Flashback: 1989 (part 5)

Here is the transcript of my log for DAY FIVE of my sleep deprivation experiment from 1989:

• DAY Last!!!
• 8:50AM - got to school and complained about dressing up stupidly (in a dress with bra over top) since Alex, Ian, and I were slaves [we didn't dress up, after all]
• 8:55AM - went to music room to partake of the video made last night of the Christmas Concert; had snacks
• 10:AM - went to caf: complained some more about the dress thing
• 10:20AM - went to art –had supply, didn't enter class
• 10:25AM - went to caf, hung out, talked to people
• 11:50AM - countdown begins
• 12:00PM - IT'S OVER!!!

Alex and I ended up raising $450 in total for Christmas Cheer from this craziness.

Flashback: 1989 (part 4)

Here is the transcript of my log for DAY FOUR of my sleep deprivation experiment from 1989:

• 8:50AM - Writer's Craft –not too tired
• 10:20AM - D.A. [Dramatic Arts] –felt okay. relaxed (at peace kind of)
• 11:30AM - Lunch –felt kinda tired
• 12:45PM - Science –pretty really tired -last twenty minutes NEARLY FELL ASLEEP. couldn't keep my eyes open at all
• 2:00PM - spare –went to DA office, watched Radar, Neal, Alex, Ian play video games –nearly fell asleep; went and got a root beer only thing available for caffeine)
• 4:00PM - find Attila and Chris Patheiger and join them
• 5:30PM - leave school and go to McDonald's with Frank and Jeff and Atti
• 6:15PM - left McD's - went to Atti's and checked up on Alex (on phone)
• 6:30PM - went to school to see Christmas Concert; had a coffee; went to donut shop with Frank, Atti, their father, and Jeff; had snacks and a glass of Coke
• 10:30PM - Atti and I go to my house, start watching cassette five of ROBOTECH; had coffees + Coke + tea
• 10:55PM - Alex showed up - still watching Robotech
• 11:30PM - Kirk [Aitken] showed up
• around 11:55PM - Chris Patheiger showed up; Robotech ended, put in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; had coffee
• around 1:30AM - played Rock Trivia -game of stupidity + impossible questions. had fun
• 3:30AM - watched The Last Temptation of Christ
• about 8 something AM - film ended, got ready to leave, guys left (Kirk left earlier around 7:30); took a shower, had tea
  
  
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Flashback: 1989 (part 3)

Here is the transcript of my log for DAY THREE of my sleep deprivation experiment from 1989:

• 8:00AM - left my house with Alex and Ian; walked to school
• 8:35AM - showed up at school; had snack; raised over $300! total
• 10:20AM - home form –HALFWAY THERE.
• 10:30AM - Art -sat around, flipped through a magazine, walked about
• 11:30AM - slave auction –I was a slave on the block with Alex and Ian
• 1:00PM - slave auction II –formed a conglomerate - bid on Juli + Denise (no luck); purchased Lisa Graves
• 2:20PM - had lunch
• 3:10PM - J.P. Jones took log book [Jeff started logging from 1:00PM Day 3 until 8:20AM]
• 5:00PM - rented, from Video Haven, the 1st 5 tapes of Robotech (to be watched that evening)
• 7:00PM - had dinner
• 6:30PM - worked till finish on Arctic Avenger
• 10:00PM - went to Hasty Market for energy food (Coke + chips, etc.)
• 11:00PM - began Robotech
• 12:30–2:00AM - watched Letterman + Costas; felt really energized
• 3:35–4:10AM - laughing fit over deflector shields; not tired at all
• 2:00–6:30 - ROBOTECH
• 6:30AM - Hercules (interesting head maneuver on the part of Hercules); got tired but Jeff kept me awake
• 7:00AM - FRIGHTENSTEIN
• 8:20AM - got a drive to school
  
  
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Flashback: 1989 (part 2)

Here is the transcript of my log for DAY TWO of my sleep deprivation experiment from 1989:

