Ah, good old 3am. The perfect time to answer questions like: is this yogurt I left out all day still edible? The packet says up to six hours, it’s almost certainly been at least 24, but I’m bored and on first taste it’s not absolutely rancid. Some might call it stupidity, I’d call it sustainability. By the end of this column, I’ll probably have found out who’s right.
I’m on something of a streak of sleepless nights at the moment. That’s not to say I’ve had no sleep. No, the moment I want to do anything like go to dinner, or write an essay, I’m out like a light on literally any available surface. Why sleep in a comfortable ergonomic bed, when there’s a perfectly awkward chair on offer? These inconvenient naps have provided at least four hours of sleep over the past couple of days. Who could ask for more?
This additional time spent awake has not gone to waste. I might be a mess but my room isn’t. I did my laundry (yes, I’m back in accommodation where the laundry runs all night), folded everything, took out the bins and hoovered. I changed my bedding, put everything away – yes, mum, actually away, I didn’t just pile it up so it looks better – and charged all my portable chargers so they might not be dead the next time I need them.
I also figured out why college seems to be under the impression I haven’t been making my battels payments. Turns out, when my banking app updated and cut off the names on my saved payee accounts, I started sending money to the University College Ball account, rather than the Accommodation Team. How no one noticed that the ball fund was looking particularly healthy is a mystery to me.
As much as I know everything is slowly falling apart, I feel pretty put together. Sure, I can’t focus my eyes to do my reading and I have the attention span of a toddler, but with enough concealer I think I might just be able to fool everyone into thinking I’m okay. When I do eventually crash and burn, I can only hope it’s in a bed and not on the floor.
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