Uberman

Well hello friends, i figure its about time to check in and say hello from San Luis. Lately life here has been a terrible bender of sleep deprivation and bleary-eyed motorcycle rides. As you may or may not know I am taking the senior design classes for aeronautics here and we are designing an unmanned cropduster over the course of the year.

Also, i just got into the graduate program here and am taking 3 grad classes this quarter, all of which have worked together to thoroughly pound me into the dirt by about now. There is some interesting work, we are laying up some carbon fiber composites, and designing a Mach 15 air/space plane (which is not what you see on the left, thats the lame slow boring cropduster) , but the department is painfully disorganized. Oh and theres a picture below of the cad model for that formula style racecar weve been working on.

Last weekend I went to Georgia and stayed in downtown Atlanta for the weekend for my cousins' wedding, which was a blast. Basically it was a family reunion for my dad's side of the family and I got a chance to get hammered with all my uncles and hit golf balls off the 10th story hotel balcony. One of my dad's brothers who I hadn't ever gotten to know turns out is a pretty interesting guy. He has a pot leaf tattooed on his shin and had some interesting stories about being in and out of jails.

Other news, remember Ashley from that night at the bars? Ian might know, but turns out i have been talking to her pretty much every day since i left Btown and long story short we are having a strange long distance relationship kind-of thing. She and Brenna should be moving to SF sometime soon so that will be better, and I can keep an eye on the young Cavanaugh.

By the way i'd like to recap the last couple weeks just to give you a better idea of how i have been sleeping. Beginning 2 sundays ago at 7:30 AM until Thurs. that week I clocked 6 hours of sleep, then got lucky and had 4 hours Thurs night before my 6AM flight to GA. During the weekend I was on CA time so i didnt go to sleep till 4:30 each night and was open-bar-drunk for both. Then last sunday I wake up, fly home with 2 hours of sleep on the plane and pull 2 all nighters in the lab ending the second one with a 2 hour nap before a full day of classes.

This brings me to the post title "Uberman". It's a sleep schedule where you sleep for 20 minutes every 4 hours around the clock, netting roughly 2 total hours of sleep each day. I'm planning on trying this out, i think after spring break (which is in 2 weeks). So far from what I've read people that succeed in breaking past the first week of exhaustion swear by this method, so we shall see.... :) more info here: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=892542&lastnode_id=124

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