Once I set a record of working 36 hours at Big Planet. It is not a proud moment in my life, but I did work for 36 hours straight. I did clock out and clock back in a few times so that they just did not think that I did not clock out for a full day.

In this story, I did not work for 36 hours straight. What I did do was stay up for 36 hours. I stayed up for 36 hours mostly because of work. I told someone that I would cover their shift so that they could have the night off. I worked that day from 7am to 6pm and then came back in at 10pm and worked till noon the next day. The guys shift that I was covering was from 10pm to 7am and my shift on Saturday morning was from 7am to noon.

During the last few hours of my shift I was quite delirious. I was really struggling taking those phone calls. My friend Vegor was telling stories at work and I ended up just taking an hour break at one point while I was on chat because I really could not even think when I was supposed to be doing emails. I should have just gone home early because I was wasting the company’s money.

I could have gone to bed after my shift, but I did not want to throw off my internal clock so I just was forcing myself to stay awake. Yes I am a moron, but that is how I tried to get my body back into the groove of wanting to go to bed when it is late and get up when it is morning.

That night I was very illogical and I could hardly think. Some friends came over that evening and watched movies. I was not really there. I was mostly just a waste of skin sitting there on the couch.

I am going to try not to kill myself like this in the future. My body is not recovering from lack of sleep as it used to recover in the past.