It is your bladder that makes you do that as a result of your kidneys filling it because your blood doesn’t like contaminants and insists they be purged. Clearly the solution is to stop having blood.
My body came up with a brilliant solution: Can’t wake up needing to pee if your kidneys don’t do anything!
Of course, this means that I have to spend 12+ hours a week having my precious lifejuice run through a dialysis machine, but that’s a small price to pay for a full night’s sleep.
Liz
The rest of us are stuck in 2020 while you’re out here living in 2352
Hrmm. Waking up at 4 to jog an hour and then come back to bed? That sounds nicer.
I wish I didn’t live by a friggin highway so I could go out and do that stuff without worrying some drunk jackass will run me over.
I don’t know – I personally definitely need to shower after a run and then going to bed after showering just to get up an hour or two later…
And I’ve just checked (I’m used to celsius) and now I’m wondering how Dorothy isn’t in ice-block-form right now. If I can avoid it I don’t go for a run below 5°C, especially at night/morning, because the cold air literally hurts my nose while breathing.
So yeah, Ughhhh.
(Okay, sorry if I’m spamming at this point but this is the post I meant to reply to.)
If (and it’s a big if) Dorothy were to actually pull the fire alarm as a prank she’d do in when the building was at its emptiest, in keeping with the whole ‘mildly subversive’ thing.
If (and it’s a big if) Dorothy were to actually pull the fire alarm as a prank she’d do in when the building was at its emptiest, in keeping with the whole ‘mildly subversive’ thing.
Unless she’s like me; gets up super early to do my healthy habit for the day, come home after an hour and sleep for 3 more hours till I have to go to work.
But who are we kidding, Dorothy’s probably better then me.
I’ll bite: how did Ethan and Walky interact with Mike?
Did Amber make Mike real by wishing REALLY hard?
Is Ethan somehow subject to Amber’s delusion?
Is Mike a Long-Range Physical Stand and Amazigirl just hasn’t been trying hard enough to manifest HER Stand?
Cholma
Turns out Dumbing of Age is just the comic version of LOST. Sal *wasn’t* the one that got stabbed all those years ago: it was Amber, who is bleeding out on the store floor, imagining everything you’ve seen in DoA. Willis goes for the long con!
I think this is the scene when they do a headcount, realize Mike is missing, assume he’s shacked up in a different dorm building with an unknown fuckbuddy, and resume ignoring his absence.
A headcount? They’re college students, mostly adults. They’re allowed to be places other than their dorm (Dorothy just said she was about to leave), so nobody knows how many people are supposed to have evacuated.
There must be some kind of a check though, to make sure someone didn’t sleep through the alarm and burn. Nothing to do with adults, just a safety matter.
Norah
I mean, if it was a real alarm.
Dara
I can’t speak for other schools, but some operate kind of like an apartment building, just with an RA on each floor. At mine, there was no such thing as resident sign out to keep up with who was in at the time. The only sign-in/sign-out our dorm had was for guests, and at 4am, the front desk would have been closed anyway. The dorm nearest to mine didn’t even have a front desk; they just a key card entry.
We had the threat of being fined ($50, I think) if we didn’t leave during a fire alarm, regardless of whether it was for a real emergency, but since RAs had to evacuate with everyone else and when they banged on the door, all you had to do was just…not respond, it was kind of an unenforceable.
Our RAs couldn’t open each person’s doors on their floor because there was only one set of master keys and that was for the RA on call, and that RA was NOT going to go through 8 floors of residents to make sure nobody stayed in their room.
SuperZero
Making guests sign in is kind of pointless if the front desk closes.
Dara
I never understood that, either. I worked the midnight – 4 am shift several days/week and I think the desk reopened at 7 or 8.
