All Nighter

Does anyone else ever tell themselves that they are going to go to bed early, so they can wake up and do stuff in the morning and be an active member of society? In reality though, they end up surfing the web till 7 am and consequently fall asleep and wake up some time before dinner? This is the life of a lonely 70 year old ='(

The night before an exam, which I was not prepared for, it started snowing. Of course, I was praying for a snow day. I spent 1/3 of the night studying and the rest following the snow storm. I kept going outside to make sure it was still snowing and looked at online weather reports. The depth kept increasing and the entire night I was thinking come on 7 inches, 7 inches, you can... Read More » deliver snow, you can do it. When it got to 7 inches and I got the text message saying campus was closed I launched my hands up in the air yelling "Yessss, there is a God!!" I learned more about that one blizzard than I did in the class. Best part it was Friday so I had the whole weekend to study.

I am going to stay up all night liking this story, because I want a little fame. No one seems to know I exist. -Bob

When I was about 16, my friend and I decided that we were going to stay up all night doing 99 stock battles on Super Smash Bros. Melee. It was getting really late, and our once epic battles turned to tired button-mashing. Just as we are about to call it quits and go to bed, I look along the wall on the floor, and see a scorpion just crawling along. We're both terrified of these... Read More » things, and neither of us have proper shoes, or even want to go near it. I successfully trapped the scorpion with a box so that my friend could go get her dad to help us. It escaped the box while she was gone a few times, but eventually he did come and squish the damn thing for us, with the advice that "It's really late, girls, you should go to sleep." We couldn't.

I am of Native American Descent. I somewhat look the part, but my roomate of last term was a racist Liberal Hippie who constantly flaunted how democrats removed my people to Oklahoma. One night, he locked me out of the room and left a note on the door- go to Oklahoma. I spent the entire night "fixing up" his truck. I am sorry if your redneck truck doesn't run on p*ss and if... Read More »*ss and if your engine smells like roadkill!

I used to pull all-nighters a lot and after studying all night slept through the test. Twice.

One time, during an all nighter, my friend and I kept passing out. It was like 6 in the morning, but still dark out cause it was winter. Then, out of nowhere, we both woke up from a doze when dozens of people start filtering into the lounge we were working in. These kids looked dead, like pale and bent out of shape. They didn't say anything, just filled the room and stood there.... Read More » Then, a couple minutes later, they all left. We FREAKED. Turns out there was just a fire alarm in one of the dorms at 6 in the morning, so it was just a bunch of tired kids who didn't feel like standing in the cold, but still. My friend and I didn't talk for a solid hour after that happened.

When my friends and I pull all-nighters, we have one rule: at 3AM, we all stop writing and watch old Iron Chef Japan episodes. One night we decided to splurge and watch the best ever episode, Battle Taco. We all got excited because tacos are the shit, but it turns out "taco" is Japanese for "octopus." Which, it turns out, was even better, because octopuses (octopi?) keep moving... Read More »octopi?) keep moving well after they've been butchered. There were tentacles crawling out of pots the entire episode.

This January, Steak 'n Shake opened their first store in Manhattan. They promised the first 150 customers free meals every week for a year to celebrate. They opened at 10 am. My friend and I showed up at 11pm the night before to guarantee our 52 free burgers. It was freezing. And raining. It was the worst conditions to stand in for 11 hours. We pushed on. We passed time by playing... Read More » best of 51 rock, paper, scissor matches, trying to sleep and complaining about how cold we were. I learned why being homeless is so miserable. Sleeping on the ground sucks all the heat out of your body. I tried lying on garbage cardboard boxes and retreating my arms and head into my jacket. I could not get warm. After enduring until 7am, I realized that I would never use the coupons because 1. Steak n' Shake is nowhere near my apartment, and 2. I try to eat healthy. I called it quits with three hours to go and the worst of it behind me. I went home and slept for two hours before work. All for nothing. That was dumb.

I've got to be up at 4:30. Still awake. Can't sleep. Gotta work 8 hours and then catch a ferry and go visit my parents. Ugh, god. I am gonna die.