Healthy Thursday Student

So I got sick less on Tuesday. There is some 24-hour bug going around my dorm and I managed to catch it. I really don't want to go into details, but it was really bad. Also, never look up symptoms on Google unless you want to be scared for your life. I thought I had cholera for about an hour, though that could be because I read the Ghost Map last year (fantastic book, but a little gross at times). Anyways, I was out and about like a normal human being today after sheltering myself for all of Tuesday and as much of yesterday as I could. But now it is (well, 3 AM means that technically it was) Thursday, and all is better.

In a way it was the best time to get sick: though I had physics homework, calculus homework, and a 2-page paper due yesterday, this could have been much worse. It might have been during midterm season, which starts up next week. And baseball starts up on Monday. This was the last week where I could afford to be sick. And I took full advantage of it!

But the thing that I'm really worried about is the effect that this illness had on my sleep schedule. I was unable to sleep more than a few minutes Tuesday night because of constant trips to and from the bathroom. Then I slept for as much as possible Tuesday and Wednesday. So while I might be very well rested, my cycles have almost certainly been shifted. Today was a little bit tough, actually, but I'm looking forward to my 3 hour sleep coming up.

I still find the best thing about polyphasic sleep is that I go to sleep after everybody else, eliminating distractions and leading to a very productive Simon. Then I wake up before everybody else, eliminating distractions and leading to a very productive Simon. I am no longer stressed about long homework assignments. Even when I was sick I was never hit with the panic of it's-due-tomorrow-oh-no!-itis. I am able to free up pretty much the entirety of my day to whatever I feel like doing, whether it be getting a head start on homework, socializing, or just vegetating. Of course there are tradeoffs to each option, and I have to find time to nap every day (which is hard when socializing seems like a better idea) but I think it's paying off. We'll see if I can properly readjust after this stomach bug.

Also, for those of you who don't know, it's getting cold in Chicago.