It also meant if you’d left your card key in your room or something and got back after the desk closed, you’d have to call one of your friends who lived there to let you in. Or use the external phone to call the RA on call and hope they weren’t the ones who’d fill out the lock-out form to charge you a $5 fine. (Most RAs would just stagger downstairs and let you in and go back to bed, but there were a couple by-the-book-always who would do the form every time)
Norah
Crap, I wish I could edit my post. What I meant was, the RA could have a sheet with the names of all the people in the dorm. They could go down the list. The reason for this wouldn’t be to find out if someone had come home or was sleeping in another dorm, or any other “parent” type things. The reason would be to make sure someone hadn’t slept through the alarm and, if it was a real fire, would now be in danger.
In this case, when they got to Mike, Walky would say he hadn’t come back that night.
Of course, I don’t know if this is how things are handled or not. I was only in dorms a year and we didn’t have any alarms in that time. I do know that after the Nisqually earthquake in 2001, the company I worked for at the time instituted a rule that in case of an earthquake, fire or other reason to evacuate the building, each department head would do a roll call or head count of their department to make sure no one was stuck inside. This was because after the earthquake, no one checked on a guy who had a broken leg, and he had a hard time getting down the stairs and out of the building when we evacuated.
SuperZero
They do that by checking the rooms. The list wouldn’t tell them anything since most “missing” students weren’t there in the first place.
Also a dorm with no fire alarms for a year? That is.. an outlier.
thejeff
Remember Billie and drunken Ruth hiding in the half-bath when Billie pulled the fire alarm?
When we work, Mrs. Abides and myself are typically going to bed when the sun comes up. It’s not bitterness so much as not comprehending people who pretend night shifts don’t exist.
Plus, we always see ones from my sister-in-law, who puts captions on them designed to irritate non-morning people. She’s even told us that she gets worried when we don’t send a friendly “fuck you” before a post-work sunrise picture shows up.
Kinoko
Hah, if it’s friendly then that’s all good!
I don’t post sunrise photos because I don’t get up *that* early, but I go running in the morning when I’m able. The online running community is also super positive and encouraging of each other, so the idea of someone hating on another person’s morning workout really bothers me because it’s been ingrained into me to be supportive.
111 thoughts on “Clear-eyed”
Ana Chronistic
I would’ve been up, too
but bc my kidneys wake me up in the middle of the night to excrete urine before making me unable to fall BACK asleep
Rose by Any Other Name
Ugh. I hate when that happens.
Ana Chronistic
DAMN IT
Sam
It is your bladder that makes you do that as a result of your kidneys filling it because your blood doesn’t like contaminants and insists they be purged. Clearly the solution is to stop having blood.
thejeff
It is a solution. Not having blood would certainly prevent you from waking up in the middle of the night.
Allandrel
My body came up with a brilliant solution: Can’t wake up needing to pee if your kidneys don’t do anything!
Of course, this means that I have to spend 12+ hours a week having my precious lifejuice run through a dialysis machine, but that’s a small price to pay for a full night’s sleep.
Liz
The rest of us are stuck in 2020 while you’re out here living in 2352
Alan in DC
This semester probably won’t be over UNTIL 2352.
Ana Chronistic
I mean, until I found out it was multiple times a week, I wondered if dialysis was worth being able to eat meat again
Allandrel
I can assure you that it is not worth it, and eating cows is one of my favorite activities.
Kyrik Michalowski
Sarah is on point here, screw you and your healthy habits Dorothy. 😛
Mr D
Jogging with that cold? Ughhhh.
Hrmm. Waking up at 4 to jog an hour and then come back to bed? That sounds nicer.
I wish I didn’t live by a friggin highway so I could go out and do that stuff without worrying some drunk jackass will run me over.
Coma
I don’t know – I personally definitely need to shower after a run and then going to bed after showering just to get up an hour or two later…
And I’ve just checked (I’m used to celsius) and now I’m wondering how Dorothy isn’t in ice-block-form right now. If I can avoid it I don’t go for a run below 5°C, especially at night/morning, because the cold air literally hurts my nose while breathing.
So yeah, Ughhhh.
abysswatcher1993
Don’t shame her for being productive. It’s our fault we sleep late and wake up late.
SuperZero
Being up in the middle of the night isn’t exactly an inherently “healthy habit.”
