Sleep Strike

Sleep deprivation is no good. One thing that I've learned about myself while managing full-time work and full-time school is that when I'm sleep deprived, I'm a total mess. Everything I say has some kind of Jerry Seinfeld-like screaming involved, and although I might be funnier than usual (or rather think that I'm funnier than usual), I'm also really ridiculous. As the end of this insane chapter of my life comes to a close in the coming months, I've made a concerted effort to not go bad sh*t crazy. Sleep is the number one necessity in this effort.

So, when I learned today about the Occupy DC protestors depriving themselves of sleep by going on a sleep strike, I had mixed feelings. It seems like a good response to a rule of no sleeping in the park. Yet, all it will probably do is make them seem crazier than people already think they are. And the truth is, they will be crazier. One only needs to watch Fight Club to see the potential repurcussions.

Maybe the Occupy Movement can get Mike D and the boys to write a metal mantra for the moment? Something like "no sleep 'till Wall Street"...