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[xp_tarot]

I believe I have found my limit on how long I can go on two to three hours of sleep a night before my body and my mutation are at odds. Seventeen days.

My body won, for anyone who might be curious.

Doug - I am -very- sorry about missing our breakfast date. I slept through my alarm clock, through Amanda waking up, through my morning class and am only just getting up and fully awake now.

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[x-forge.livejournal.com]

So that's... 34 to 51 hours in two and a half weeks? Wow. I can do that if I'm actually using my power constantly, but I haven't gone THAT long with it.

Amusing, you and Amanda have powers that cause insomnia, mine cures it. Heh.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

You want I should flip back through any morning classes and hash out some notes for you? I don't feel like I play around with the nifty bonus extras on my mutant powers enough.

What I need is a director's commentary, I think. I could walk around, and while I do stuff, you'd hear a couple guys in the background cracking jokes about how this scene was so different in the roughs and all the best parts got left on the cutting-room floor for the theatrical version.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

That would help, yes. I should be able to keep up, but notes never hurt.

I imagine Doug and Forge could probably work out a way to give you one of those web-cameras so you could do just that.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Possibly more, I was not keeping track.

The insomnia is not usually a problem for the first few days. After that, I start taking inadvertant naps after lunch. I need, it seems, less sleep, but not -no- sleep. From what Dr. MacTaggart says, it seems like I can survive on five hours of sleep a night on average, but that my sleep needs are erratic.

.. Actually, what she said was longer, but I am not sure I understood the rest. My mutation confuses me.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Interesting. According to the doctors, mine seems to mimic REM sleep to some extent. Although if I go too long without actual sleep, I don't get tired so much as start zoning out and losing focus. Ms. Blaire's the one who actually pointed it out, I think when I kind of tripped out in Music class she got the clue. Now part of my homework is to SLEEP. This is me grumbling.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Will do, then. I'll try to keep it down to one awful pun per paragraph. ;)

And that would be cool, but not as cool as just having it be part of my mutant power.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

From what I recall, mine mimics a serious mental disorder. I suppose seeing the future, accurate or not, could be called a break from reality, after all.

If you tell me that sleep is overrated, I shall be forced to mock you, and make comparisons to a certain blond I know who has stated the same thing.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

It would be -funny- to make a movie of your life with your dupes making commentary.

If you had a web camera, and the movie was on a computer, and you made a dupe, would ... it make two cameras and two movies? If you make a copy of something digital are they ectoplasmic digital things? How does that ...

Did I not say once that I was never thinking about your mutation ever again?

I can confirm that.

[x-empath.livejournal.com]

It looks an _awful lot_ like a disassociative break.

What in the bad old days used to be called schizophrenia.

*sighs* I have mind-scanned far too many mentally ill people. Not that Marie-Ange is mentally ill, because she's not, but the states she gets into remind me of it strongly.

Manuel

Re: I can confirm that.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I occasionally wonder, were I not precognitive, might I have one of those disorders?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

You play dirty, Mademoiselle Colbert.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Not at all. I just find the similar traits that all of the computer and machine people share to be amusing.

I don't think so.

[x-empath.livejournal.com]

But I'm the guy who had to take Psych twice.

Ask Hank or Moira or Madelyn one of the other doctors. They could probably tell you.

Manuel

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

It would. I should try that one of these days.

If I duped a web camera . . . I think it would depend. If it was a regular webcam, the second one would just be not plugged in and not working, but I'm pretty sure if I actually plugged it in then it would work. I mean, when I dupe and I'm wearing my watch, both watches work. If it was a wireless one, though, they'd both be transmitting on the same frequency . . . probably there'd be interference, or something.

And yeah, you did. I think you've said it more than once, actually. :)

Re: I don't think so.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I think I would rather not know.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I still want to know what happens if you dupe holding one of my images.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Well, we should do that, then. Quit making yourself too sleep-deprived to remember about it. :)

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

We should. And I am not sleep-deprived now..

Food deprived, but that is easily fixed.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Especially since I've had three dupes slaving away in the kitchen to make sure there's lunch for everybody. Skipping meals is just insensitive and unappreciative, and I may have to go find a dark corner to go sit in and moan about the horribleness of my life.

. . . Oh wait, hot roast beef sandwich and six-inch oatmeal-chocolate-chip cookies. All is well with the world again.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Are you quite sure you are not -seven- instead of seventeen?

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

That would be stealing 'Yana's gimmick. ;)

And hey, if enjoying a nice big cookie and a sandwich is childish, well, pass me the Underoos and sign me up for tee-ball, is all I have to say.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

What, wearing glasses?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

What are Underoos?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Thinking that sleep is over-rated and a waste of time.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Superhero underwear. Basically, brightly-colored briefs and a T-shirt with the appropriate emblem. I used to run around all the time when I was little in Superman Underoos and my mom's red towel.