Tick Tock goes the body clock.  The way its supposed to work is, u have a schedule, your biology adapts to that schedule.  After a while u don’t need an alarm clock.  u sleep and wake up, look over at the clock and its like 5 min before the alarm goes off.

(insert normal daily routine, fast forward to bedtime)

Now at your normal time your body (brain) naturally takes a chill pill and drops out of impulse drive (u spent your day at various numbers of warp drive!) and sleep happens without much effort.  The thing is so effective that if u stay up past your “normal bedtime” u may fall asleep almost on your feet. without wanting to. yawn.

Now lets take a visit to my sick and twisted schedule.  First there’s the days of work:  2 on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 3 off. repeat.  btw 12 hour shifts.  add a good sized dose of commute, 60 minutes.  top off with night shift, 6 pm to 6 am.  So basically the days i work i have a 14 hour plus work commitment. Overnight.  now i don’t mind the overnight thing, my ‘natural’ awake time.

and i have sort of adapted to it. but there r complications.  like i like to sleep with my wife when on my days off.  so i try to just nap when i get home around 7am after my work instead of ‘regular sleep’. just a few hours on the couch and then theoretically when we go to bed i sleep at night instead of work at night.  Sometimes it works.

and other times my body just naps and i wake up at say 12:35 am and the body is telling me – “hey why r u in bed, its the middle of the day?”  I can force it back to sleep by staying in bed until boredom shuts off the mind, but that can take hours and i risk waking up my lovely normal schedule wife with my tossing around.

so usually i get up, and now i can blog in the wee hours when in theory i should b sawing virtual wood.  zzzzzzzzzz  zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz

this may b shaving years off my life.  really hope not.

p.s.  –  I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS SORT OF SCHEDULE TO ANYONE

thanks for listening, i feel a little better.