I don't really know much about blogging. I can't make my own stylish header and I don't know where people find all those templates. I just need a place to get things off my chest.
I have been experiencing some pretty strange things--things I can't explain and sometimes don't want to. While I am experiencing weird things, I guess it would probably be more accurate to say I am discovering unusual things about me.
For example, I don't need to sleep. I can sleep, but if I skip a couple days or a couple weeks, I don't seem to be any worse for the wear. I just found this out a couple of weeks ago, when I had to work through the weekend to finish a high-priority project at the firm. Since I am pretty new at the job, I had never worked like that before. I billed 56 hours straight. It was pretty intense.
There were nine or ten of us associates and one partner crowded around the conference room table between with piles of notes, draft contracts, and foam coffee cups. At first, I downed the coffee just like the rest of the lawyers, but the frequent bathroom breaks were ruining my flow and cutting into my billables. So I just stopped drinking it. Turns out, I didn't get tired. At all. The partner overseeing our work seemed pretty impressed.
I kind of got curious on Sunday night after the weekend push and decided to conduct my own sleep deprivation experiment. I haven't slept a wink since and I have yet to feel tired. But I have started noticing a lot of other unusual abilities. At first, I thought I was just losing my grip on reality. After all, sleep deprivation -- I looked this up on Wikipedia -- can cause all sorts of side effects like delusions and hallucinations. But then I verified my abilities with a disinterested third party who has chosen to remain anonymous.
They are real.
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