elfs | Is exhaustion a kind of self-medication? (Reply)

Is exhaustion a kind of self-medication? I have noticed that when I don't feel well, when I'm tired, when I've been up far past my bedtime, I'm suddenly very productive. It's as if the part of my brain that does the "Ooh, shiny!" distraction gets shut down, and I can do lots of good things. Despite my general run-downedness, I was incredibly productive at work today, solving several major problems with inset floating DIVs and the auto-scroll handler for displaying trees of data.

It's very strange.