私の生きた証拠

Apparently I fell asleep on the chair last night and somehow woke up and made my way to the bed where I lay dead to the world for over eight hours.

This has to stop somehow. I can’t afford to keep falling asleep at the chair before finishing (or at least doing some of) my work. The chair’s comfortable, but I’ve generally proven myself to be capable of falling asleep just about anytime anywhere (and unlike Yakumo I can’t afford to do so, and like her there isn’t any one to wake me up (though the reasons are pretty different).

Something’s got to be wrong. Is it the air circulation? That’s a possibility considering that the air conditioner’s on just about every minute I spend in the room (plus some of the time I am not inside), and if that’s the case I’m screwed, since unlike rich kids (won’t mention names here, but I know too many of them) I can’t afford to change an air conditioner. On the other hand, I can’t very well turn it off since the temperatures in Singapore are unbearable year-round, and the air circulation will be badly impaired due to the nature of modifications made to the walls. Still, if I allow this problem to persist the consequences are likely to be dire.

However, it is interesting to note that people of my age are technically supposed to get eight to nine hours of sleep (no citations; when it’s not PW I REFUSE to consider citations), but the average (from casual polls around the class and other people) seems to hover at around 60-70% of that figure. Essentially, everybody lacks sleep.

The pressures of the basic school life (RJC style, no less, but still the basic) are already formidable for many, but the bundle of straw (there aren’t single straws here - all your work collapses on you in a pile, never little by little) that really breaks the back would be club involvement. Travelling time (which doesn’t really apply to me but the walk home usually leaves me demoralized and exhausted for inexplicable reasons) is also a factor, and coupled with the sheer attractiveness of this cursed site time spent at home is generally guaranteed to be unproductive. Of late I’ve been spending more time on work, only to have my sleeping hours spiral out of control (albeit too much of it - or by recommended levels, acceptable).

Essentially, to be a good student and get into a good college, sleeping ENOUGH is NOT recommended. If you’re going to this school for anything other medicine, then it’s a completely different ball game. In that case, get all the sleep you want - you’ll regret it if you don’t.

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