So if I have thought that I should try to get to sleep around midnight (that's my normal rhythm), a game, an RPG post or an interesting discussion pushes that to 1.30-2 AM. That's more than commonplace.

But that's also understandable. My days are normally quite packed so the only time I can hang around here is basically the evenings or late nights...

Nice to see others share this condition. :cool:

[The Might]

Well, I haven't had the chance to stay up late on the Downs for a long time now that school started...but next week I have a short break so I might consider not going to bed so soon

[Mänwe]

Well now that I see you as a participant in the new WW game, I should imagine you'll be trying to stay up later? I know I'll be popping in much more often and far longer now. Well both of you are participants, Nogrod, Might, I look forward to seeing you here more often. :)

[The Might]

Well, vacation starts next week, so I might stay up later then usually, given that there are things to do here.
I'm pretty sad that the Quiz Forum isn't so active anymore...

[Thinlómien]

Thanks to my being in my father's place I'm a late nighter - it's 3am here. This is very stupid, since I don't have anything to do in here (or in livejournal) but I still don't go to sleep, even though that would be sensible considering the time and the fact that I have to go to school early the day after tomorrow. But I'm not tired at all!

[Precioussss]

Tonight is a late night for me, which I don't usually have. I can't sleep, so this probably won't be the last post I make around here this night. Gives me time to re-read old posts, which is what I do a lot of the time here anyway.

[Mänwe]

Ah, Might returns. Bring on the holidays! :) And I can understand how you feel Lommy, myself most of the time signing in but not actually doing anything because I am busy elsewhere even in the early hours. Which leads me onto my next point. Why don't we actually do something constructive.

We spend all this time on here, like Precioussss reading posts til late we should have a sound grasp of what there is to offer, and which threads draw our attention. Perhaps we should have a "Late Nighter's Review". So what are the best threads to visit of a late-evening-early-morning?

Whenever you find yourself stuck for posting elsewhere or you are simply up late posting, post a review of the thread that has caught your attention and why, particularly if its the thread that's causing your late night!

[The Might]

Ah, yes...the holidays.
They're gone meanwhile, back to school.
But it's a weekend and I'll be returning late home tonight, so I might consider staying up a while and posting some more here.
On the other hand, all this learning makes me more and more tired. :o

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

It is 1:30 AM i dont feel like posting so ill just lurk round in the shadows :smokin:

[Beregond]

The coincidence is almost spooky, but I must admit that it is 1:30AM here now as well, exactly, on the button. I loaded this thread more than half an hour ago but only at this very moment have I come to it through the many threads and websites I have tabbed in my Firefox window. I too am a night-person; I find I think better at this time of night, I certainly am more creative after the clock strikes the twelve count and resets itself. I have so many memories of late-night perusal of Tolkien forums at hours that one might argue were better spent in bed, knowing nothing. Ah, that I could argue fiercely were it put to me. There is something about Tolkien, about forums, about talking with your friends online long after everyone else has gone to bed...nothing else is quite like it. A fresh breeze through the window on a warm summer's night... ahhh, the memories. I am too nostalgic a person by half, but it has its high points. There have been three major Tolkien forums that have shaped my life. One is dead, sadly dead and gone. One I now own myself; happily it is alive and well. But the Barrow-downs... Ahh, the Barrow-downs started it all. The major events of my life now can all be traced back to the Barrow-Downs. It was the year of 2001 that I met my best online friends here, and one of them created Rohan, where I have been ever since, and from where I met my first love, who inspired me to visit England, my first and only major trip. And...many other things in my life have started here at this fine former ezboard, but I am droning on, off-topic and lost in my own thoughts. See what the night can do? The night has a power such as the day cannot imagine, for the night is a dream we may all share, with waking eyes, under crescent moon...

[Elladan]

I am in the same league as you.
I sleep very little, I am usually awake until just near dawn.. I like to think I am awake so late out of choice, but that would be foolish of me to believe.

[Lhunardawen]

Methinks I am in the right position to pull a Heren on this thread...

It is 4:32 AM where I am as I type, and I have a two-part, three-hour exam coming in four hours. And I only had one hour of sleep.

Ooh, look at all the numbers.

I wrote a reaction paper on MRSA and nosocomial infections for Microbio class instead of a post for the Mead Hall. That's crazy.

Maybe the fact that the Full Moon comes tonight has something to do with this.

