Time: 3:48am (press return). Miles has just left my house. Around 9pm tonight (yesterday) Annie checked out a car, and we picked up Miles and Zach (and KT) at KT’s house. On the way to Gustav’s, Miles started telling a story about his housemates which he was only able to finish by the time we left Gustav’s two hours later. We dropped KT off, and Miles suggested renting The Original Kings of Comedy, which we all watched at my house, and were greatly amused by. We had a great time, and were sad to see Miles go. Zach asked if he could crash here for the night, which we agreed to, and I said he could sleep in the middle bedroom (where our computers are set up) after I checked my email.
Now Zach is sleeping in the basement, and I’m still sitting at my computer because I have work to do. I knew this might happen, since Steve and I had a demo assigned to us at a meeting today, which is due tomorrow (today) at 9am (5 hours from now). But since Miles was only in town for one day, I decided to hang out with him and run the risk of coming home to a pile of work needing to be done.
Now I’m facing the same decision I faced so many times in college: With five hours until the project is due, is it better to work now and get three hours of sleep at the end, or sleep now and get up in three hours to do the work? Or is it better to post to KillingMachines and avoid the decision altogether?
I'm a 30-year-old 
It amazes me that you would take such a risk… You’re too new to the job to make a decision not to do work like that. No offense, or anything, but I’m surprised you didn’t get fired.Everything you do at that job right now directly reflects Steve since he recommended you so highly. Do you just not take it seriously? I don’t get it. This isn’t college, it’s the real world.Hope no one hates you in that company now… good luck :(
November 9th, 2001 at 3:41 pm
it was more like, Miles left and he sat down to do the work, rather than sleep. Still kinda dumb, but it’s not like be blew it off entirely…
November 9th, 2001 at 4:28 pm
i guess "not being around" the night before a demo counts as not blowing it off? waiting until 4am to be available to do some work?yes, miles was only in town for a little while, but the priorities you choose will be reflected back to you.some of us should try to take that to heart. (yes, myself included- since i put myself at risk recommending him so highly.)
November 9th, 2001 at 4:44 pm
The answer is a Mr. Coffee.You can sleep when you’re dead.
November 9th, 2001 at 10:08 pm
Hold on.If you knew you had work to do, and when it was due, and how much you had left to do, then how were you "taking a risk" that it would be there after you hung out with Miles?
November 9th, 2001 at 10:17 pm
it’s a risk because here in the real world–where you have to pay rent and there are other people depending on you–things don’t get done (LET ALONE _GET STARTED_) in the 3 hours before a demo’s supposed to go on.why? cause every project has an unknown extra amount of time it’ll take to completion, and cutting yourself so short is going to lead to failure, as it did here.i find these events personally very disturbing, because i’m the one who stayed home to do the work and i’m the one who spent his evening deflecting a lot of unkind sentiment away from scott (who i’m sure had a good time), and i defended his decisions and actions, and this is what it got me.all i can say is, next time i won’t be able to say "i’m sure he’ll get the work done" when he’s offline and unavailable.
November 11th, 2001 at 12:54 am