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Staying up all night is a form of civil disobedience

By Mishana Hosseinioun

June 19, 2005

Staying up all night is a form of civil disobedience. I didn't know it until I gave it a try in this chair by the window. I thought I'd outsmart Julius while I was at it, and seize both the day and the night. By 2:02 I really felt like an activist; by 4:49 I was practically verging on anarchism. By 6:15, I figured I would likely emerge as the next Dalai Lama. (No wonder they want us sleeping).

I got to watch the sky undress, just as it assumed the rest of us had our eyes closed. I caught the moon with its pants down, and the sun, red-handed, but not before witnessing the yawning clouds taking a piss on our front lawns, then skirting along-at which point the birds seemed to yell out something that sounded like "get off my property!"

But it is nearing the time I would normally wake up. So I will get up off my seat now and move onto a bowl of cereal and on with my life. Besides, it's Fathers' Day and as a daughter I never was the rebellious type.

Mishana Hosseinioun is the Program Director of International Convention on Human Rights (ICHR), a non-profit dedicated to drafting a legally enforceable international human rights document. She is a longstanding intern in Mayor Gavin Newsom's office in San Francisco and a recent graduate of Rhetoric and Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Email Mishana at Mishana@ichr.org

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