Need Pillow, STAT

Today's post is brought to you by the letter S.

As in, Shit, Science Seriously Sucks.

I've been doing the time course experiment from hell, and have gotten a whopping total of less than 6 hours of sleep over the past 4 nights, all of which has come through dozing off on the couch in spurts of less than 30 minutes. I haven't seen my bed since Sunday, and I am grumpy, miserable, and have a raging headache because my schedule is so screwed up that I can't take my anti-migraine meds at the appropriate times in my sleep schedule -- wait, what sleep schedule?

Three valuable lessons I have discovered:
1) Calories consumed in the laboratory between the hours of 10pm and 6am don't count. Eating around the clock keeps you awake, but it totally doesn't count against your daily calorie quotia. That entire mega bag of peanut m&ms I ate yesterday morning/last night/whatever the hell day that was? Zero calories!
2) If you don't actually make it into your bed, it doesn't count as a day/night cycle. Society dictates that you should shower once per day/night cycle, but if five days have extended into one, you are not obligated to shower, as you never actually made it into bed. And I managed to shower twice in my very extended single day, so it's like I'm squeaky clean!
3) If, after 3 nights of sleep deprivation and misery, your PI discovers that you have been in the lab since 3am and asks why on earth you would do that because he FORGOT that just 3 days previously he assigned you the time course experiment from hell, it is justifiable homicide.

Last night, while I was walking home from lab at 10:45pm, I passed a big group of first year medical students (or maybe undergrads?) walking down the street in the direction of the bars. This morning at 3:15am while I was walking back to lab, I passed the same group retuning home from their night out.
My life officially sucks .