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Y'all might know by now that when I'm working, I work night shift. Let me say right up front, yes, this is a choice I make, so that I can accommodate my various little frailties and still work enough hours to qualify for benefits most of the time. So, yes, the burden of accommodating the inconveniences of working nights is on me, I understand that.
That said, I have a new thing to work out. ( In which I go into some detail, both to set the scene and to present what I've already got as my night shift accommodation program. )
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two hours, and i can leave for home.
have errands between leaving for home and actually getting to bed, but no work tonight or tomorrow night.
was going to write about my frustrations with my schedule, sleep, etc. but why bother? night shift is my choice; renting a room from friends is my choice. in this economy, i'm grateful to have a job that's safe, steady, and satisfying.
so, will just look forward to weekend! who knows? i might get my fall vegie seeds in, some cleaning done- i might even write!
and y'all? weekend plans?
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half five in the am, and it's 71 degrees outside.
was i bad?
*sigh*
if i lived 10 blocks from the beach...
well, anyway. so much for my night off, sleeping when it's cool and quiet and dark...
otoh, i've had some spectacular doze-dreams in the 10 minutes of sleep i've had from time to time.
/whining. at least we have songbirds. and sunrise isn't at 5am.
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| 2009-05-08 12:55 |
| Friday, Friday |
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| amazon, car, despair work, economics, fun, hope, peace-work, sleep, star trek, uni |
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The good news: my Facebook Cause, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is gaining members. You can be one!
The Happiness Project.
I managed to get the car to the mechanic's without its either blowing up or falling to pieces on the freeway. We'll find out what we find out, eh? It's an '88 Volvo wagon- I'm sure it's got a few miles left on it, if it can just find them.
Ah, what the hell. It's all good news, isn't it? The only thing is, I won't be seeing Star Trek today at 1:30, so that's $8.00 I'm considering donated to the cause of Hunter Urban's college fund. Just something to look forward to then, innit? Bones McCoy, I'm on my way.
Alrighty then. Since I can't ship any books, go to Star Trek, or stay up any longer, and I am graduating AND raising money for my Cause, I think I'll get some zzzzzs. Yay for nights off!
And blessings on your heads, y'all. Each and every one of you.
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i work nights, sleep days.
it's hot this week.
thank goodness, this is my night off.
finally, under 60 degrees and falling.
i may sleep until noon, at this rate
enjoying the dark
and the quiet.
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ok. 8 weeks- no, 7 weeks, i think, of uni left. *whew*
class let out early today, so had the hip x-rays done. should find out within a week what's next, and if they show what's hurting. added fish oil and chondroitin/glucosamine/msm (which i now recall helping me with my knees some long years ago) (and thanks to ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) stormatdusk who reminded me of them), so we'll see.
in the meantime, the same-old same-old- work, uni, trying to get enough sleep. which i'm gonna go try and do right now. xoxo until later.
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MIA a bit because of reading for uni, and fighting off a sinus infection with sleep, hydration, nutrition, and Zicam. damn viruses.
however. by my count, 8 weeks of uni left, and the two papers for Critical Thinking (which, it seems, will just need to wait until i have two well-rested, not-arrogant brain cells to rub together), and, all other things being equal, i'll be able to graduate.
and then it's just all about getting healthy, as best i can. even better nutrition. appropriate exercise, as much as i can fit in around work and sleep. saving money, to cut down worry over travel and getting older. writing! oh, writing, and beading, and gardening! and sewing! and reading for fun!
so i DO have a plan. but for today, it's probably to finish work, go home, rinse my sinuses, have a nice hot bath, rinse my sinuses again, take my meds, and curl up in bed with the laptop and my uni reading until i crash.
and if I wake up in time and feel rested enough, catch the late (8:20 pm) show of Appaloosa before work at the lad's house tonight.
and that's the news from here. how are all y'all?
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nearly caught up on sleep, and guess what? i can read my textbooks, they make sense, and i can take notes. amazing.
heading home in half an hour. two nights off; two chapters yet to read in native american studies (and NOT looking forward to getting the midterm back) and two for chicano/latino film studies. cautiously optimistic about that midterm.
catch you on the flip side.
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well.
no, not in the debates- though i hear that Mr. McCain did not comport himself as well as one would expect.
but in myself. did NOT do well with the midterm for Native American studies class. partly because i'm just exhausted- i swear, if i don't get 8-10 hours straight, deep sleep within the next 24, i'm just gonna be a big bawling ball of baby- and partly because i didn't have the same rigorous kind of review that the film review forced on me in my other class.
so i think what i need to do is type up my notes within 24 hours of that class, and cross-ref them with the book Right Then. this poor class gets the short end of my energy and attention, and it's not fair to the class, to the teacher, or to me.
i now return you to your regular lives. i'll be here at work, trying to read coursework.
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I have a new tentative plan.
Since Monday and Thursday seem to be "lost days", in that I can either stay up Monday morning, but then lose sleep and study time, or go to bed Monday as soon as I get home, but lose on-line time and, if I'm woken up before getting at least 6 hours sleep, lose sleep too- and Thursday seems to work out more-or-less the same, except that I'm even more tired Thursday mornings than Monday mornings- anyway, since they seem to be "lost days" I'm thinking to "take them out of the week" for expectation-of-socializing-and-getting-things-done purposes.
Instead, I'll count them as "doing things in bits and pieces" days, with sleep and study interspersed as is possible. Give this a month or so, see how it works.
Hell, the semester's only got 12 more weeks in it.
