Sleepy Logger

My senior high history teacher once said that he only sleeps 4 hours a day. He said if you sleep 8 hours, you'd spend 1/3 of your life sleeping, and when you sleep, you don't get anything done. That inspired my sleep-pinching ways during university. Though people who know me would testify otherwise and they wouldn't be lying; I managed only to implement it halfway. I stay awake late (to increase uptime) and try to still get up early (to reduce downtime), guess which part always fail.

Along the way, I've compromised that principle and chose to get enough sleep so as not to be on the verge of drop down snoring all day. Yes, having a defined working hours contribute to that. Still, I found out I keep logging into dream world pretty late anyway. So here's an idea: let's be somewhat accountable and log my bedtime and wake up time everyday, maybe some interesting pattern would emerge. besides, looking at some numbers might (significantly) reduce the ambiguity in 'enough sleep' and 'not enough sleep'.

So how's the result? After 3 weeks, I see an entirely not rare pattern. Not much sleep in the weekdays, and quite much during the weekends (and holidays). In numbers:

• average weekdays: 5.89 hours
• average weekends: 9.13 hours

How healthy it is, I'll decide when I finally break down.

While I'm at it, I also log what kind of meal I have everyday. Nothing fancy like how much sugar or fat or awesome each have, just what it is called. Two interesting result so far are: I habitually skip breakfast in the weekends, and the later I get off work, the more snack I have.