09-21-2004, 01:42 AM
So thanks to my security job I am now officially nocturnal. I worked from 8pm to 8am overnight Sun-Mon and then slept from noon to midnight tonight...woke up shortly after midnight Tuesday and have been browsing online ever since. Don't ask what I'm doing about classes...six thousand beans a year and I don't go to class.
So I'm just wondering, is there anyone else out there who's more or less nocturnal? Anybody who wakes up at sunset and rolls on through the night? Just curious...I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes. After three days and night existing in darkness I actually had to put my sunglasses on when I sat down at the computer after waking up tonight :oops:
Even with all the complications, I actually derive a perverse sense of joy from being completely at odds with the rest of the working world. I like being on the "fringes" of the working population...the only time it becomes annoying is when somebody says "What day is it?" just because it would take five seconds to think for themselves and I think really hard and I honestly can't remember. In fact when I was typing my chronology at the beginning of my post I had to check my computer's clock to make sure it really was Monday night/Tuesday morning.
Even my taste in music has changed. When you live under the moon, the kind of music you might have otherwise considered suitable for hot sunny days, or rainy depressing days, or violent stormy days, or the other myriad metereological conditions on various days, becomes completely compromised given that from where I sit all night, I have to get up and open a door just to see what the weather is like. And you're always in a constant state of semi-alertness, a gentle reverie...there's no real highs or lows like normal, diurnal people feel on different days...so the music you'd find appropriate for various moods blends into the homogeny of perpetual blase passivity.
Anyway...just some unfocused babbling...anybody else in the house share my perspective?
"Hong Kong is present
Taipei awakes
All talk of circadian rhythm
I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache grey
Don't wake me with so much.
Daysleeper..." (Stipe)
So I'm just wondering, is there anyone else out there who's more or less nocturnal? Anybody who wakes up at sunset and rolls on through the night? Just curious...I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes. After three days and night existing in darkness I actually had to put my sunglasses on when I sat down at the computer after waking up tonight :oops:
Even with all the complications, I actually derive a perverse sense of joy from being completely at odds with the rest of the working world. I like being on the "fringes" of the working population...the only time it becomes annoying is when somebody says "What day is it?" just because it would take five seconds to think for themselves and I think really hard and I honestly can't remember. In fact when I was typing my chronology at the beginning of my post I had to check my computer's clock to make sure it really was Monday night/Tuesday morning.
Even my taste in music has changed. When you live under the moon, the kind of music you might have otherwise considered suitable for hot sunny days, or rainy depressing days, or violent stormy days, or the other myriad metereological conditions on various days, becomes completely compromised given that from where I sit all night, I have to get up and open a door just to see what the weather is like. And you're always in a constant state of semi-alertness, a gentle reverie...there's no real highs or lows like normal, diurnal people feel on different days...so the music you'd find appropriate for various moods blends into the homogeny of perpetual blase passivity.
Anyway...just some unfocused babbling...anybody else in the house share my perspective?
"Hong Kong is present
Taipei awakes
All talk of circadian rhythm
I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache grey
Don't wake me with so much.
Daysleeper..." (Stipe)