Doctor_Who
Plot twist: Dorothy pulled the alarm as a joke because she knows she can outrun everyone else out there.
AntJ
cruisin’ rebelstyle, homeslice
Cattleprod
(Okay, sorry if I’m spamming at this point but this is the post I meant to reply to.)
If (and it’s a big if) Dorothy were to actually pull the fire alarm as a prank she’d do in when the building was at its emptiest, in keeping with the whole ‘mildly subversive’ thing.
Cholma
Dorothy gets up at 4AM to go jogging?! What time is her first class or how far does she run? I didn’t even get up that early for PT in the Army! :O
King Daniel
Her first class is at 8:00, IIRC.
Cattleprod
If (and it’s a big if) Dorothy were to actually pull the fire alarm as a prank she’d do in when the building was at its emptiest, in keeping with the whole ‘mildly subversive’ thing.
Cattleprod
… replied to the wrong thing and there’s no delete button.
Nagev
Unless she’s like me; gets up super early to do my healthy habit for the day, come home after an hour and sleep for 3 more hours till I have to go to work.
But who are we kidding, Dorothy’s probably better then me.
ktbear
I suspect Dorothy is better than all of us.
Vangeln
So Amber didn’t complete the all nighter.
clif
ugh!
Dafydd
So…will Mike just show up? Or will this be when they notice he isn’t here?
FaerwenofValenwood
Could Amazi-Girl have pulled the alarm herself for that very purpose or is this theory too crackpot?
Adam Black
no, the consensus is the pot ( plot ) is somewhere between wildly cracky and full on crack party pot.
brionl
Plot twist, Mike has always been Amber’s imaginary “friend”…
Khyrin
I’ll bite: how did Ethan and Walky interact with Mike?
Did Amber make Mike real by wishing REALLY hard?
Is Ethan somehow subject to Amber’s delusion?
Is Mike a Long-Range Physical Stand and Amazigirl just hasn’t been trying hard enough to manifest HER Stand?
Cholma
Turns out Dumbing of Age is just the comic version of LOST. Sal *wasn’t* the one that got stabbed all those years ago: it was Amber, who is bleeding out on the store floor, imagining everything you’ve seen in DoA. Willis goes for the long con!
Kyoulkoa
There is no Mike
Hmrc4evr
Only Zuul?
CrazyJ
Goodbye Carla, the Queen of Rutten…
Reltzik
I think this is the scene when they do a headcount, realize Mike is missing, assume he’s shacked up in a different dorm building with an unknown fuckbuddy, and resume ignoring his absence.
SuperZero
A headcount? They’re college students, mostly adults. They’re allowed to be places other than their dorm (Dorothy just said she was about to leave), so nobody knows how many people are supposed to have evacuated.
Jess
wasn’t there a mention of a sign out sheet? My college had that for the specific reason of people being out of the building during a fire alarm
SuperZero
In that case he never signed in, so counting the people who are supposed to be there wouldn’t notice his absence either.
Norah
There must be some kind of a check though, to make sure someone didn’t sleep through the alarm and burn. Nothing to do with adults, just a safety matter.
Norah
I mean, if it was a real alarm.
Dara
I can’t speak for other schools, but some operate kind of like an apartment building, just with an RA on each floor. At mine, there was no such thing as resident sign out to keep up with who was in at the time. The only sign-in/sign-out our dorm had was for guests, and at 4am, the front desk would have been closed anyway. The dorm nearest to mine didn’t even have a front desk; they just a key card entry.
We had the threat of being fined ($50, I think) if we didn’t leave during a fire alarm, regardless of whether it was for a real emergency, but since RAs had to evacuate with everyone else and when they banged on the door, all you had to do was just…not respond, it was kind of an unenforceable.
Our RAs couldn’t open each person’s doors on their floor because there was only one set of master keys and that was for the RA on call, and that RA was NOT going to go through 8 floors of residents to make sure nobody stayed in their room.
SuperZero
Making guests sign in is kind of pointless if the front desk closes.
