ThinkMoregooD

3am-noon: Those are the hours I’ve been working for the past few days and will be working through the month of February. These are a few of the mental notes I’ve taken during the transition to the new shift:

- My sleep schedule hasn’t just changed; it’s been eliminated altogether. I have no circadian rhythm to speak of at this point. I’ve slept at almost all hours of the day within the past week. There’s no specific time I make sure I am in bed by. I don’t track the amount of hours I sleep in a day. Put simply, when I’m tired, I sleep…

- Ditto for my eating schedule. The sun no longer dictates the traditional meals of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack. In the last week I’ve woken up at 9pm and eaten cereal, I’ve eaten chicken and broccoli at 7am during my “lunch break” at work, and I’ve eaten pre-sleep midnight snack type food around 1pm following a long day at work. My eating schedule, like my sleeping schedule, has become elementary. When I’m hungry, I eat… and I eat whatever I feel like at the time.

- Keeping track of the days is slightly more difficult when you’re not waking up at the beginning of a day and sleeping at the end of it. It is unusual to think that on multiple occasions I have woken up to Conan O’Brien and The Late Show with David Letterman, and then gone to sleep after the following day’s daytime programming is well underway. The start of my day is not the start of the day… That’s what throws me off from time to time.