Anyone got tips for getting into a regular sleeping pattern that won't throw you horribly out of whack if you go to sleep early or stay up late one night? It's seriously getting to be too much.

 

Dang, I'll just get a next gen console. I will be behind the times if I get a 360 now though, and I secretly want to be up to date with consoles and have my own for once hehe.

Instead of being the epitome of anti-cool, it makes you wise. Although I will maybe garner some hate from this but I say Windows 8 is not so bad. Of course I say this before installing any games or proper software.

 

There's nothing wrong with W8 per-say, they just need to tone down drug use while designing UX changes.

As I understand it, there are two main ways to reset the body clock. The first is to use melatonin to regulate the circadian rhythm, with the aim being that your body will want to be awake and asleep at appropriate times. The other is to take advantage of a survival mechanism, and simply not eat anything for 16 hours before you want to be waking up (and then you do have to eat once that wake up time rolls around). This tells your body when the good hunting hours are, and your body wants to be awake for that, because it likes getting food. For best results, particularly if you've not been eating anything when you wake up (or have been, but you are getting up late so breakfast is at 10am now), you might want to do both, gets the body all right on queue.

I'd say just attempt to wake up at the same time every day with an alarm. I find that when I started that a few weeks before school I started waking automatically within and hour of that time.

I'll remember that body clock trick when I'm next preparing for night shifts. :)

GTA V has lots of weed use at least. Not only can joints be rolled in front of TV, a bong is found in one character's room. And I ain't even gotten to the wackiest character yet. I have played the game only like 10 hours so far. Gone 7?%. This game is massssive.

What's wrong with seeing weed in a game? We see some on tv all the time.

420 glorify weed errday

Officially moved into my dorm room for my first night. It's pretty darn quiet right now, I guess a lot of people still have to move in. I'm hella mad at the lack of WiFi. oh well

I see no problem, weed is essentially legal in California, so it wouldn't make sense to ignore such a large part of the state's culture.

Them depression bouts - really liking smoking Djarum Blacks to relax in the evenings.

Agreed ^^

 

Weed is such a minor drug to be concerned over, but because it's such an accepted drug and it's legalization varies from place to place, it's the easiest one to get people wild-up over, which is why we're ignoring the references to harder drugs in the game. No one wants to discuss cocaine, meth, etc etc because it's already so widely decided that they're horrible drugs.

Them depression bouts - really liking smoking Djarum Blacks to relax in the evenings.

I'm not a tobacco smoker but I immensely enjoy Djarum Blacks about once a month or so. They just taste so incredible.

 

I've started joining Circle K (a service organization, a collegiate version of the Kiwanis club) at my school and I'm really liking the atmosphere there so far. I had new member orientation for it today and I'm really excited to try to stick with it this year.

 

Also, my friend found a music practice room with a drum set in it in his dorm, so him, me, another close friend, and a guy we met through our school's facebook group all got together to jam tonight. It went amazingly. It was our first time all playing together but it worked out really well. I'm realllllly hoping we can all make this into another band; I miss playing music so much.

looks like aus might be getting some rad gay marriage after all

Going to see The XX tonight - so psyched.

I'm really enjoying my Computer Science class so far, writing a program that properly compiles and runs is just so satisfying.

Try getting through a two hour computer lab on 6 hours of sleep after having taken two tests that day. That was made just oh so much better by being the designated computer monkey for that day, which mostly consisted of me having almost no reading comprehension and needing to read instructions multiple times, unless someone read them too me. Still a pretty good day though, things went pretty well aside from the linear algebra I very nearly slept through (not fatigue, just boring). Kind of reminded me of the day I was lifeguarding, and for lack of anything interesting happening (and the layout of the beach dictating that the other lifeguard spent most of her time out of conversation range) I spent a few hours working out square roots to multiple decimal places in my head. That kind of boring.

 

On the upside, I still have enough beef left for one more round of provolone cheese tacos. More time consuming than my normal, but fun in it's own way. Only problem is I really have to dominate the kitchen when I make them, so I've mostly been making them when no one else is around. Also, messy messy food, but so good.

Going to see The XX tonight - so psyched.

 

That was the best show I have ever been to in my entire life. Everything about it was sublime. Sound, lighting, the crowd, the music, everything - pure perfection.

My dad bought Disney Infinity and all of the figurines for it out of the blue. It's so much more fun than I had expected it to be.

My dad bought Disney Infinity and all of the figurines for it out of the blue. It's so much more fun than I had expected it to be.

Ive seen a lot of really good reviews about it lately. It's a disney-based sandbox game, isn't it?

 

My dad bought Disney Infinity and all of the figurines for it out of the blue. It's so much more fun than I had expected it to be.

Ive seen a lot of really good reviews about it lately. It's a disney-based sandbox game, isn't it?

 

Yes. I've only played some of the Pirate world and some of the Cars world but essentially you're collecting items through the stories for use in the Toybox to build whatever you want.

How to play paintball as Tim:

 

Break your ankle within 5 minutes of playing.

Today, I am hitting the boat, to be in Sweden tomorrow where I will hit the plane, to be in Indonesia by Monday evening.

That is a lifelong dream trip to come through.

Grand Theft Auto V robbery: Three teenagers charged

Cue mass hysteria about link between video games and violence!!!

I got to see this in person yesterday. It was way better live but this is still worth watching:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdrqdW4Miao

Grand Theft Auto V robbery: Three teenagers charged

 

Cue mass hysteria about link between video games and violence!!!

 

Back in the 90's, people were getting robbed, beat up and knifed for their Chicago Bulls gear or Air Jordans and no one ever said basketball encouraged violence. Games like GTA are just a convenient scapegoat in lieu of admitting to bad parenting.

 

It's like the song "Blame Canada" from the South Park movie, the parents need to blame something for their kids' bad behaviour "before somebody thinks of blaming us!".