To Sleep or Not to Sleep

I'm noticing that the idea of sleep occupies a great deal of my thoughts these days, but to a third-shifter, sleep becomes like what food is to a dieter: something which was once an automatic thing but now contemplated. Frequently.

Friday afternoon I called it a night around 4 pm, waking up around midnight. I went into the kitchen (in all my AE teal shirt and pj pants with grizzly bears on them glory) and got a slice of pie (berry) and milk and made myself a little nest in front of the tv. However, I soon found myself once again comatose, waking up at 7 - just in time to start watching MadTV and then passing out during a show on the travel channel. I can't quite recall what this show was about, but I find that travel channel is my preferred channel for sleep induction. And then I woke up and it was...9 pm. So, I flipped the channel over to The Andromeda Strain mini-series (A&E, I think?) and had a chicken salad sandwich while waiting for SNL. Post-SNL...lots of web surfing. I made an eHarmony account, but mostly for the free personality test, which told me nothing that I (and the people from the Gallup Interview - more about that later) didn't already know.

Somewhere in the middle of all of that, I had a Miller Lite and watched Hot Fuzz. Now I'm on a Bud Select and watching the Deathproof portion of Grindhouse. BTW - I'm still holding out for a full length feature of Machete. Don't know what I'm talking about - watch Planet Terror; it's the faux-trailer just prior to the start of the film. Planet Terror is snazzier and more action packed, but Deathproof probably has my heart for the soundtrack, muscle cars, and all the gratuitous shots of bare feet.

I haven't decided if I'm going to try to sleep or if I'm going to just stay up for the remainder of the day. 9 pm tonight will have me at 24 hours, and seeing as how I'm working day shift this week...I probably shouldn't have taken those couple of Tylenol PM a half hour ago. One thing is for certain and that's I need a bath. Haven't had one since Thursday evening and I'm getting to be one ripe petunia!

Yes, I did say that I would be a day-dweller this week. It's true that nothing recharges like night-sleep. It'll be good to return to the 'normal' world for a bit...build up for the weekend. I see being up all night and drinking beers in my future. Also volleyball and tomfoolery before it gets too cold. But in the meantime, I guess I'll wait to see if the tylenol pm-beer combo takes effect and go watch Kurt Russel kill some pretty young things with his car.

Night night?