[Lhunardawen]

I hate to double-post, but I just realised that the Downs is actually more effective in keeping me awake than coffee is. Not that I would know, since I don't drink, and don't intend to learn drinking, coffee.

PS. I also noticed that a good number of the posters in this thread are (was, in the case of Celuien) Biology -- Biochemistry in the case of Farael -- majors. Ironic that those who are supposed to be studying life seem to end up having less of it... :p

[Lush]

I just checked my initial posts in this thread...

Right now, I have a new job (as editor of two webzines - holla and I'll drop you a link sometime if you want to write for me, btw), and so my schedule is... ridiculous.

It's very free, and very unstructured, and I often find myself talking to someone in China while it's 4 a.m. wherever it is that I'm at.

It's a Barrow-Downs kind of schedule... ;) The spooky, walking-dead schedule.

I'm enjoying it while it lasts. :D

[Thinlómien]

Holidays make me a hopeless night owl. Not nice, considering that school starts on Monday, I'm up and awake and it's soon 5am... I bet I won't be able to recover my normal "sleeping rhythm" before the holiday ends...

[McCaber]

I know how you feel. That was me for the past four nights. Can I continue the streak?

[Meneltarmacil]

Well, I suppose I can, considering that I've still got next week off... then again, I do have to get up sorta early tomorrow to help take down some of the decorations at my church, so I probably shouldn't be here at this hour (12:41 AM my time).

Yes, I do stay up later than I should, especially over holidays... *sigh*

[The Might]

Well I'm definately not going to lose this opportunity to post here on the thread.
ToDay :D is the first schoolday and I'm going to have to leave to school in about an hour, but since I've up so late the past few days it's kind of hard to go to bed. And I thought that the few hours would anyway only make me more tired in the morning. Plus, I thought that if I don't sleep now it will be easier for me to go to bed earlier this evening. Yeah, quite a vampire-like lifestyle...

Lol, know what you mean Lhunardawen. I mean, I'm only in the 12th grade here and we are already laughing at those that have Biology as an advanced class cause all they have to do all the time is learn.
Fortunately, I was wise enough to avoid that. :D
And, also I seem to be using the Downs to keep me awake right now, as I also don't drink coffee...

I'm actually disappointed that Lommy hasn't come up with this great strategy as well, would have been fun to see some other online before school.

[Meneltarmacil]

Hmm, I'm a Biology major as well, and I posted after Lhunardawen, so she couldn't have been referring to me. Well, what is it with us, anyhow?

[The Might]

Well off to school now...see ya in about 12 hours :)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

While I'd normally never count 12:14am as late night (it starts getting 'late' around two...), I'm back at school, starting a new term in the morning. As a matter of some freak-outedness, I have to be back here (library) in seven hours and thirty-seven minutes. And then I have a handful of classes, and then I have several meetings, and then I'm expected in the studio for several hours (to work), and then maybe I'll have time to fix my computer before getting kicking on homework which won't be due 'til Wednesday but which I won't have time to work on Tuesday... And I kind of want to post on Tapestry...

I was doing work, really... Not school work, natch, since nothing's assigned 'til tomorrow at earliest, but a different job, a lot cooler. And what better quick distraction than sneaking onto the 'Downs to look around?

And what is a better way to make me feel better about knowing I'm going to start a semester running on five hours sleep tops than knowing that there are other people floating around the 'Downs with me?

Sorry guys, I'm not a science student. Double major in studio art and English. Means some semesters after classes and work I'm reading a novel a day, writing a paper about it, and then heading off for an all-nighter to get a painting done for next-day crit. No taking all the cred for whacked out schedules. I can't count the number of times I've skipped one class to do work for another one, or the number of books I've fallen asleep on top of. Or under... Note to anybody doing homework: the more horizontal you are, the less likely you are to retain what you read. Yeah...

[Lhunardawen]

Lol, know what you mean Lhunardawen. I mean, I'm only in the 12th grade here and we are already laughing at those that have Biology as an advanced class cause all they have to do all the time is learn.
Fortunately, I was wise enough to avoid that. :D
Good for you. ;) But hey, learning IS fun! In moderate amounts, that is...

