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I could never go back to a mandated 8-5 schedule, but one of the annoying parts of setting my own hours is the gradual creep toward nocturnalism that I repeatedly go through. Start waking up a little later, start staying up a little later until I'm rolling out of bed at 1 PM every day and turning in at 5 AM and experiencing symptoms of seasonal depression in the middle of March. Then I have to force myself to go to sleep early one night, which means either sacrificing several hours of a day off or losing several hours of work time so that I can reset my schedule. Anyway, I got my ass to sleep at midnight last night and managed to wake up at 9, and I forgot how lovely the early(ish) morning is.
I've always wished I could be one of those people who is up with the sun, but after almost 30 years of being alive, I have to face the fact that that's never going to be me. I can do normal work just about any time of the day (in fact, earlier is usually better if I've had enough sleep), but the creative juices rarely start flowing before 10PM so I depend heavily on those late night hours for work that is in any way...ya know, meaningful. Valuable to me in a non-monetary way. I actually aspired to a biphasic sleep cycle for a little while. I'd wake up around 7 or 8, get all my work done by 3 at the latest, then take a nap for several hours, wake up and make dinner and be creative, then go to sleep around 2AM. But that sucked for my sleep cycles and didn't work for very long. I'm not even going to get into how my ADHD medication throws this all off. Grumble.
I've always wished I could be one of those people who is up with the sun, but after almost 30 years of being alive, I have to face the fact that that's never going to be me. I can do normal work just about any time of the day (in fact, earlier is usually better if I've had enough sleep), but the creative juices rarely start flowing before 10PM so I depend heavily on those late night hours for work that is in any way...ya know, meaningful. Valuable to me in a non-monetary way. I actually aspired to a biphasic sleep cycle for a little while. I'd wake up around 7 or 8, get all my work done by 3 at the latest, then take a nap for several hours, wake up and make dinner and be creative, then go to sleep around 2AM. But that sucked for my sleep cycles and didn't work for very long. I'm not even going to get into how my ADHD medication throws this all off. Grumble.
