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Ho Hum

I am usually quite excited this time of the week. I come home from work and am looking forward to a three day weekend. However, this morning I find I am not very excited.

Today at work, I was informed that I will be scheduled to work day shift for a couple months until the crew strength increases enough to support a day and a night shift. Mind you, I understand most people would be quite happy to work days--however, I haven't worked or lived a dayshift schedule for over five years. I am basically 8-12 hours behind everyone on my siderial cycle. And I only have 2 days to get into a dayshift waking/sleep cycle--oh boy. I start dayshift Monday--7am to 5:30pm. Hell, I'm going to work when I normally go to bed!!! Talk about potential jet lag.

Okay, that is the sleep situation--the other thing I'm not looking forward to is all the micro-management that exists on days. I'm used to being given an assignment and then left on my own to get it done. Day shift doesn't quite work that way. There are at least three bosses for the packaging department--which is where I work--and they have to earn their pay by being bosses. Oh joy!

But first things first and that is the sleep deprivation--that is what I need to correct before it gets totally out of hand.

I'm the writer I am today, only because of all the help I've received from other writers yesterday.