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You can get a lot done, but because you're so sleepy, somebody has to do it all over again anyway, so you might as well sleep in.
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Only sleep when they want to. Only do anything when they want to. No one dares redo our work since it is always right no matter what.
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Caffeine Pills and Mountain Dew are great when you need to stay awake, be it for driving somewhere, staying up to study for a test, or who knows what.
Only problem is, eventually that need ends, and often you still have lots of caffeine in your system, keeping you up for even longer.
And even more, the entire time you still feel tired, just an awake-tired sort of trance.
There needs to be some kind of pill invented that will keep you awake like caffeine, but when you want to go to sleep, you take a second pill that de-activates the first pill.
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I think the fact that we can play music whenever we want due to the new innovations of technology (record players, tape players, cd's, mp3's, etc) is fantastic. I think it helps appreciation for music immensely, and I love being able to listen to music whenever I want. Also, it allows me to listen to far more different kinds of music and bands then I normally would be able to.
The one thing about it that makes me kind of sad is the fact that it somewhat cheapens the concert experiance. I would imagine that going to a concert used to be the only way to really hear music, so the experiance must have been something really special. The anticipation of going to a concert and the feeling during and afterwards must have been heightened moreso than today, where we can just pop on a cd and hear some music.
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Because I can just pop in a CD at any time and listen to some music, I don't have the same emotional response as I do when I see a performance live. There are so many combinations of place and time and situation that nothing really stands out. But when I go to a concert or a play, that's a finite set of associations, and very often a vastly different set of responses. And sometimes listening to a recording of that music later will evoke an echo of the original, but it's never exactly the same.
For example, in preparation for going to see Les Mis last week with my mother, because I had absolutely no idea what the show was about, I borrowed the soundtrack CD from my library and read the libretto while I listened. It helped me to figure out the story so I was not completely lost when I sat down in the theater. But there was virtually no emotional response to that recording. Seeing it live, actually SEEING the action during the barricade scene and the final scene, I was much more intimately affected - to the point of tears when Fantine and Eponine came on stage in the final scene. Now when I listen to the soundtrack, I remember how that felt, but I'm nowhere close to experiencing it again.
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A lot of times it's not the actual doing work that's so difficult. it's the getting yourself to sit down and actually start that's the hard part.
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