Showing posts with label sleep disorders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sleep disorders. Show all posts

Sunday, June 13, 2010

The Night Owl

I'm a night owl. I think I have a sleep disorder.

No, really. I think I do.

I think I have delayed sleep phase syndrome. When I read the Wiki article, I felt like someone had been spying on me all of my life and then wrote this article.

I thought it was a joke at first. But, that's really an accurate description of me. I have all the challenges and emotions in that article. And the problem started when I was in middle school. I just started staying up and couldn't go to sleep one summer. And that become natural to me.

Dude! I'm living in the wrong time zone!

The problem with this disorder is that if I had trouble taking it seriously and I have it . . . who else will take it seriously?

Not my employer on my dreaded 8 to 5 job.

Honestly, I really, really, really like (not quite love, just like) my job.

I hate mornings. Mornings is what makes my job "dreaded".

I wish I worked at nights, could sleep all day, and run around town in the evenings before and after work.

If I could work from 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM every day, I'd be in hog heaven!

My struggle with my coffee addiction doesn't help one bit. Coffee just makes the vicious cycle worse. Lately I've drank tea in place of coffee. I get by, but man-oh-man do I miss grinding coffee beans and slipping on that rich, hot, fresh coffee with sugar and creme and . . .

OK, I'd better quit that.

Hell, my coffee deprivation runs deep enough to where I'll drink grocery store brand instant coffee at this point!