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cholten99 asked me if I would like some ice cream a little while ago, he said, "I'm mainly asking because it makes me feel less weird and random about having sweets at one in the morning". Which seems odd to me, partly because he didn't seem to find it strange to be eating chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream for breakfast this morning. Then again, I didn't find either case particularly random. The main reason for this is the whole 'artistic' bit. Writer, visual artists, musicians, code-monkeys -- the lot of them have a vaguely different set of 'rules', if you like, than most everybody else.
1) There are no such things as 'unsociable hours'.
Two a.m. ain't nothing but a number or, in some cases, an excuse to talk to your friends in other time zones.
2) There are no such things as 'meal times'.
Why should the clock dictate what you're going to eat when you don't pay attention to it anyway? Cereal at six p.m., cold pizza at six a.m., ice cream at 1 a.m.; frankly, who cares what you're eating or when you're eating it, so long as you are actually remembering to eat at all? (My favourite has always been and will always be lukewarm leftover Chinese takeaway at 3 a.m.)
3) There is no such thing as caffeine unfit for human consumption.
It will happen on occasion that you pour yourself a glass of cola or cup of coffee and then forget all about it for an hour or two as you get engrossed in your work. When you desperately need the caffeine, it does not matter that the coffee is stone cold or the cola is warm and flat. When you've been up all night with the project with no end in sight, you really aren't in it for the taste anyway.
4) There is no such thing as mess.
It's creative clutter, alright?
Go ahead and make additions, if you like.
cholten99 asked me if I would like some ice cream a little while ago, he said, "I'm mainly asking because it makes me feel less weird and random about having sweets at one in the morning". Which seems odd to me, partly because he didn't seem to find it strange to be eating chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream for breakfast this morning. Then again, I didn't find either case particularly random. The main reason for this is the whole 'artistic' bit. Writer, visual artists, musicians, code-monkeys -- the lot of them have a vaguely different set of 'rules', if you like, than most everybody else.1) There are no such things as 'unsociable hours'.
Two a.m. ain't nothing but a number or, in some cases, an excuse to talk to your friends in other time zones.
2) There are no such things as 'meal times'.
Why should the clock dictate what you're going to eat when you don't pay attention to it anyway? Cereal at six p.m., cold pizza at six a.m., ice cream at 1 a.m.; frankly, who cares what you're eating or when you're eating it, so long as you are actually remembering to eat at all? (My favourite has always been and will always be lukewarm leftover Chinese takeaway at 3 a.m.)
3) There is no such thing as caffeine unfit for human consumption.
It will happen on occasion that you pour yourself a glass of cola or cup of coffee and then forget all about it for an hour or two as you get engrossed in your work. When you desperately need the caffeine, it does not matter that the coffee is stone cold or the cola is warm and flat. When you've been up all night with the project with no end in sight, you really aren't in it for the taste anyway.
4) There is no such thing as mess.
It's creative clutter, alright?
Go ahead and make additions, if you like.
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Date: 2005-01-23 01:58 am (UTC)Addition: the only time handwriting is to be counted as 'bad' is when you can't read your own, or in the specific case when you're writing for someone else. Otherwise, all scribbles are valid.
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Date: 2005-01-23 10:18 am (UTC)'nuff said.
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Date: 2005-01-24 01:24 pm (UTC)2)I eat at the right times, I just don't eat the same sort of meals.
Midnight snack time does need adding though.
3)If the work doesn't keep you awake it is time to go to bed.
4)yes there is, just ask my girlfriend.