• 8:15AM - arrive at school; had breakfast
• 8:35AM - aim sucks –threw cellophane and missed garbage can; threw pen and missed garbage can
• 8:50AM - had snacks and sat around table at school and talked to friends for period one
• 9:45AM - gathered ten sponsors for this thing
• 10:00AM - home form –decorated the door with Jennifer Black and the rest of the class –kept me awake
• 11:00AM - Writer's Craft –sat around
• 11:20 - lunch; got more sponsors
• 12:30PM - Science –watched films; not tired still
• 12:45PM - headache - sharp, but very short
• 1:05PM - getting sleepy watching film –lying head on arm– sitting up keeps me awake; dark is too heinous –makes me sleepy– bright light is better
• 1:20PM - creative writing (while film is still running)
• 1:30PM - saw a cheesy film in the auditorium
• 2:30PM - Dramatic Arts –did work on skits - directed Ian Anderson + Ros Sinclair
• 3:15PM - left school, took bus to Morningside Mall to "assist" Mark Joyce in buying shoes (which he didn't buy)
• 5:00PM - went to Alex's (via Radar's car) + hung about
• 5:45PM - left Alex's - walked to Tom McAlister's + hung about
• 6:30PM - got a ride from Tom to my house
• 6:45PM - talked to Attila Baraczka on the phone
• 6:50PM - had dinner
• 7:45PM - worked on ARCTIC AVENGER for Writer's Craft
• 9:30PM - watched Beauty and the Beast –riveting
• 10:00PM - first cup of coffee; still watching Vincent search for Catherine
• 10:45PM - Alex and Attila arrive - we finish watching Vincent look for Catherine -he found her -she dies
• 11:00PM flipped around the stations
• 11:45PM - Ian Anderson showed up
• 11:55PM - made tea for me and Alex
• 12:00AM - watched tons of Muchmusic and videos that I had on tape
• 2:35AM - had snacks
• 4:00AM - recorded "Imperial March" for Slave Day [Alex, Ian, and I were taking part in our school's "slave auction" as a trio and wanted to come on stage to some awesome music, then we just stood there, silly and dramatic, not answering any questions posed of us by the auctioneer]
• 4:25AM - made more tea for me and Alex; Ian still asleep
• around 7:AM - watched Hilarious House of Frightenstein; just finished watching Hercules; had breakfast
  
  
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Flashback: 1989 (part 1)

11 December 1989: my friend Alex Pearson and I were thinking of ways to participate in the week of "Christmas Cheer" that our high school was having to raise money for a charity (I don't remember which) like they do every year.

We were at Little Caesar's at Lawrence and Kingston in Scarborough and brainstormed a few ideas. The best we came up with was to get people to sponsor us for every hour that we stayed awake. "Let's make it a hundred hours; since we both got up around 8am this morning, that would take us to noon, Friday."

So it began.

I decided to keep a log of my activity (for science!*) and it's a pretty entertaining read almost exactly 23 years later. Please bear in mind I was just 18 years old and this was the last week of school before the Christmas break (hence all the skipped classes and the lame activities during the classes I did attend).
I was alone that first night, but my amazing friends kept me company for the rest of the experiment; they made it much easier.

Here, now (as a Bonus Feature of my painting marathon), is DAY ONE:

• Wake up at 8:AM (BEGIN)
• 10:20am - went to Art class, sat about for most of it
• 11:30am - went to English class, participated in group work
• about 12:50pm - jello-eating contest in the café –done deliberately slowly
• about 1:05pm (with Jeff Jones) - had lunch
• 1:30pm - hung about in the café with friends till about 5:30pm
• about 5:45pm - went to Alex Pearson's house
• about 6:30pm - had dinner [this would have been at Little Caesar's]
• 8:PM - got home; kicked around house; wrote journal for sleep deprivation experiment -(this)
• 10:PM - glass of fruit punch while listening to stereo
• 10:10PM - watched cheesy made-for-TV movie - rested eyes during commercials (still awake)
• 10:30PM - had snacks
• 11:00PM - watched Prisoners of Gravity [while] lying down in front of TV
• 11:25PM - walked around house [inside]
• 11:30PM - watched Buckaroo Banzai while walking around (and lying down)
• 12:30AM - started fire in fireplace; watch David Letterman (repeat); rested eyes during commercials
• 1:30AM - continued watching Buckaroo Banzai while walking around room (and sitting down) - moving about, at any rate
• 2:25AM - air drummed/guitarred to songs on headphones (sitting)
• 3:30AM - read 1 chapter of The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (lying down)
• 3:45AM - rested eyes for count of fifty
• 3:50AM - watched TV (moving around) –Night Moves (bakeout TV); rested eyes during commercials
• 5:00AM - watched "Benson" - rested eyes as usual; had snack
• 5:15AM - bleeding nose (cause: unknown)
• 5:20AM - nose stopped bleeding
• 5:30AM - watched some dumb show on business taxes, etc.
• 6:00AM - watched Hercules [animated] – oh, that Hercules
• 7:00AM - watched House of Frightenstein –yah, weird, eh?
• 7:30AM - took a shower
  
  
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*Actually for science, in fact: I later wrote a report of this for my Grade 12 Bio class.