Hmm, I'm a Biology major as well, and I posted after Lhunardawen, so she couldn't have been referring to me. Well, what is it with us, anyhow?
We aren't wise enough to avoid Biology, methinks. :D

[Laurinquë]

Oh yes, I am usually here very late at night, when I should be in bed if I knew what was good for me, I always regret it the next day, but night is when I finally wake up! The thing about the Barrow-Downs is that it's always "oh I'll read ONE more thred, and then I'll go to bed." As predicted the "one" thread turns into 16 and I am up untill 3:00 in the morning. Ha. But also the little post time thing on mine is a couple hours off, I don't know why, I mean I set it for my time zone, so if it looks like I posted it at 2:00 am I probably posted it at 12:00am.

By bad, it's only one hour off. ;)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Well, Lauri you do seem pretty energetic at school... and when I stayed up till 2 on the Downs you fell asleep!

[The Might]

Well, I know I'm resurrecting a thread here, but I felt it was time... especially now.

It's 5.15 AM in Germany and in one hour I have to prepare for school already. :(
Since I have been staying up so late the entire vacations I thought that trying my best to get to sleep today wouldn't be very useful. So instead I just stay up all night and then later today I can go early to bed and resume the school life timetable.

Anyway, hope some more late nighters out there post again, I actually enjoyed this thread. :)

[Beregond]

I just read this post of yours from a year ago:

ToDay :D is the first schoolday and I'm going to have to leave to school in about an hour, but since I've up so late the past few days it's kind of hard to go to bed. And I thought that the few hours would anyway only make me more tired in the morning. Plus, I thought that if I don't sleep now it will be easier for me to go to bed earlier this evening. Yeah, quite a vampire-like lifestyle..


And now I read this:

It's 5.15 AM in Germany and in one hour I have to prepare for school already.
Since I have been staying up so late the entire vacations I thought that trying my best to get to sleep today wouldn't be very useful. So instead I just stay up all night and then later today I can go early to bed and resume the school life timetable.


Gotta say, you're regular! :D I posted in this thread a ways back; had no idea it was so so long ago that I waxed eloquently to no one in particular. I guess I didn't use paragraphs back then...

I still stay up late, but not as late as I used to, and I wake up early now, so that if I stay up it be at the expense of sleep, not daylight. One does not truly become a day-person, who was once a night-person. *gollum, gollum*

[The Might]

Wow, and it's exactly a year ago! Talk about precision...
Then again last year it was a Monday, so this year I have the advantage of only having to go through three days on my first week. :D

[Beregond]

Digging deeper... ;)

hmmm...my plan didn't really work, and because I was used to going to bed so late I wasn't able to sleep much last night (3 hours) resulting in a not very nice first day of school...but I guess I'll eventually have to get used to it

Do you get to Downs much after school starts, or is it all time-consuming?

Me, I'm home schooled. It's HARD! Unbelievably so, at times, to get stuff done when you're the one motivating yourself. Way too easy to slack off without structure. So I can Downs any time I like, but often when I should be doing "better" things. :( I used to stay up late doing schoolwork because I found my mind worked best at those times. Guilt-free night-owling, I suppose.

[The Might]

I am writing from school actually right now. :D

And yeah, school is now going to be fairly time comsuming since this is my last semester of highschool followed by the exams in about 3 and a half months. But I am sure I'll have enough time for Downsing...

[Eönwë]

Hmm... I have to admit that I definately need to place myself on this thread. In the last holiday I shifted my sleeping pattern so that I slept at 02:00 and woke up at 12:30. I have been known to stay up later on the Downs, though, but after a certain time (around 23:30) I stop posting and just lurk through old threads. And then at around 01:30 suddenly I get inspiration and post again. But usually I have to sleep after that.

I always get creeped out when I'm the only one online....it feels so....lonely, somehow.
It always does...


And for this thread, I have to quote something a Downer said that I have remembered since I first read it and felt like I could relate to at the time...and still do. Thank you, Laurinquë:
I assign reading the Downs until late at night (like right now) and thinking "Oh well, a night with only three hours of sleep won't kill me!".
I feel exactly like that!

Note: Now its only 20:00

PS. WARNING! WEREWOLF DAMAGES YOUR SLEEPING PATTERN!

[Mänwe]

:D good to see fellow night Wights about the place! I'm sure a few of us were kept up late recently by examination revision!

Beregrond, Might, Eönwë- showing any signs of darkness induced adaptation? :p

[Beregond]

No, I've, erm, adjusted my habits (a bit). I'm an early bird, but a night owl at heart. :p

So I see the sun now! I don't see it rise, I just...see it.

Darkness-induced-adaptation? Do you mean...mutation? As in big googly eyes, antennas for lights, that sort of thing? :p No, haven't noticed too much of that going on... my teeth were getting pointier.