And then on Tuesday nights, like tonight, or, I guess, Early Wednesday Morning (tm), if I can't sleep, I'll put laptop and cord, portable heater, and school-book/notes in my cloth grocery bag and, in slippers and robe, trundle downstairs to the kitchen table and set up down there where there's space and light and study there instead of trying to do it in bed (not enough space for papers, etc.) or at my poor desk (which is, at the moment, not usable due to the amount of stuff being sorted on and in front of it).
*sigh*. how can 6 units of uni and 40 hours of work be so damn complicated? is it really this messy to live mostly in one rented room and get things done? Or am I even more dramatic than I've been accused of by my family? tune in next week (though I doubt there will be any real answers... lol!!)
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5 hours broken once is not the same as 10 unbroken, but by God it works well enough to carry on with.
I would have made not such a good watch-standing sailor here in my middle-age. *sigh* *laugh*.
SO. off now to fee the household's cat, stop at the market and get greens and pita bread, buy gas, and head off to the lad's house. Have schoolbooks and study stuff packed and ready.
Catch you on the flipside.
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| 2008-08-25 09:28 |
| hot. hot hot. PSA: brought to you by the letters TSSSSSSSssssss~~~~~ |
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| friends, sleep, uni, weather |
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supposed to be up in the high 80s, low 90s here this week.
of course, uni starts this week too.
and am trying to finish the big (interrupted by head last time) room re-arranging/junk-sorting project.
so if there is EVEN LESS slashfairy to go around, or if the slashfairy you encounter seems even MORE distracted and befuddled than usual, please douse her with some cool water (mind the textbooks and laptop, ta) and see that the note pinned to her shirt is legible, will you?
thanks ever so.
/PSA
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| 2008-03-18 17:00 |
| Mac-age, etc., etc. |
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| Ave Dei patris filia/Thomas Tallis/Peter Phillips & The Tallis Scholars |
| computer, family, sleep, uni, work |
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So, the big mac [of the sagas of last year- yeah, that one] is in the shop for a coupla days to get cleaned up, upgraded [to Leopard- what I've seen of it on the babyMac I like] and have an external hard drive formatted for it/them [final-fucking-ly. Lord, it's nice not to be pay-check to pay-check and picking up pennies in the parking lot just to mail my time-sheets in so I can get paid].
Uni hops along: midterm in PoliSci Thurs. [keep wanting to type 'thrus', and what's that about, hmm?] and paper diagramming an extended argument of 200+ words due in Critical Thinking on the Tues. after spring break.
Spring Break! Not from work, but enough that I can go to San Francisco and visit my son for a few days- go to Meeting with him [he's a member of Quaker Meeting, though he wasn't brought up in it] and maybe meeting, too- I'm not a big one for going to AA every week, but he is, and it does help each of us remember why we choose to be sober, so maybe [if I'm not just too freakin' tired] I'll go with him to his.
And maybe to the Asian Art Museum, or someplace fun- I've got 'til noonish Tues. before I need to hop the bus home and get ready for work [nap, visit, etc.].
And that's more or less the news from here. What a difference a year makes.
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a) I voted.
b) I have read my studies for the day's courses.
c) I have double-dug in my compost! [have been taking the kitchen scraps, veg/fruit only except for washed egg-shells, out to compost in 15-gal buckets- works pretty well- a layer of kitchen scraps with a layer of leaves/dead nasturtium vines/grass cuttings- the worms found the buckets and had gotten going in them!] My five buckets were full, so it seemed prudent, since yesterday was pretty much dry, and today's dry and sunny, to go out, double-dig, layer it in, and let it start working!
d) now that i've done all that [had time today because my Gov't class was canceled], it's nap time. See you when I see you. xoxo
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Two ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) slashababy 2007 stories, each with some Elijah in them, so happy [now belated] birthday, Elijah:
In the days when all was new and we were made new, too. for waqaychay, a hobbitpile with smut; Always good to see you, a DomLijah for trianne; and a 3_ships story for cinaed in the Firefly/Serenity 'verse: Alive and Kicking.
Uni starts today. Am looking forward to it, and not. Sadly, sleep these days [with the exception of two glorious days last week of 8+ hours] seems to be three hour naps punctuated by a half-hour of getting up to pee, check email, make quickie posts, and go back to bed; this alternated with the occasional day that allows several hours online at a time with more like 6 hours sleep at a time- but I can't predict which day's going to be which, which is frustrating as hell. Things are underway to deal with this a bit better, but that'll probably take a few weeks.
Passed on from : A Violation of both the Law and the Spirit about vandalism at poet Robert Frost's house. What landmarks, or historic sites, or areas/sites that are being preserved, or should be preserved, are in your area? Do you know? do they matter to you? what have you done or would you do to identify/preserve them? [yes, I'll do mine, but not today. back to bed, right now.]
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done.
i just spent 6 hours washing redwood walls with vinegar water and then vacuuming them- over and over, to get the wood to let go of the dust it's inhaled over the years.
i was only in these rooms for a year, but it's been at least 6 since anyone actually fed the walls and really cleaned them.
they glow.
the floor i couldn't do as much with, because it's SO thirsty- but i did vac and wash, vac and wash, then wiped the whole thing down with an olive-oil based furniture polish.
it glows too.
I had henryM on repeat for my cleaning music- what a ball that was, cleaning to HenryM's playlist.
lord i'm tired but i'm so satisfied.
catch y'all after some sleepynice resting time.
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