Straggler's Moon

Sorry for the almost two week gap between posts guys, but I've been really pressed for time lately. Because of my two jobs (one full time, the other casual), this week I clocked in 65 hours of work... and that doesn't include the 10+ hours of drive time it took to get to one of my jobs. It does include however, the three midnight shifts I did. I ended up working three 14 hour days in a row, which means I had only 4 hours sleep on those same night, followed straight after the next morning by 1 hour drives to work. Needless to say, I'm pretty buggered.




But the money's not too bad I guess. I should be getting a fair bit this pay week *hyuck hyuck hyuck*. I'm kind of scared and impressed at the same time by the fact that I was never really 'exhausted'. I mean sure, I was tired, but I was never in real danger of falling asleep while at work. I was especially grateful I never came close to nodding off while driving, which was my biggest fear leading up to this past week. Falling asleep for even a second while doing 110km/h down a motorway wouldn't go down too well, recent studies have shown.

My sleeping patterns have always been weird and I've often wondered if I'm an insomniac. I used to always wake up at least once a night, every night. My average is twice a night, but once a night is the absolute minimum. This might seem annoying, and hey, I thought it was too, but now I'm so used to it it doesn't even faze me. And then I read this article on the website Cracked. If you guys have never been there, you have to visit this site. It is the bomb. Funny as hell articles that are damn insightful and interesting. Many, many hours I've wasted on that site when I should have been researching for assignments and exams. But screw that, this was more fun.

Anyway, the article stated the whole notion of uninterrupted 8 hour segments of sleep is actually pretty recent. Humans were meant to wake up once or twice a night. As the article states,

"Before someone who wasn't Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, people in areas with more than eight hours of darkness usually slept in segments: three to five hours of sleep, an hour of wakefulness and then another three to five hour nap. The hour or so of awake time was used for quiet reflection, sex, smoking and pretty much everything except staring at the wall terrified of insomnia. In fact, this small window of consciousness was renowned as the best time for boning, as the tranquility between the first and second sleep was known as being uniquely suited to getting up to mischief with the person lying bored beside you."

So there you have it, it's normal. Thank God. But like I said, it no longer bothers me. In fact, you could say I've come to prefer it. I can get up in the middle of the night, get some water or whatever, or, as has happened a few times, I even listen to my iPod. Good stuff.

Anyway, that's it for now. Again, sorry for the lengthy gap and also for this kind of short post. Hopefully I'll think of something interesting to read soon. And I'll also try to catch up on reading your posts.

Godspeed.

Straggler's Moon

The Fratellis 

Here We Stand, 2008