Horrible questions asks: 12, 26, 30
12: Have you ever stayed up 48 hours?
I'm not sure of the exact count, but we've both stayed up for two consequential days to some capacity for different reasons. I've done it out of stress and sleeplessness, my brother because it became... difficult for him to follow time or read the bodily cues he had for tiredness. He'd think he had slept but he hadn't, or thought that he hadn't but had. The longer he went without sleep the worse it would get. On the other hand, before that became his reality, I'm almost certain he would have already been able to claim the achievement for one long-running party or another. For me, it was never an achievement, more of a curse. And at parties I'd be found sleeping it off someplace quieter.
But as indicated, I can't say if that was 36 hours or 48 or anything inbetween or above. Too long. And even then it might have only been cut off by a couple hours of sleep before I (we) needed to get up again. (Parenthesis for we because in all reality it would be impossible to stir my brother if he did not agree to rise and even I would have difficulty achieving this at times.)
26: What are you craving right now?
A good, filling home-made meal. Anything except the kind of rubbish we have readily available. I'm starving but - can I be honest here? I don't have what it takes to be cooking at this time and I'm not sure how the everyday person in this society continuously survives without dedicated kitchen staff. Somehow I've also become so poor that simply buying a balanced meal from the market is not an option. Where have the community kitchens gone to? Where do you go to have a decent meal for a price the average porter or a farmyard worker can afford to pay? It's outrageous.
30: What’s irritating you right now?
This perpetual tiredness. From experience I suspect it lifts at some point but I find it difficult to acclimate to being so tired, despite proper sleep, that I can't do much outside of bed but I'm either somehow too tired to sleep, or it's not sleep that my body needs. And maybe it's something else than irritating also - existentially terrifying? - but mostly I find myself irritated by it, plain and simple. I want to do something else than rest and idle but I am so tired, somehow, in my head and body, that I cannot.
I have an inkling that the above regarding nutrition is not helping the cause here.