[Eönwë]

Beregrond, Might, Eönwë- showing any signs of darkness induced adaptation?

Other than my hands and feet becoming suckers so that I can climb up walls effortlessly, nothing really. :p

Edit: Yes! Another English Downer has returned!

[Lindale]

Goodness me little Lindale is one of these late-nighters too. For no reason other than my insomnia has begun to annoy me again these days.

Oh well. I'll return to the word and quote games. I don't know how the werewolf games work despite having someone explain to me twice.

[Beregond]

Oh well. I'll return to the word and quote games. I don't know how the werewolf games work despite having someone explain to me twice.

Only way is to play, and then you'll know if you like it. I really didn't understand it at all till I started playing. It can be time consuming - just reading, never mind posting, but if you have time it's fun. I just started and still feel way out of place. :p

[Mänwe]

Darkness-induced-adaptation? Do you mean...mutation?

Mutation is such a "dirty" word :p Can't see pointy teeth being an advantage :-)...best hope for a bit of Lindale's insomnia..you'll both have all the time in the world to became Werewolf experts :eek:

Other than my hands and feet becoming suckers so that I can climb up walls effortlessly, nothing really. Haha thats some fine evolution right there..makes *glomping* people easier I should imagine :p

[Eönwë]

makes *glomping* people easier I should imagine :p
You have no idea...;)

[Beregond]

So for all you late nighter's, besides the obvious physical adaptations, do you find you get a lot of work/play done when you stay up late, or do you waste the late hours ?

[Thinlómien]

This is how the family plays ww (in the weekend) when the deadline is 8am their time:

Greenie makes her last post 4.43 am.
Lommy makes her last post 5.21 am.
Nogrod makes his last post 8.08 am.

:eek::p;)

[The Might]

Wow, it seems that the age / posting time is an exponential function.

[Lindale]

So for all you late nighter's, besides the obvious physical adaptations, do you find you get a lot of work/play done when you stay up late, or do you waste the late hours ?

I do! More play than work, actually. Sometimes I work best at night, when I slept during the afternoon, but these days I don't have that luxury. My last class ends at 6. I get home at 7. I cook dinner and those kinda stuff until about 9. And then I watch TV. By 12 until around 3 or 4, at worse 6 am, I'm cramming on my papers.

[Eönwë]

It's only 11.30pm but I think I'll go to sleep now.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

It's only 1:21 AM but I have to post in WW yet. :D

[Mänwe]

It's only 11.30pm but I think I'll go to sleep now.

Ought to be struck off for that :p

Mhm Legate, I personally get very little done late night. A lot of browsing and reading of things- a good time to absorb information.

[Lhunardawen]

Time check: 3:18 AM

I was fooling around on the Meadhall discussion thread and figured, my foolery would probably be more apt in this thread.

Right now I'm working on a lab report on the osmoregulation of earthworms, and in a while I shall be starting on an oral report on microcirculation and local control of blood flow in frogs. Both are due in a little over five hours.

Consider this a warning to those young enough to heed it: Do NOT take up Biology. :D

[Eönwë]

Mhm Legate, I personally get very little done late night. A lot of browsing and reading of things- a good time to absorb information.

I have to agree with this. When it gets quite late I mainly just read threads- often old ones. But when it's really late then my brain suddenly switches on.

[Thinlómien]

I have to agree with this. When it gets quite late I mainly just read threads- often old ones. But when it's really late then my brain suddenly switches on.Yeah, that is interesting. I have written one of my best RPG-ish posts on the 'downs around 5-6am after almost falling asleep on the sofa before that but forcing myself to stay awake because the post had a definite deadline that was early on the morning my time. :smokin:;)

[Eönwë]

Hmm.... I'm starting to get back into the spirit of things.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

It seems that when I stay up late on the BD (like I'm doing at the moment) it seems that no one is online. Of course, I'm not in the same time zone as everybody else. About 6:30 am is the time to get on, but there's no way that I' staying up that long, or waking up that early.

