I want to punch whoever thinks being a shifted sleeper (4am-noon or 6am-2pm in my case) is a bad thing. I had a job that loved me for taking all the late shifts that my age cohort didn’t want so they could have a social life. I just didn’t want to have to wake before noon. :D
If I try (and fail) to keep social hours, aka business hours, I have to contend with severe insomnia (in bed by midnight, awake til sunup), or I just don’t sleep. Either is bad for me, my health, and the sanity for those around me.
Where I live, most things are finished by noon, and stores close at 4 on the weekend. Late night shopping means open til maybe 7pm on a Friday. (I miss my home city/country. Weekend hours til 6pm, late night (open til 9pm) three nights a week. Moving here was like going back in time forty years.)
Grr Argh and stuff.
It’s currently 7:30 am. I just got off work, I’m browsing a bit on my phone before I take a shower & head to bed. Perfectly normal day for me & my wife understands. I get a hundred apologies if she has to wake me up for something, and she usually doesn’t get out of bed before noon.
Us night owls are a necessary part of a functional society!
You’re making me feel lucky for living somewhere things close at 2100. I’ve been missing my old city where things closed at 0200.
What I wouldn’t give to be somewhere where stores don’t close down while the sun is still up. This is a capital city, even.
