QotD: Up All Night, Sleep All Day

When is the last time you stayed up all night?

Ummmmmm......I stay up all night, like, a lot.

The earliest I'll ever fall asleep is just before 2 AM. The latest I go to sleep is 8 AM. There's generally no in between, for a number of reasons. One, if I have absolutely no reason to stay awake, I do. If it's Saturday and time to call this late night political talk show,on the other hand, I'll conk out against my own will. It's a problem.

One reason I'll often find myself awake at the crack of dawn is this fanfiction crap I've gotten sucked into. I say that with the utmost affection, by the way. I'll tap away furiously at my keyboard into the morning hours, telling myself, "Okay, there's chapter three - you should finish by tomorrow night." Then the next night I go over my handiwork, and I wind up hating the whole thing and starting over again. I love writing, and I've loved it all my life, but I don't think I'd ever choose it as a profession. If ripping off TV shows can be this maddening, I don't want to even think about how I'd go about actually being original.