"I'll be done in 2 hours". Yeeeeeep, right. If anything, life taught me that things take approximately twice as much time as I expect :3

Exactly. Nowadays I always say a day or days in advance because I know this happens.

I swear, there has to be a name for this besides procrastination.

Sanae-san's tablet PC was screaming from the volume of data in it, so she lamented, "I should have gone home and done this on my PC there."

By the way, the inside of our car was packed solid with that stock. :-)

I think similar bedlam was unfolding all over Tokyo on this day. (^^;)

Reader-added tags include "X Horse & Carrot, O Kogasa & Chinese dress", "Onbashira headband" and "I'll risk my life for Chinese dresses".

The survey looks for kindred spirits:

How long do you hold out at times like this?
• 'Til 5:00 a.m.
• 'Til 6:00 a.m.
• 'Til 7:00 a.m.
• 'Til it's done
• I give up

Moonspeaker said:
How long have do you hold out at times like this?

'Til 6 a.m. - "times like this" come twice a year, when uni exams start. Also, late at night is miraculously productive, so I'm usually left with a whole hour or so to sleep :3

At the very least, Sanaewife can take a rest in the end
and Kogasa will get an eyeful of Sanae, happy ending!!

Mizuki-san said:
How long do you hold out at times like this?
• I give up

Eeyup

The survey asks:
How long do you hold out at times like this?
• 'Til it's done

Been there, done that. I ended up finishing at 4 a.m., but work starts at 8 in the morning. Ended up with a headache for the rest of the week.

So Kogasauthor will do anything for China dress
Not that I disagree with him though

I've actually found that I do better if I sleep for two hours. I don't know why, but that can get me through a whole second day, although I'll crash and sleep ten or more hours at the end, and I won't be much fun to be around that day.

thenightsshadow said:
I swear, there has to be a name for this besides procrastination.

Perfectionism ?

BadRoad said:
I've actually found that I do better if I sleep for two hours. I don't know why, but that can get me through a whole second day, although I'll crash and sleep ten or more hours at the end, and I won't be much fun to be around that day.

If I remember correctly, sleep goes in two-hour cycles, that's why that's the bare minimum if you don't want to wake up looking like a zombie.
I usually go for three hours or no sleep at all, but once I went four days without sleep and stimulants.

Ahh... the last ditch rush...
Good memories... oh, who am I kidding.

As an aside, did you know the human body only need one hour of actual sleep a day to function in near peak condition?
This is why the whole 'power nap' thing actually appears to work.
I've done it several day in a row (4), I crashed and burned for a solid 24 afterwards...

edit: Hadn't seen ThunderBird's comment when I posted this, so mine wasn't a challenge.

• 'Til it's done

Blow through the point of no more tiredness, and you reach that stage where all higher rational and creative thought is dead. No more distractions, just pure, mechanical motion. I do some of my most efficient work in the frothing-mouthed state of sheer delirium the night before the deadline.

All it costs you is a 20-hour crash coma after you report it in.

Moonspeaker said:
How long have do you hold out at times like this?

'Til it's done.

Job's call. Once I did like straight from 9 AM day 1 till 12 PM day 3. Went to hospital for liver diseases. Will never do that again, ever.. At most, until day 2 and rest.

Kogasa-san will do anything for China dress Sanae-san, won't she? Hopefully she wont' come up with a convenient excuse like last time (last time was when she lost too much weight, and the dress didn't fit her correctly, right?). Don't go too fast, Kogasa-san; can't enjoy a China dress if you're dead!

For the poll, 'Til it's done. I stayed up for days while I was at uni. Even now, if I have a lot of work to do at my job, I'll keep at it until I'm done, even if I end up working twelve straight hours or more.

Ahh the power of the China dress

• 'Til it's done

Unless the deadline comes first, of course.

Mizuki-san asks:
How long do you hold out at times like this?
• 'Til it's done

Since going to sleep at 4-6 am and having only 2-4 hours of sleep is a regular thing for me (no coffee, nothing) I have no problem burning the midnight fuel.

It's important to get one or two small naps for near peak productivity though - less than 15 minutes is best because it's before sleep inertia occurs.

Yup, 'til it's done. If you've ever had a 26 hour shift in a sheet metal shop... it gets interesting...

• 'Til it's done

I'm glad that my school actually kept its labs open for students 24 hours so we could finish our 3D assignments. I would never have graduated.

thenightsshadow said:
I swear, there has to be a name for this besides procrastination.

I believe you're thinking of Hofstadter's law - "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

The wait has its benefits, though they were the 2 longest hours of history -_-

Admirable and Encouraging dedication to commitment,work and familiy.