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	<title>Psychotic Resumes &#187; Catching Zs</title>
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		<title>The Importance of&#8230; um&#8230; Sleep</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going into an interview with no memory, no sense of time or place, a bad mood, a sore body, and circles under your eyes isn't exactly starting on the right foot.  Skip the bar, pwn teh newbz later, and catch those missing Z's.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/2526946763/" target="_blank"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1280" style="border: 2px solid black; margin: 10px;" title="Sleeping Raccoon" src="http://www.psychoticresumes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sleepingraccoon.jpg" alt="Sleeping Raccoon" width="240" height="159" /></a>It can be so tempting to stay up late and, you know, slaughter newbs on Halo or work on your website or blog or hang out with your significant other at a bar somewhere until the late hours of the morning.</p>
<p>If you have an interview any time soon, though &#8211; <em>you might want to reconsider</em>.</p>
<p>Thanks to a cruel twist of fate, sleep actually plays <a title="Harvard Sleep Study" href="http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/benefits-of-sleep/learning-memory" target="_blank">a heavy role in our perception of the world</a> &#8211; <strong>including mood, sense of time and space, and worst of all: memory</strong>.  And these aren&#8217;t just temporary effects.  Skip one night of sleep and your ass is gonna be draggin&#8217; for days afterward.  What&#8217;s even worse &#8211; people who have been sleep deprived show the same sort of <a title="Squidoo - Sleep" href="http://www.squidoo.com/How-lack-of-sleep-effects-short-term-memory" target="_blank">muscle degredation as those who&#8217;ve overexerted their muscles in a workout</a>.</p>
<p>Going into an interview with no memory, no sense of time or place, a bad mood, a sore body, and circles under your eyes isn&#8217;t exactly starting on the right foot. <strong> Skip the bar, pwn teh newbz later, and catch those missing Z&#8217;s.</strong></p>
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