You saw my post from a week or so ago.<\/a> Sleep, or lack thereof, can be a plague on one’s good attitude and overall productivity. I don’t think I get cranky, but I start doing strange things.<\/p>\nMy first month here, I took a trip off base in the evening. I didn’t sleep all day, then went out to dinner in downtown Doha with friends. It was a fun time out but I didn’t sleep between one day’s work and the next.<\/p>\n
I thought I was fine. I distinctly remember thinking how resilient I was considering my lack of sleep. The weather was keeping my adrenaline up, I recall. At about 4am I went out to the latrine trailer. Where I work, we have to leave our building and walk out to a row of latrine trailers outside. Not far, probably a 1 minute walk. Picture three construction office trailer-looking buildings…all in a row. Don’t fret, they aren’t bad. The leftmost and center trailers are for the men, the right hand trailer is for the women (since women are probably less than 20% of the population here, we have a pretty good deal).<\/p>\n
I walked into the trailer, chose a toilet, and proceeded to do my thing. While I’m in the stall, I notice that the walls are black — when I’m used to them being off-white — and I began to ponder:<\/p>\n
“When did they paint the insides of the toilet stalls?”<\/p>\n
“WHY would they paint the insides of the toilet stalls?”<\/p>\n
“And how come I can’t smell the fresh paint of these newly painted stalls?”<\/p>\n
“Wait a minute! How did these paint flecks and scrapes appear on these walls covered in non-smelling, newly applied black paint?”<\/p>\n
I finished my business, flushed and walked to the opposite wall of the trailer to wash my hands. It’s at that moment that I noticed (a) the wall of urinals that I didn’t notice before and (b) the MAN standing in front of one of them!<\/p>\n
You guessed it — I had marched right into one of the mens’ latrines and did my thing. I guess on that day I was more tired than I thought.<\/p>\n
This was back in early February, before the insomnia fatigue had kicked in. So after that lack-of-sleep shift I remember going back to my dorm and sleeping straight through until I had to get up to work again.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned, maybe after tonight’s lack of sleep I’ll have a new “How Tired Were You?” story to share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Happy Friday and Happy Spring! Another random funny deployment story for you. So here it is…6:15pm on a Friday night, and I’m still awake. “Hey, me too! Let’s go hit a club and go dancing later!” No no no no no. I’m not supposed to be awake! 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