Time
Ever since I started my new job back in January of this year, I have noticed that time has been passing by at a much slower rate than before. Many of my friends know that I am a morning person. It would not matter what time I went to sleep, by 8:00am I would be awake and ready to start the day. As a result, I would normally be asleep by midnight. Over the course of the last few years, I’ve conditioned myself to stay up later than normal because the woman I lived with at the time was a night owl. Since we were so busy during the day attending class and going to work, the only time we had to ourselves was at night. With this new work schedule from 6:00pm - 2:00am, I find myself going to sleep and waking up the same day. My 24 hour days feel infinite. Every midnight I stare as the date on my watch switches to the next day. Since my body has been used to waking up every morning, I now end up sleeping for a maximum of 4 hours each day. Sometimes when I feel like I have not talked to a friend in days, the reality is that it has only been a few hours. My brain has lost it’s sense of time as I find it difficult to remember what I did the day before. It has gotten so bad that I had to revert back to documenting what I did each day in my day planner. My work schedule is going to be the death of me.
