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mithridates · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:21 pm Post subject: How knackered are you?

I work from 12 to 9 and after work I always have things to do on the computer: usually Cyworld, my board, this board, some other things here and there and suddenly it's 2am and time to get ready for bed. Then I wake up at 9 and do a little bit more before I leave the 'house' in...15 minutes. Six hours is okay but I've been doing that for some ten days straight and yesterday I was feeling just knackered, not so much in a physical way but I couldn't think straight and had to make an effort to not get irritated at even that smallest things.
So last night I got to bed at about 1:30, closed my eyes, decided I'd better check the alarm to make sure it was set, and it was 2:30... Surprised

I don't remember where that hour went, almost creepy in a way.
On the weekend I sleep even less though because the thought is "Hey, it's the weekend, I can sleep whenever I want. I can get up early, do some things, go back to sleep, it's no big deal..." but then I just end up waking up early and staying up.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

I hate that feeling of not enough sleep and not enough hours in the day to have 'downtime'.

I feel a need each evening to have at least 4 hours of being able to do whatever I want or I'm not happy.

VanIslander · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject:

"Knackered" means tired?
I first heard it when I visited New Zealand.
Now I think I understand the word.

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

Yep, I know where you are coming from.

I am definitely glad to be done with this 10 to 12 classes a day hagwon monkey business, and am looking forward to only 4 classes a day at my new job.

peemil · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Location: Koowoompa

I'm completely and utterly rooted.

I keep early hours and late nights. After the vacation, and this week I've had this cold that is heading straight for my chest- I am absolutely rooted. But you've got to soldier on.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I am always tired. My baby sleeps great at night, but I just can't really function on 6 or 7 hours of sleep...

When I was little, my mum would smack my mouth whenever I said knackered because apparently people used knackered to denote tiredness after sex... Shocked

Even now she finds it abhoring whenever I use the word in front of her.

My dad, on the other hand, said it all the time, and said that people who roughed it - i.e. people who worked in the coal mines, used the term all the time, he himself included...

hmmmm...

deetah · Joined: 14 Nov 2004

My slave driver boss has a 6 day week schedual this month to make up for lost time over Seoual. I only have Sunday to recover from my work week Confused

Today I am feeling especially zombie like. The shitty, rainy weather isn't exactly helping things either.

Like the previous poster said, if I don't have 4 hours a night of doing nothing (eg watching TV, reading, jogging) I feel inhuman. I think it's the introvert in me raising its ugly head.

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

I'm flat out like a lizard drinking. Since I started back early January, I haven't had many spare moments to fart around on these boards. That says a lot. I've just finished the last five of a 20 week pre-enrolment course. I'm finishing a two week entry course for new uni students next week, but then I've got to start a study tour for Japanese students from Naruta U. as soon as that's finished. That's two weeks, then i get a week off before another 20 week pre-enrolment course. Can't wait. I'm totally shagged. Compared to the shiddy split shifts I endured in Korea for years though, this is easy. At least I don't work until 10 o' bloody clock every night of the week like I did over there. I can cope with anything after that. Funny how people here grizzle at having to do three hours teaching a day. All I gotts ta do is think of my five large a month and I find my happy place. Smile

TGIF. Have a good one boys and girls.

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004

deetah you getting overtime to make up those classes?

Tell your boss to stuff it.

What is so wrong with giving a discount to parents on a month where they have a big holiday(Solel, Chuseok)

But noooo gotta keep the cash flowing in and the waygookin chained in a class

sorry but just had to rant a bit

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

I work from around 07:30 till 19:00, with an early escape on Saturdays, sometimes before 16:00. Yep, I get tired. Even knackered.

BTW, I believe "knackered" refers to the "Knackers' Yard" - where horses used to be topped. In Cockney rhyming slang this became "crackered" - from Cream Cracker - and hence one can simply say "I'm Jacob'd" Confused

Edit: hahahaha!! the *beep* was the word Koknee ...

Zenpickle · Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Location: Anyang -- Bisan

Ah, Mith. The commitment of running a web site that is gaining in popularity will make you "knackered."

When I was producing a radio show and running a popular political web site, I would be working straight from 7 AM to 1 AM, barely leaving my workstation for meals.

Got burned out.

mithridates · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject:

Oh...7am to 1am is a bit much. Surprised

My site's not quite self-sufficient so I spend a lot of time telling people on Cyworld about it. They're also not used to php and a lot of them just write messages to me like they do on Cyworld, when they should be talking amongst themselves. Once they get the hang of it I shouldn't need to take so much time promoting it.
My brother used to have a radio show from 2~6 am playing ambient music and trip-hop. That was quite the show.

Pyongshin Sangja · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!

I'm fine. Old before your time, boys.

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

No. Just tired.

OK. Yes.