Sleep?

Hmmm, my body is not liking the latter part of this second round of rotating shifts. And myself, I'm not liking it either.

As stated in the previous blog, the mids this time left me feeling quite spacy, airy, zombie-ish. I was... man, don't want to admit this... probably a threat to anyone on the road. I missed my exit going to work Thursday, almost pulled out in front of someone coming across the bridge after getting off of the exit on Friday evening (in my defense, it's a really hard place to see if people are coming), and blew straight through a 4-way stop Friday morning in Picayune (again in my defense, Picayune has the most random 4-way stops, and I usually don't take that road back to the apartment.). Needless to say, Saturday and Sunday I was overly pre-cautios when it came to driving.

I only got 3.5 hours of sleep Sunday morning so that I could meet Jessica in Meridian to help her pick out Christmas ornaments. The drive home was a not too bad; and once I met up with Jessica, my brain kicked back into normal mode. I was fine at that point and felt pretty good. In church, I began to feel a little groggy, but I made it to 10 o'clock that night before going to sleep.

I set the alarm for 10am but got up around 9:30am... solid 11 hours of sleep. The morning was bummed away with soaking in the bath, slowly getting ready for the day, and talking to Jane (Jan). We then went to DeKalb and Meridian.

I was getting sleepy around 9:30pm but started doing something and noticed it was nearly 12:30am before I stopped. "Well, this will help me out tomorrow night when I have to stay up in prep for Wednesday's mid shift," I thought. It was already thundering at that point, with the severe stuff not too far to the west of us. But I went to sleep... or attempted to sleep. After just lying there, I rolled over and noticed the living room light on. My mom was up; it was almost 2am. We both couldn't sleep and grabbed a bite to eat out of the kitchen. Just for kicks, we turned on the TV... Stephen Bowers was on, talking about a tornado warning for Kemper County. The sweet, little cell was moving right for us... but it weakened before it reached DeKalb, and the Mt. Nebo area was jipped of any severe stuff. So I went to bed... it's like 2:30am.

Woke up at.... 11am!! Oh my goodness!! I could not believe that I slept that long. And it hit me, my body is still very much in mid-shift mode, even after sleeping all through the previous night. Poo!

It is becoming irritating that I have no set sleep schedule. I have no set appetite as well. My body just floats through time and kind of goes with the flow, while my brain is like, "Hello, work with me please. Try to do things at the same time each day. It would make my life easier." It was an easy transition last time from night to day. I just hope it is the same this time. Boo to rotating shifts. Boo.