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bjarvis ([personal profile] bjarvis) wrote2006-05-11 08:41 am
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Brain Dead

The past few days of 14-15 hour shifts is taking its toll. While I am getting enough sleep, domestic duties are slipping and neither [livejournal.com profile] kent4str or I have the energy to cook. Thank god for freezer foods and microwave ovens.

The ultimate in brain dead zombie life was reached last night: because nothing else was on TV and our brains were already reduced to mush, we watched on DVD the 1965 black & white Gamera The Invincible.

Lord, it was bad but we were too comatose to care.

[identity profile] moofedct.livejournal.com 2006-05-11 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder how you can work a 15-hour day and still get enough sleep. I go to bed at 10, up at 6, home by 6:45 (public transport) and in bed by 10.

[identity profile] bjarvis.livejournal.com 2006-05-12 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder how you can work a 15-hour day and still get enough sleep.

Largely by getting brief power naps while on the subway to & from work, and during lunch (if possible). There's no me-time left in the evening as I'm off to bed almost as soon as I get home. And I can function on six hours of sleep for several consecutive days, although it does eventually catch up with me.

Thank god this week is over (or will be in a few more hours).

That whole eating & sleeping thing was so overrated anyway. :-^

[identity profile] moofedct.livejournal.com 2006-05-12 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
That is so wrong! I can do six hours for a day, MAYBE two, but it catches up with me VERY quickly. To function well I need between 7-7.5 hours of sleep (preferably 7.5.)

Last night was particularly short since I'm working the early shift so I can make the flight to Vancouver. I got home at 6:45 and went to bed at 9:15, up at 5 AM!

I love to eat and I love to sleep. Had chicken tiki massala at lunch today...Mmm...