7 : 47 A.M.
Someday... dominion

Having your sleep schedule 180 degrees out of phase with local businesses makes it that much harder to deal with the responsibilities of ownership. From this point of view, the bank simply does not open. The fedex customs dispute line only tells you one thing: call during business hours, which are on Central time. For these reasons, I'm $38 overdue on my car payment and Fedex thinks I owe import taxes on a synthesizer I sent to Sweden for repairs. The remedy is naturally for me to be awake during business hours and get these things taken care of. The fastest way to do that is just to stay for a really long time, and then call the Fedex line and say, "Harrah? Yuh. I lie discharge punter mosquito important charcoal thatch cowed upon miles chip meat." The bodies cycles aren't easily interrupted.

This schedule also brings the familiar distress from people who want to spend time with me, mostly because they have more typical schedules. Kris doesn't want to call at 6 pm and find me still sleeping. I mean, he wakes up pretty late, but at he's diurnal for the most part (I mean, sometimes he declines activities by saying "it's kind of late..." I never say that. 5 am. Sure, let's go to Denny's.) Helen, though, is an early riser. Often awake at 7 AM for intense yoga or one of her many diverse and mentally taxing occupations, Helen is sometimes stirring by the time I'm going to sleep. This means that when she's going to sleep, my body thinks it is noon. So she drops off to sleep and then I go outside looking for stuff to do. Or I browse the web, or chat on IRC, or program something, or try to write music. Or just get a headache. That can really make the hours drag.

It seems like my schedule always gets like this when left up to me. A job, school, or just arbitrarily scheduled wake-up times can shift my schedule back to where everything expects it to be. I'm sort of waiting for a job to synchronize to. New job to learn! New coworkers to give odd nicknames! New crazy idiosyncratic application specific in-jokes of which to get sick! I'm totally raring to go here.

I also learned that fedex is expensive when you have to pay for it yourself. Guess I should show some restraint with regards to the "ULTRA FATAL PRIORITY NEXT DAY SERVICE" checkbox.