Tomorrow afternoon, Denny and I are heading out for the annual, 50-consecutive-hour trivia contest based at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.

I personally do not stay up for 50 hours.  I don’t think anybody actually does.  Technically we’re supposed to sleep in shifts, but I’m not very good at sleeping under less-than-ideal circumstances, so I just go to bed when I’m tired.

Denny is more hardcore.  I admire him for it, yet not enough to actually do it to that extent.

Anyway, I’ll be online a lot over the weekend, because the way the contest works is a question is read (via radio station or internet streaming audio), you research the answer, and then call in.  Very rarely does anyone know an answer off the top of his/her head; it’s really a contest of research skills and persistence about getting through busy signals on the phones.

I personally prefer to research.  Talking on the phone gives me anxiety attacks (not in the clinical sense, but I do hate it).  Just now I had to make some cold calls for work; we’re doing faculty interviews about their experiences using our technologies, and I got all sweaty.  I am happier if it’s just me and a computer screen.  And, you know, a houseful of people hopped up on caffeine and good cooking, and possibly wearing leather pants.

I’m looking at you, Lance.