[Thinlómien]

3.34 AM

*raises hand sheepishly*

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Only 2:37, but that's been for already some time in this week. I think my record's been a few days ago, but... hey, wasn't that two days ago... see, even so early, I cannot think that well anymore :D

[Thinlómien]

Only 2:37, but that's been for already some time in this week. I think my record's been a few days ago, but... hey, wasn't that two days ago... see, even so early, I cannot think that well anymore :DWell you know you're not the only one who's been doing a lot of late-nightering lately... ;)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Well you know you're not the only one who's been doing a lot of late-nightering lately... ;)

Oh, really? Well, yes, I presume there are millions of people on the Earth who do that... ;)

[Eönwë]

Oh, really? Well, yes, I presume there are millions of people on the Earth who do that... ;)

Exactly. Not me now... but nevertheless...

[Eönwë]

Ok. Well, at least now I can post here. Anyone else out there?

But it wasn't Downs-induced this time. I was doing coursework.
But after a certain point your mind clears and you are perfectly awake and there's silence... quite a nice feeling.

[Eönwë]

And again. Oh well, it seems that I'm the only one lately.

[Morsul the Dark]

between 1 and 2 am is my usual shut off time, My fiance goes to bed around 11 and I always say I'll be just a few minutes, two hours later.....

[Nogrod]

Werewolf-games modded by the Americans are the worst. With a deadline of 6 or 7AM and being yourself on a vacation... :eek:

You know what happens. Just as you think, okay that's it for the night (like 1-2 AM) people suddenly start posting and the thread becomes alive - and then you just can't leave... and it comes 3, it comes 4, 5 - and then you think "what the heck, DL soon so let's see this to the end..." :rolleyes:

[Lindale]

1am here. Not quite ungodly, but tonight it tires me too much. It's my third day scouring the internet and university libraries for material on my undergrad thesis on Strindberg's plays. (Any help would be appreciated!):o

I'll play a bit on the Downs before I resume work, maybe catch up on P&A. :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Since I'm not in the same time zones as anybody who I usually communicate on the Barrow-Downs with, I am forced to stay up until 3.00 in the morning in order to be on when all the good discussions are going on.

[Eönwë]

It's 2 in the morning... 'nuff said

[Hakon]

I recently broke my late night habit. I used to stay up to about 4 am and sleep to about 4 pm. Now I sleep till about 10 am at most. I am getting back into my old schedule. So I am kind of a late nighter. For me right now it is only 9:08 pm.

[Lindale]

Hakon: Unpredictable biological clock, eh? :D

Got home from ROTC training at around two in the afternoon, and slept till around 8. Now I can't sleep, and it's past 11. :(

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

And again. Oh well, it seems that I'm the only one lately.Ha! When you are up late, I am up mid day.

Since school started up again, I've not been doing any late nighters, it doesn't help that I don't get much late night time on the comp[uter anyway.

[Laurinquë]

It's 2 in the morning... 'nuff said

You're only really on the Downs if it is at least 2:00 AM! Three is better . . . :p

[Eönwë]

You're only really on the Downs if it is at least 2:00 AM! Three is better . . . :p

Of course...;)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You're only really on the Downs if it is at least 2:00 AM! Three is better . . . :p

You were on at three? You're insane. You'd get over that head cold or whatever it is faster if you slept.

[Thinlómien]

It makes me quite worried about my sleep if I log in (after several days' 'downs pause) at 1am... :(:D

[Laurinquë]

You were on at three? You're insane. You'd get over that head cold or whatever it is faster if you slept.

I haven't done it lately, though there was that one time a few weeks ago when I woke up at three a.m. to write about my dream of Davem on the Barrow-Downs Dreams thread.

[Eönwë]

It's 2.22am over here. So yeah, I think I'm allowed to revive this thread.

I have a question for you other late-nighters:
Are you more likely to stay up late in the summer or winter? (Or doesn't it matter?)

[The Might]

One year ago, Beregond wrote:

I just read this post of yours from a year ago:

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Might http://forum.barrowdowns.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif
ToDay is the first schoolday and I'm going to have to leave to school in about an hour, but since I've up so late the past few days it's kind of hard to go to bed. And I thought that the few hours would anyway only make me more tired in the morning. Plus, I thought that if I don't sleep now it will be easier for me to go to bed earlier this evening. Yeah, quite a vampire-like lifestyle..


And now I read this:

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Might
It's 5.15 AM in Germany and in one hour I have to prepare for school already.
Since I have been staying up so late the entire vacations I thought that trying my best to get to sleep today wouldn't be very useful. So instead I just stay up all night and then later today I can go early to bed and resume the school life timetable.


Gotta say, you're regular! :D I posted in this thread a ways back; had no idea it was so so long ago that I waxed eloquently to no one in particular. I guess I didn't use paragraphs back then...

