Sleep

For as much as I obsess about sleep, I'm surprised I haven't written pages and pages about it on here. I give heavy consideration to the sleep implications of anything I considering doing. I rank time spent sleeping with someone (literally sleeping with someone, no euphemism intended) as the ultimate in "quality time." If I like talking to you, chances are I've often bored you with conversations about my sleep. I hate my alarm clock more than Weezer fans love shitty music, and Weezer fans obviously LOVE shitty music.

Sleep is on my mind right now because my already bizarre sleep schedule is about to get weirder.

Saturday I woke up around 3pm for a tennis match after going to sleep at 10am. 5 hours. Sunday I woke up at 4pm after going to bed around 7am. 9 hours.

Now in spite of the poor night sleep on Saturday, you would probably think I'd feel well rested on Sunday afternoon. But you'd be very wrong. By 10pm I was seriously dragging, so I took a nap from 11pm to 2:30am. Now its about 6:30am on Monday morning and I'm sitting here eating a McDonald's sausage and egg biscuit and wondering when I'll be able go to sleep again after such a delightful nap.

While it is unconventional, being awake all night is convenient for me right now, because that is when I think the poker games are easiest. Any obligations I have (tennis, soccer, basketball teams) are usually in the early evening, so waking up in time for those hasn't been a problem. I do miss the Junkies though, who are on the air from 11am to 2pm.

I've always believed that one or both of the following are true about me:

A.) I require more sleep than most people, and keep some kind of cumulative sleep deficit record. 9 hours of sleep wasn't enough on Sunday because I only had 5 from the night before, and averaging 7 hours just isn't going to cut it for me. When I was working at GE, I would average about 7 hours of sleep on work nights, and then would routinely sleep for 11 or 12 hours on Friday and Saturday nights. I've also had times where I only slept 2 or 3 hours one night, and then slept for 10 or 12 hours the next 2 nights in a row. I think I tend to average out to about 9 hours per night over any given length of time, which is probaly 1 or 2 hours more than most people.

B.) My body's natural rhythm isn't a 24 hour day. I think I'd probably be more comfortable with a schedule that is more like 10 hours of sleep and then 18 hours awake. Alas, the earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours, so that is the schedule that almost every other living being on the planet uses. I'm always being oppressed by tyrannical systems.