1) Depends on what you consider above average. There's definitely that group of people where this is the norm, but in my categories of gaming, I wouldn't say this quite fits into Above-average. 2) When skipping these necessities becomes a habbit that you start to perform regularly. 3) Summer of '08. I was one week from the new school year starting, and I'd left like I hadn't accomplished much in RS. So I stayed up ~36 or so hours straight with only food/bathroom breaks, and spent that whole time smithing.