I'll be on the night shift for the coming beamrun. I've begun trying to stay up late in order to make the shift early. Usually it's not too difficult for me if done over several days, a few hours at a time. But for the moment I'm really dragging.

Working nights is a mixed bag. It's actually not so difficult aside from the unpleasant shift in sleep and being away from Kerri so much. Depending on how you're feeling it can also dull your wits off and on. But in terms of working, things are often very quiet on the night shift and it can be a great time to get things done. With so few interruptions it's easy to concentrate on the job at hand.

One odd thing about working nights (for me at least) is that inevitably within a few days I will lose track of which day is which. I can count the number of times I've been at work and can count from there to figure out which morning it is. But in terms of intuitively knowing which day of the week it is, I no longer know. It's a little disconcerting and unnatural. However, all this does give me the chance to see a few of the original Star Trek episodes that only seem to come on TV between 4am and 6am.