I still stay up late, but not as late as I used to, and I wake up early now, so that if I stay up it be at the expense of sleep, not daylight. One does not truly become a day-person, who was once a night-person. *gollum, gollum*



So in order to maintain this nice tradition that I have somehow developed (three years ago I posted on the 6th of January in this thread) I wanted to make another post and salute all late nighters here on the Downs!

It's during the quietness of the night that our souls haunt these barrows with greatest pleasure. :D

[Lindale]

I have a question for you other late-nighters:
Are you more likely to stay up late in the summer or winter? (Or doesn't it matter?)

Well, technically, we don't have winter where I live... :p but I often can stay awake with less effort from March to October than from November to February. The cool and dry Amihan wind, which blows winter to China in our north, tends to keep me to my bed more than the warm and humid Habagat wind, which brings the Philippines its monsoon rains.

But if duty really calls, like last night, I stay awake with the help of many coffees or Cokes and much sweet sticky rice stuff. I tend to write my best papers in the dead of night, mostly because there are less distractions and noise.

[Lindale]

2AM here. Funny how alive the Downs is at this ungodly hour... :cool:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I finally clocked in at 3... this morning. The Downs was not the most active place.

[The Might]

This thread deserves a lot more attention than it currently receives! :D

02:35 here in Germany and it's going to be a long night of coffee and learning. :eek:

[Loslote]

I usually log off at around midnight or one, so I really have no right to be posting in this thread. The latest ever was 2:00 AM once a few days ago.

I have a question for you other late-nighters:
Are you more likely to stay up late in the summer or winter? (Or doesn't it matter?)

Summer. Definitely summer. See, in winter, it's dark and it looks like you should be a bed. In summer, at least in Alaska, the sun doesn't actually set all the way. You can still see shiny fuzzes no matter what the time is. So it's really hard to make myself go to bed before midnight at the earliest.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Last night/this morning I stayed up until 2.30 on the Downs and talking to Downers off of the Downs.

[satansaloser2005]

I remember one WW game (I believe I was in a pack with Steve, Lhuna, and Legate) where I was online doing Downs related stuff until nearly six in the morning. And I was still in school at the time. :eek:


Now I'm old though (:p) and I'm trying not to stay up too far past midNight....erm, I mean midnight. :)

[Mänwe]

Not much chance for late nights over christmas..heavy meals, many a glass of something and cold weather all combine for a potent sleep inducer nowadays.

[The Might]

I have shamefully neglected this great thread for some time now, so I had to post today in honour of my late nighter tradition after the winter holidays.
It is pretty difficult to switch back to the normal schedule of a working student but with courses at 8am four times this week it should happen pretty quickly. 4am here in Germany, so finally off to bed now!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

It is currently a little after four o'clock in the morning in good old Anchorage, Alaska and I am Downsing (that has got to be a word). To be fair, I was asleep, but I was having terrible dreams and after looking at pictures of my cats and posting here I am feeling much better. I'm not quite sure if it counts as a late-nighter if I haven't been up all night here, but I am awake and here now.

[Aganzir]

I'm not quite sure if it counts as a late-nighter if I haven't been up all night here, but I am awake and here now.
I think it does. After all, it's so much geekier to wake up in the middle of the night to post on the Downs. ;)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I think it does. After all, it's so much geekier to wake up in the middle of the night to post on the Downs. ;)
Hmm, yes. Perhaps it is.

[Mänwe]

I hope that wasn't a case of setting an alarm specifically for the purpose of posting!

~~

Late night had by many following the US election- 7am speeches were finished!

But i've been hankering after late night skulking in a WW thread. I can't see any discussion threads which leads me to assume there aren't any currently being planned :(

[Inziladun]

Personally, my nights are for sleeping. ;)

But i've been hankering after late night skulking in a WW thread. I can't see any discussion threads which leads me to assume there aren't any currently being planned :(

Ah, but there is one (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=18154)!

[Mänwe]

Thank you for pointing me in that direction! Another late night for me, this time i'm tidying the apartment..late night tidying much more effective anyone?

[The Might]

4 AM here and I just had the sudden thought "I should get back on the Downs".
Seems like I'm practicing for New Year's Eve.

[Snowdog]

Been enjoying a few late nights recently due to not having to work over the holidays. Just happen to wander through the Downs as it seemed wrong to visit the facebook group and not the board.

[Bêthberry]

Welcome back, Dawg. :cool: