Lazy Day

Okay, so I wanted to make sure it wasn’t just a fluke, so I waited six weeks before posting about it…but yup, I’m sleeping in on Saturdays.

Some people are polyphasic because they don’t like sleep, or don’t have a good time of it — and for chunks of my life, I’ve been those people.  Certainly I was when I started all this.  But I don’t dislike sleep now — I’m just too busy to indulge in it any more than I need to, and I happen to know that my actual needs are less than what I need when I’m monophasic.  So I’m not.  Make sense?  Right.

But I actually enjoy sleeping now; I don’t have sleep disorders, and my dreams, while weird, aren’t awful.  (I had nothing but nightmares for years at one point.  The brain, she is mysterious.  ;)  And sleep is relaxing, and feels nice, up to a point.  So I started letting my schedule slip a little on weekends, and when I found myself writing my Saturday-morning-sleep-in-time into my Schedule, I realized that I intended to keep the habit around.

I don’t sleep longer than 6 hours, and usually what happens is I don’t feel like going to bed on time on Friday night, so I let myself stay up a bit and then just sleep until I want to get up in the morning.  Typically this means 2-8 a.m., or something like it.  I have trouble sleeping past 8 a.m. for some reason, no matter when I go to bed, so I actually max out my lazy-time by getting to bed by 2.  Then I take my naps like normal on Saturday (though, especially if I didn’t sleep that much Friday night, I’ll sometimes get lazy and stretch a nice nap out, too), and I get up early like normal on Sunday.

I have no trouble getting "back into the swing of things" on Monday.  And I suppose this means that yes, polyphasic schedules can accomodate this kind of behavior, but please (I find myself saying again), remember that I’ve been doing this a year and a half.  My schedule has gotten nice and flexible and comfy now, like leather shoes.  If you’re just starting out, or you’ve been at it less than six months, I seriously wouldn’t suggest things like "sleeping in".  You could end up having to re-adapt every week, and/or end up with a longer adaptation period, and that would be no fun.

On the other hand, I can’t express how giddy I am that I can sleep in for a day and not have any negative reaction, schedule-wise.  Talk about cool!  Best of both worlds!!

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In other news, the Scheduling project is moving along, though it could be moving faster.  I’m going out of town this weekend, which is making getting anything done tricky:  Whenever I have extra time,I have to use it to get ahead on my homework, which is seriously substantial this semester.  Things are getting done in general, but I need to tweak the thing some more; there are still vague spots, which I tend to fill either with homework (not good for the eyes, doing more homework per day than needed; but I tend to get sucked into the readings) or movies.  And I need to squeeze time in there for piano practice; I’m getting mega rusty.  Ah well.

Yikes, time to stop blathering and get to work!  I swear, these long mornings spoil ya after a while…