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The saga of the mole-man
Apr. 20th, 2013 03:23 amDuring the winter I do a lot of sleeping. It's more like, I wake up (on a weekend), and realize that whatever it may be that I'd like to do, it's just going to be too cold outside for, there will be snow and ice all over the place, it gets dark early in the day, or all of them combined. On days when I don't have to wake up at a normal hour, I won't. The only thing that keeps that in check is work. The week between Christmas and New Year's? I don't have work then, so guess what. Sleeping patterns: Destroyed.
This is similar to the "summer insomnia" I used to get as a child, when we would get summer vacations 3 months long. If I didn't have to wake up in the morning to go to school, I wasn't going to wake up, and that meant I wasn't going to sleep at 9-10 at night. Then eventually it was 3AM before I got tired enough to sleep. Sleeping pills did nothing. Sleeping patterns: Destroyed.
That kinda stuck with me over the years. The end result is that I gravitated more naturally to a night shift. When I enrolled in a tech school, I had the choice of classes that started at 7AM or classes that started at noon. I picked noon and supplemented that with a part-time job that had me getting home at 12AM or later. When I got my first real job, it was a 2nd shift position. Then because of a promotion I went to 1st shift for awhile, and then I got laid off. During my accidental vacation, it was a matter of days before I was staying up until dawn on a regular basis. At my current job, I was on 1st shift for about 5 1/2 years, then decided I wasn't getting what I wanted out of that shift and opted to go onto 2nd, where I remain. Sleeping patterns: Destroyed, reassembled, then (intentionally) destroyed again, lather rinse repeat.
It is unknown if I'll continue with that but odds are I will, and I would need a very good reason to go back to 1st shift. I didn't have a real social life while I was on days in the first place, so that's disqualified from being a real reason.
This is similar to the "summer insomnia" I used to get as a child, when we would get summer vacations 3 months long. If I didn't have to wake up in the morning to go to school, I wasn't going to wake up, and that meant I wasn't going to sleep at 9-10 at night. Then eventually it was 3AM before I got tired enough to sleep. Sleeping pills did nothing. Sleeping patterns: Destroyed.
That kinda stuck with me over the years. The end result is that I gravitated more naturally to a night shift. When I enrolled in a tech school, I had the choice of classes that started at 7AM or classes that started at noon. I picked noon and supplemented that with a part-time job that had me getting home at 12AM or later. When I got my first real job, it was a 2nd shift position. Then because of a promotion I went to 1st shift for awhile, and then I got laid off. During my accidental vacation, it was a matter of days before I was staying up until dawn on a regular basis. At my current job, I was on 1st shift for about 5 1/2 years, then decided I wasn't getting what I wanted out of that shift and opted to go onto 2nd, where I remain. Sleeping patterns: Destroyed, reassembled, then (intentionally) destroyed again, lather rinse repeat.
It is unknown if I'll continue with that but odds are I will, and I would need a very good reason to go back to 1st shift. I didn't have a real social life while I was on days in the first place, so that's disqualified from being a real reason.
