Always glad to provide comic relief! Was definitely feeling silly. Started in on the kitchen a bit and pondered starting some of that cooking I'd envisioned, but decided that sleep would not happen then. Posted here and hung out a bit. Went to sleep about 12:30 (afternoon). When BF came in I said, "oh, I've been asleep for an hour". He just laughed. It'd been 4. Got up for a couple hours and went back to bed. Slept for about 13 hours.

You know what one of the hardest things is? Trying to figure out "hours slept" on my mood chart! When was that? Does it count for this day or that? I even keep a little sheet by the bed to try to keep track and am still completely confused.

Grkgjohn, yeah, it's hard even on the "normals". My ex (who's worked shifts all over the clock for several years now) said, "so how do you like the sleep thing?" Eh, not so much. Am glad however that it's not constantly rotating around the clock. Couldn't deal with that for sure. Had a very short-lived job many years ago like that, and totally couldn't handle it (The job sucked too, so that didn't help. Quit after 6 weeks.)

Hey Wendy, you're onto something there! Though I seldom have trouble falling asleep (sometimes, but not that often), my sleep troubles seem to play out more that for spans of time, I wake up in the middle of night not being able to get back to sleep for 2-3 hours, mind just cascading with thoughts. No one would want me on the job then, though! Lol, unless that job were journalling, which happens a lot in those times.

There is a location change in the job coming up in a couple of weeks. As it will be a good time to put in for a change, I'll decide by then whether to ask for day shifts. Leaning towards a yes. I don't know whether this all is directly affecting my mood instability, but it is definitely messing with my mind, which is completely scrambled* most of the time now. That surely can't help the overall picture...

*Scrambled, as in even less idea where we are on the clock/calendar than usual, constantly mixing up words (and not realizing it), words eluding me, only being able to think of things that rhyme or are in the same general (VERY general) meaning vicinity, whereupon I'll set to thinking about it only to realize that the theatre is completely dark. BF has been boggled by the extent of it. Spaced out near-gibberish one minute, then suddenly perfectly lucid well-constructed sentences containing extensive vocabulary. (Posting in times of clarity still takes forever w/ typos, revisions etc...)
If only I could just stop "swearing" at chicken packages....