Writer's Block: All-Nighter
Jun. 25th, 2009 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_archfiendIt figures this would be at a SF convention...
The last time I did this was at Capricon 8 in 1988; at that time, the first version of Doctor Who was going into a death spiral on the BBC and I wanted to catch some episodes from the last (in both senses of the word) season.
Unfortunately, those episodes aired from 2 am to roughly 7 am in the film room.
I succeeded - despite several 1-minute nod-offs - but was constantly hallucinating about friends from a room party passing me beers who weren't there. What fun.
Ever since then, no matter how wired I might be, I need at least a couple of hours of sleep in order to insure that my brain won't melt, seep out of my ear canals, reconstitute itself on the ground, sprout legs and run away.
Or something like that.
The last time I did this was at Capricon 8 in 1988; at that time, the first version of Doctor Who was going into a death spiral on the BBC and I wanted to catch some episodes from the last (in both senses of the word) season.
Unfortunately, those episodes aired from 2 am to roughly 7 am in the film room.
I succeeded - despite several 1-minute nod-offs - but was constantly hallucinating about friends from a room party passing me beers who weren't there. What fun.
Ever since then, no matter how wired I might be, I need at least a couple of hours of sleep in order to insure that my brain won't melt, seep out of my ear canals, reconstitute itself on the ground, sprout legs and run away.
Or something like that.
