The Bipolar Otaku

When you work day shift or afternoons, your sense of days stays pretty well intact. The day in which you start work will always be the day in which you end work. Start at 7am on Monday and end at 3pm on Monday. Or start at 3pm on Wednesday and end at 11pm on Wednesday.

When you work night shift, it is slightly different, you start so late in the day that you just consider it as part of the day in which you will end your day. Start at 11pm on Tuesday and end at 7am on Wednesday, and you call that entire work day Wednesday.

When you work afternoons AND night shift, things start getting screwy. You wake up and go to work at 6pm Thursday and you get out at 6am Friday. That work day was Thursday. Or was it Friday? Was that a day? Or do you call that a night?

I guess I'm not the only one thrown off a bit by this. One of the guys refers to each passing day as "a sleep", basing his measure of days by the number of times he gets to sleep. Another guy does the opposite and counts "get-ups". I like counting sleeps better. At least that way, you count the good part of the day instead of the bad.

I have only one sleep until I get to go home.