QotD: Up All Night, Sleep All Day

When is the last time you stayed up all night?

I routinely am up until somewhere between 3 and 5 in the morning (it is 4:45 am as I am writing this).  So nothing special run or incriminating there.  My problem comes with the fact that I cannot go to sleep once it is light outside, I can barely sleep in once light has come (unless of course the room is totally shut off from all light, which mine no longer is). 

I think the most memorable up all night moment I have is from a few years ago when I was attending ITT Tech.  It was midterm time and I had a Visual Basic test the next day.  I started out by doing some last minute cramming, VB isn't really that difficult so I thought I could take it easy.  Then around bedtime I realized that I was going to have a fun insomnia night. Not fun when you have to be up between 4:45 and 5:00 am and he clock is already reading 12:00.  So I layed there in bed... awake.  1:00, 2:00, 2:30, 2:45, 2:53, ... I just couldn't get to sleep so I decided to give the books a little more attention.  Perhaps I could bore myself to sleep.  No go, I started reading and quizzing myself, and shockingly enough being exhausted is not helpful to the memory.  I was messing up left and right, forgetting simple bits of important code, all the good stuff.  Now I was tired, unable to sleep, and stressed out/worried.  Go me!  Back to bed 3:30, 4:00, 4:00, 4:30, 4:45, BUZZZ!! 

Long story slightly longer, I got to school and completely bombed the test.  But I wasn't alone, as it turns out the teaching didn't exactly cover the test so everyone was a bit dead in the water which lead to a second test a week later.    .