As usual, Buck is funny!
October 5th, 2007
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Oct 07
Chris Crocker Sued For $1 Million?
Whoever’s doing this, good luck on collecting. I just came across Perez Hilton‘s breaking news on Chris Crocker when going through my YouTube subscriptions.
Like his allegations about Castro being dead, Perez isn’t spilling the beans on where he got his info about Chris Crocker. The only thing Perez is absolutely clear about is refusing to write about Chris “Please Leave Britney Alone” in his blog. Like someone else I know, he’s officially declared Crocker’s 15 minutes of fame over.
Update: TMZ has all the sleazy details on the lawsuit.
For a change of pace and a little bit of eye candy visuals, watch What The Buck‘s radio interview with Albert Reed.
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Oct 07
Siesta? I Wish!
If you’re one of those healthy yet perpetually underrested there’s plenty you can do to pay back your sleep debt. For starters, you can catch up on lost time. Take your mom’s advice and go to bed early. Turn off the TV a half hour earlier than usual. If you can’t manage to snooze longer at night, try to squeeze in a noonday nap. The best time for a siesta is between noon and three p.m., for about 30 to 60 minutes, according to Timothy Roehrs, director of research at the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He advises against oversleeping on the weekend mornings to make up for a workweek of deprivation; later rising can disrupt your circadian rhythm, making it even harder to get a full night’s rest.
from “Sleeping Your Way To The Top” by Sora Song
I wish following these solutions were so easy. I went over Sora Song’s essay with its deliciously double entente title with my my students and we all agreed with her point that Americans are unrested. What she proposes in the tiny little paragraph above, however, didn’t seem so realistic according to our consensus. We’re all busy working for peanuts and going to school, and American culture does not shut down for siestas. This means lots of coffee, energy drinks (yuck!), and other methods of coping with lack of sleep.
I’ve had courses at insane hours (i.e. 7:00am), and I’ve been extremely busy with classes. There have been a few times over the summer where I meant to take a nap and it turned into late afternoon/all night sleepathon. I haven’t had the luxury of a killer nap this semester. Fridays, a day free of any courses, has been the sleep-in day of the fall season. Perhaps this throws off my circadian rhythms, but I have nowhere to go that day.
Finding time to do all those things and get some sleep – that’s the challenge. Hopefully, next semester is saner.