Dara
I never understood that, either. I worked the midnight – 4 am shift several days/week and I think the desk reopened at 7 or 8.
It also meant if you’d left your card key in your room or something and got back after the desk closed, you’d have to call one of your friends who lived there to let you in. Or use the external phone to call the RA on call and hope they weren’t the ones who’d fill out the lock-out form to charge you a $5 fine. (Most RAs would just stagger downstairs and let you in and go back to bed, but there were a couple by-the-book-always who would do the form every time)
Norah
Crap, I wish I could edit my post. What I meant was, the RA could have a sheet with the names of all the people in the dorm. They could go down the list. The reason for this wouldn’t be to find out if someone had come home or was sleeping in another dorm, or any other “parent” type things. The reason would be to make sure someone hadn’t slept through the alarm and, if it was a real fire, would now be in danger.
In this case, when they got to Mike, Walky would say he hadn’t come back that night.
Of course, I don’t know if this is how things are handled or not. I was only in dorms a year and we didn’t have any alarms in that time. I do know that after the Nisqually earthquake in 2001, the company I worked for at the time instituted a rule that in case of an earthquake, fire or other reason to evacuate the building, each department head would do a roll call or head count of their department to make sure no one was stuck inside. This was because after the earthquake, no one checked on a guy who had a broken leg, and he had a hard time getting down the stairs and out of the building when we evacuated.
SuperZero
They do that by checking the rooms. The list wouldn’t tell them anything since most “missing” students weren’t there in the first place.
Also a dorm with no fire alarms for a year? That is.. an outlier.
thejeff
Remember Billie and drunken Ruth hiding in the half-bath when Billie pulled the fire alarm?
Bryy
Of course the dark shit happens on an early morning fire alarm pull.
ThatGuyNamedSam
Lmao, fantastic alt-text today
DailyBrad
Carla is fucking great.
a/snow/mous/e
Dina looks pretty alert as well.
Deanatay
She gets a GREAT night’s sleep on the Velociplushie.
abysswatcher1993
Dorothy would get along with Solaire of Astora and Ferdinand Von Aegir. No need to shame her, Sarah. It’s your fault being an antisocial jerkass.
Also, is that Roz with a new fling.
Nice pun, Carla.
dorothykeener
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Suet
joyce_brown ?
its_walky ?
dina_saruyama ?
Suet
*rechecks alt-text* Darn it, Willis, now my skit is ruined! (among others)
BigDogLittleCat
I am worried about Fuckface. Malaya’s reassurances to him are foreboding.
King Daniel
At least Dorothy’s in a good enough headspace to start jogging again?
Kinoko
People reply “fuck you” to sunrise photos? How bitter do you have to be? Just let others be happy.
Bagge
Like, Sarah level bitter?
He Who Abides
When we work, Mrs. Abides and myself are typically going to bed when the sun comes up. It’s not bitterness so much as not comprehending people who pretend night shifts don’t exist.
Plus, we always see ones from my sister-in-law, who puts captions on them designed to irritate non-morning people. She’s even told us that she gets worried when we don’t send a friendly “fuck you” before a post-work sunrise picture shows up.
Kinoko
Hah, if it’s friendly then that’s all good!
I don’t post sunrise photos because I don’t get up *that* early, but I go running in the morning when I’m able. The online running community is also super positive and encouraging of each other, so the idea of someone hating on another person’s morning workout really bothers me because it’s been ingrained into me to be supportive.
deathjavu
Unless you’re going to bed at around 8 PM, going on a 4 AM run to start the day isn’t really that healthy Dorothy…
Bagge
But it’s productive!
Agemegos
What’s the usual time of year for high-school proms?
Norah
Late spring, usually. There are other dances, but the one called “prom” is usually sometime in May, or maybe early June.
Agemegos
Likely to be cancelled this year, then.
Delicious Taffy
Nothing of value will be lost, there.
BBCC
Depends on the year. I THINK mine was in April or May, but our school year went until June so it could be later.
All-Purpose Guru