Well, that's not true, I guess. I can't speak with much authority, but I'm pretty sure that raep, for instance, is far worse than insomnia. However, seeing as it's not in my nature to downplay negative situations, for now I will act as if insomnia is pretty much the worst thing on Earth.
For me it is, in a way. Being awake the whole night long is just so decidedly lonely. It's not like I often crave company in any way, but the stillness, the quiet, and the feeling that I'm completely and utterly alone just makes me very uncomfortable. It also doesn't help that I'm both paranoid, and obsessive, so that if any noise does happen to pierce the silence, I start to imagine what could have made it, and since I'm a pessimist (I prefer realist), the cause I think up is never very pleasant.
That was an incredibly long sentence. You'll have to bear with me on that, I do it very often. As far as I see it, a sentence can never have enough clauses! I tend to be verbose and repetitive, although I'll admit to having a very poor vocabulary. Some might disagree with that as I use a more formal tone than most, but that's geneerally because thos people haven't read any respectable books, and don't quite know what English is.
A side note on the degradation of the English language: I've noticed a propensity for people these days to use "then" rather than "than", and it really, really annoys me. They're two completely different words! (Don't even get me started on aspostrophe usage or "to", "too" and "two")
I honestly cannot fathom how the majority of people passed high school English. Furthermore, if you are older than twenty and still seriously use "u" instead of "you", you should probably be shot, reapeatedly. It's not that difficult to use proper English. Stop raping the langauge, please!
Now where was I? Ah yes, insomnia. That subject is a little boring though, much like staying awake all through the night is. Although, it is nice seeing the sun rise (kind of, it's too cloudy today... That's better than swelteringly hot, I guess).
Not being able to sleep does give me time to read though. I'm almost finished with iWoz, written by Apple co-founder Stephen Wozniak. I use the term written a bit lightly, as he didn't do it alone, so it's difficult to tell how much is actually him writing.
Wozniak is a legend, and the only Apple co-founder that I like, and this book is incredibly interesting and entertaining (especially as I'm a computer engineering student), I might even go so far as to say that it is mildly inspirational. However, I do have a few issues with it. Wozniak states how he holds logic to be very dear to him, but there is little logic in the structure of the book and it tends to jump around in time quite frequently.
It's writing style is very conversational, which I actually like (it's not too different from how I write) although I think whoever called it a "gee-whiz" style was spot on with that description. Wozniak comes off as a shy, polite, oddly funny guy. The tone seems to portray him as humble, as do most of his anecdotes, however there seems to be a large amount of bragging going on. Every few pages we are explicitly reminded how clever he is, which is't too bad as I agree with him, but it tends to get a bit annoying. I can't say I blame him though.
Steve Jobs was/is always in the spotlight, and got most of the public recognition regarding Apple. Heck, his death got far more coverage that the death of the co-creator of the C programming language, Dennis Ritchie (a man infinitely more important than Jobs). So I can't really fault Woz for wanting the general public to know that he is the genius behind computers as we know them today.
All in all it is a very entertaining book though.
I think this post has gone on long enough for now, and I've completely forgotten what I wanted to say in the first place. Sleep depravation will do that to a person I guess...
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