Insomniacs, the Phantoms of the Internet 234
theodp writes "Ever since she was a toddler, freelance writer Lily Burana has been a Stay Up Late kind of girl. When her kindergarten teacher asked students 'What time do you go to bed?,' young Lily felt compelled to lie rather than rat out her own mother by saying, 'Oh, between midnight and 1 a.m.' She still suffers from insomnia, but has discovered that Facebook is the Promised Land for the awake and alone. She finds comfort in the company of others who, like her, live counter to the conventional rhythm of a sunny-day world."
Anybody here? (Score:3, Funny)
She better change her email pw (Score:2, Funny)
Say What You Like About Facebook.. (Score:1, Funny)
..but their PRs damned quick to put out some crap on how simply lovely its togetherness is anywhere theres a big, bad story on how its founders steal your passwords and go through your emails. RESPECT!
Re:Anybody here? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Anybody here? (Score:5, Funny)
She finds comfort in the company of others who, like her, live counter to the conventional rhythm of a sunny-day world
Like most people in Britain then . . .
Re:Anybody here? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm in Australia you insensitive clod!
Anything else? (Score:5, Funny)
She was a stripper, is there anything else I need to know? I probably won't hear anything else after the word stripper, anyway....
I'll be here all night.
Soldier's rhythm (Score:3, Funny)
The article makes an interesting point: her husband "keeping up a soldier's rhythm". I suffered from exactly the same problem during childhood and adolescence, until the Dutch Marines made the error of accepting me in their ranks. It totally cured me. ( Being daily kicked and yelled out of your bunk at 5 am is a sort of a horse's medicine, but Gawd - did it work !! )
Poor girl (Score:5, Funny)
This is obviously a desperate cry for help from Lily - she's never been able to escape the shadow of her more famous sister, Carmina.
Re:Soldier's rhythm (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, that was a complaint about his habit of chanting those military "marching songs" while they're having sex. "I don't know, but I've been told... In, Out. In, Out..."
Or so I imagine.
Pah! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"insomnia" is probably the wrong word (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Anybody here? (Score:5, Funny)
Argh, blinding object in the sky (Score:5, Funny)
"These lumivores reject the safety of darkness and appear to seek out light. Sickening ! [angryflower.com]"
Re:Anybody here? (Score:3, Funny)
you brush your teeth with your roommate? (Score:2, Funny)
> "It was kind of a strange sensation brushing my teeth with my roommate at midnight; She was going to bed, i just got up."
Have you never heard of a toothbrush?
Re:Anybody here? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Anybody here? (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe, but what's really bad is there are parts of the US that seem to close down by 2300 GMT too.
Re:Anybody here? (Score:3, Funny)
So what about if you have one tab open to /. and another tab open to facebook? Is that pathetic yet geeky-cool or just plain pathetic?
Re:you brush your teeth with your roommate? (Score:2, Funny)
"move with a sibilant sound"; "gush or squirt out"; "a breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed"
Re:Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome is the right word (Score:4, Funny)
Calling it a disease is wrong. Saying it can be cured is like trying to bleach a black man white or beating a gay man with officially approved porn.
So it's possible then.
Re:Pah! (Score:2, Funny)