[Memphisto]

What is this elusive "sleep" you all speak of?

[niss]

niss gets by on 5-7 hours of sleep, but prefers a solid 8 hours. However niss is a morning person, so he is up by 7 a.m. even if he doesn't get to bed until 3 a.m.

[niss]

What is this elusive "sleep" you all speak of?

It's what you do after you die.

[Sela]

niss gets by on 5-7 hours of sleep, but prefers a solid 8 hours. However niss is a morning person, so he is up by 7 a.m. even if he doesn't get to bed until 3 a.m.

Mostly similar. I am managing today on five hours' worth. Like @Stephen said, I don't recommend it. I have an awful headache, and it's taking me longer to process data. IOW, not at peak form. The difference between myself and @niss is that mornings rank right up there with Accounting, IMHO.

[Out0fAmmo]

Even if I can "function" on ~5 hours of sleep, I try to avoid it because I miss a lot of details and make more mistakes when I don't get 8-9 hours of sleep.

[nosilla]

Ughhhhh.
To sum it up: I went to financial aid today. They told me it would take 4-6 weeks for my loan to be offered to me. Fees are due August 3rd. Cashier's window told me that I wouldn't have to pay the full $3200, but only $1800 so I could keep my classes. I would get the $1800 back when my loan kicks in.
I went and talked to all of these uni people with my dad, but he just stood behind me and never said a word. My mom made him go because she thinks that I am not forceful enough "with those awful financial aid people". ¬_¬ Those people are just doing their jobs, and I've met LOTS of nice people. She has never met any.
So when we found this out, my dad said we had three options: 1) Do nothing, 2) Hope my loan comes through by August 3rd, and 3) Find a way to pay the money. He said that paying the money was not probable at all, and that they would have to find another way. He told me not to expect to go to school this semester. Somehow I kept it all together, and right when we started driving, he told me he wanted a Starbucks coffee, and then we went to Kragen to get stuff for my car. And then we got home. I just totally lost it when we got home, and he "spoke sternly" (aka his version of yelling) and told me to stop crying and to not tell my mom until she got home from teaching summer school. He also told me that he knew he didn't have any control over the money (my mom has complete control, but he never admits it).
Well, we are going to be GONE NEXT WEEK. So we couldn't pay it then. And it is closed on Friday. Which means we only have tomorrow. It was 7:45AM, and today is Wednesday! Which means if I told my mom when I was supposed to, that we would have only ONE day to deal with it. I know she likes as much time as possible to think about options. So I emailed her this: "We need to talk when you get home." And then she went all kinds of crazy over email, asking what happened with the financial aid, and called home and talked to my dad. He explained it all and told me that I was in trouble.
And now she is mad at me because I had a panic attack about the whole thing (but it was a lot more than just the school money thing).
She is so mad at me that she FORGOT TO MENTION that she has enough money to pay the $1800.
¬_¬

The funny thing is, is that yesterday I actually thought to myself that my life couldn't get any worse than it was right at that moment. I won't be thinking that again... it just shows me how wrong I am.

EDIT: I think I might take a break from PerC for a while... I leave on Sunday anyways. Thank you for letting me type this out.

[Yardiff Bey]

Ughhhhh.
To sum it up: I went to financial aid today. They told me it would take 4-6 weeks for my loan to be offered to me. Fees are due August 3rd. Cashier's window told me that I wouldn't have to pay the full $3200, but only $1800 so I could keep my classes. I would get the $1800 back when my loan kicks in.
I went and talked to all of these uni people with my dad, but he just stood behind me and never said a word. My mom made him go because she thinks that I am not forceful enough "with those awful financial aid people". ¬_¬ Those people are just doing their jobs, and I've met LOTS of nice people. She has never met any.
So when we found this out, my dad said we had three options: 1) Do nothing, 2) Hope my loan comes through by August 3rd, and 3) Find a way to pay the money. He said that paying the money was not probable at all, and that they would have to find another way. He told me not to expect to go to school this semester. Somehow I kept it all together, and right when we started driving, he told me he wanted a Starbucks coffee, and then we went to Kragen to get stuff for my car. And then we got home. I just totally lost it when we got home, and he "spoke sternly" (aka his version of yelling) and told me to stop crying and to not tell my mom until she got home from teaching summer school. He also told me that he knew he didn't have any control over the money (my mom has complete control, but he never admits it).
Well, we are going to be GONE NEXT WEEK. So we couldn't pay it then. And it is closed on Friday. Which means we only have tomorrow. It was 7:45AM, and today is Wednesday! Which means if I told my mom when I was supposed to, that we would have only ONE day to deal with it. I know she likes as much time as possible to think about options. So I emailed her this: "We need to talk when you get home." And then she went all kinds of crazy over email, asking what happened with the financial aid, and called home and talked to my dad. He explained it all and told me that I was in trouble.
And now she is mad at me because I had a panic attack about the whole thing (but it was a lot more than just the school money thing).
She is so mad at me that she FORGOT TO MENTION that she has enough money to pay the $1800.
¬_¬

The funny thing is, is that yesterday I actually thought to myself that my life couldn't get any worse than it was right at that moment. I won't be thinking that again... it just shows me how wrong I am.

EDIT: I think I might take a break from PerC for a while... I leave on Sunday anyways. Thank you for letting me type this out.

We're here for you girl. Take a break, we'll still be here.

[oldtoby]

<hugs> for da nosilla, things wont suck forever.

P.S. do you like birthday cake? i have cake you can have some.

Rantystuff....ran over somethign this morning, and my tyre is coming apart so now i got to blow a bunch of money on repairs, and miss work...not good.

[Deamo]

When will they learn - when requesting testing for some customer comms, ya absolutely, positively, cannot provide one set of criteria to us (the poeple that find & provide the test data), and a wholely different set of criteria to the print company and expect to get the result you want!

Not to mention, we kinda need more than 3 days notice when the brief provided to us is incomplete & vague.

[dagnytaggart]

YAY! Yet another client!! And I'll very likely sign on a Fortune 500 client - if my INTP partner doesn't ramble during his part of the presentation again! >.<

Life is good...and it better stay that way, or some INTP heads are going to roll...