All Night

The last week or so has been some of the crappest days of my life, to be fair.
My phone got stolen, I did a rubbish presentation for studio, and because I'd worked so hard for studio I sacrificed time I could have evened out onto the other subjects I take. All the while I was missing a whole lot of sleep - I'm still recovering.

4 out of the 7 days of the week leading up to Friday the 3rd of June were all-nighters.
There's something actually attractive about an all-nighter. I've gotten used to the feeling. You're kinda delirious the whole time, and you sort of tune-out to the normal world. Patterns in life stop becoming recurring, and time just freezes into one sort of big blur, so much so it becomes meaningless. When you never sleep, and you're constantly working, time becomes irrelevant. The only kind of reference point you have is hunger, and I guess night and day.

It's saddening when you see the sun rise through a window, with no sleep in between.

In the end though, I enjoyed what I got out of it. There's something rewarding about working your ass off for a while, even if you get shit all out of it.

I got to be good friends with Dai, who I had only sort of talked to in small amounts with before, pretty quickly after spending almost a week together with a small group of other people intermittently coming and going.
It's too hard to try and summarise all the things that happened, but Dai took a bunch of photos and put the best ones on Facebook. I'll put in some captions to try and explain what they're about. I figure visual medium might explain this best. They're in no particular order.


Doing some computer modelling in a stupid posture.

The stack of chairs we built. This was actually the penultimate night and we were very stir crazy.

The remnants of our group meal. Randwick Pizza Hut, courtesy of James.

My all-nighter kit. Sleeping bag and mat.

Me gesturing stupidly that we had made a "playhouse" with two storeys in the computer room with the desks from outside. Monica sits in the background.

Leo and Josh at about 4am, doing some plastering and painting of their foamies. James is asleep under the sleeping bag behind them both.

I was taking a brief 30 minute nap at about 8pm. Dai was under strict instructions not to let me sleep longer than thirty minutes because otherwise I would be wasting time.

The first day, when I had not yet started the all-nighter period. It started this night. Chloe and I in the workshop.

Lukas, in his pyjama pants and sleeping gear. He slept every night just on the floor. He's from the Central Coast and catches the train down every day, except for when he's sleeping at uni.