Tonight we sleep in separate ditches.

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Who stays awake two to three days at a stretch more often than occasionally?

I last did this sort of thing on any sort of regular basis when I was editing a student newspaper ten, no eleven, years ago. (At 28, I was the Old Man of the office.) I'd make it through the last few hours having a Berocca every hour and a Sudafed every second hour. Your writing quality gets really crap by about hour thirty, by the way — the grammar and punctuation is there, but having anything at all to say or saying it at all well goes right out the window. (Though I did write one of my best articles ever around hour 34. I had all my notes right in order, though.)

Best bit is going home afterwards on the tram, around hour 40, and looking both trashed and meeeannn. Because junkies try to buy drugs from you, and take it personally when you say you're not a dealer. Well, they did me, anyway. They also did it when I'd had a REALLY BAD DAY at work. Even skinny weedy BOFHs don't get hassled walking down dark alleys when they're projecting that.

Sleep. Sleep is definitely my favourite drug ever. Well, no, cloves are. But sleep is up there.