Having worked all night, I slept for half the day. I woke up to find a little renewed energy, an inbox full of (not necessarily important) emails, and rather significant disorientation about day and time and, well, just about everything.
Within hours, I had largely regained my balance, jumping into the kid pickups and making dinner normalcy of life. While not completely recovered from my all-nighter (one of several this week), I had succeeded in making it mesh, at least today, with the rest of my life.
I'm not saying that I've discovered that night work is the way to go. I don't know that I will ever be a night person. But today, I got a glimpse of some of the survival skills that make it work. And I suppose that is the case with anything new that we face--what we can handle depends largely upon how willing we are to learn new skills, whether those skills are new programs and applications or daytime sleeping.
I can't know what the coming weeks--or months or years--will bring. In the meantime, I'll be banking the sleep and the other new skills--because a few new skills are worthwhile, no matter where you end up.
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