Ok, zombies will, eventually, become a real threat, and when that day comes we will all need to have an escape route. My plan is to arm myself in a light fashion in order to take the fastest and most secure route to a harbor, where I will find a boat. From there I will navigate my way to a remote island with enough wood and space for me too live for a while. I will also, of course, circle the island a couple of times and keep it under surveillance for a couple of days before "landing" there, in order to make sure it isn’t already inhabited by zombies. I will then make myself a home there, eating fish and whatever vegetables and plants that I find on the island. I will get water from rain and seawater that has been boiled and "cleaned" from salt.

After a year or so I figure that the zombies will have died from starvation, so then I will leave my haven on the island and return to the mainland. Before actually landing I will survey the shore in order too make sure that it doesn’t have any zombie infestation, and thus I will have survived the event. If the place still is infested I will just return to my island and come back later to check again.

Logically the zombies wouldn’t be able to swim or drive a boat. Perhaps they would be able to reach my island by walking on the seafloor, but I find this very unlikely as their lunges and stomach would fill up with water and eventually burst. Besides, why would they even try to get there, as they probably wouldn’t know that I was there?

It is my firm belief that an island really is the place to be during a sudden zombie infestation, because that is the one place they might not be able to reach. All other places is within their ability to get to, so if any place is safe then that would the island.

Besides the risk of starvation or death by thirst, and in some cases the risk of freezing to death, I really do not see any flaws in this plan once I reach the sea and find the secure island. But have I missed anything? And do you have a better suggestion?

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I’ve always been a total night owl. My last job never required me to be at work before 10:30am, which was perfect for me. I’d go to be sometime after midnight and be well rested. When I’ve had previous jobs that required me to be at work at 7:30 or 8:00 am, I’d still go to bed at midnight and usually catch a short nap after lunch.

The problem is that my new job requires me to leave the house by 6:30 am. I have been unsuccesfully trying to get to bed earlier for a month now. I am completely unable to fall asleep before midnight, and often it’s 1 or 2 am. It’s not like I have insomnia or an inability to sleep, because on weekends I’ll actually sleep 10 or 12 hours straight. I have no problem sleeping, it’s just that my sleep schedule seems to want to be about 1am until 10 am or so.

I’m usually so sleep deprived at work that I’m constantly in danger of nodding off. Plus I feel like a zombie. Sometimes I take a nap as soon as I get home, but lately I’ve been trying to aviod napping. I hoped that if I don’t let myself nap or sleep in on weekends, I’ll get so tired I can actually fall asleep before midnight. Trouble is, it doesn’t seem to be working. I’m exhausted, but I just can’t fall asleep until midnight. I really don’t want to take sleeping pills. I have enough trouble waking up in the mornings as it is, and I’m terrified I’m going to miss work one of these days. I actually set 4 alarms, and have managed to sleep through 3 of them. It’s so scary I’m considering adding a 5th one. I can sleep through even the loudest alarm in the morning. I’m sure I would sleep through a fire alarm, so hopefully we never have a fire

Any suggestions as to how to alter my natural sleep cycle to be more like normal people? My parents are always in bed by 9pm and have been that way their whole lives. Dunno where I came from…

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