WG's new schedule
Dec. 6th, 2006 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusI came home last night and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wildernessguru was sprawled on the couch, limp as a dishrag. He'd bought groceries but hadn't finished putting them away and I discovered the milk and yogurt were still in his pack.
"They are?" he said, barely able to drum up interest.
This is Mr. Neat, Mr. Thorough, the man whose drawers were so organized when we met I asked if he was in the military. (Close. As a firefighter he had to find his clothes in the dark.) The man who reorganizes the fridge to put away the orange juice.
I looked at his tired eyes and knew this was a man at the end of his rope. I set aside all my homework, put away the groceries, made dinner, and set him in front of a movie.
His work hours changed a few weeks ago from 7:00am - 3:30pm to 6:00am - 2:30pm, which means he now has to be up at 3:30 in the morning.
He does errands and gets home around four-thirty and tries to got to bed around 8 or 9 (both of which are too late) and we've given up all our TV shows, but he really doesn't get any sleep until 10pm. At best he's getting five hours a night. I stay up till midnight most nights. He says I don't keep him awake, but I know what happens to me in the morning.
When he gets up at 3:30, I wake up and then get two hours of fitful dozing while he bumps around. Then I wake up again at 5:15am when he heads out to work. I try to sleep after that; sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. He's a much lighter sleeper than me, so I bet those hours from 10pm - midnight aren't really sleep.
The way our schedules overlap, we're getting three hours sleep a night.
My last day of school is Friday and finals end Wednesday, so that'll solve it for the short term. The house is clean, we're fed, the cat's petted (always a priority) and we're surviving but, man, something has to give.
wildernessguru was sprawled on the couch, limp as a dishrag. He'd bought groceries but hadn't finished putting them away and I discovered the milk and yogurt were still in his pack. "They are?" he said, barely able to drum up interest.
This is Mr. Neat, Mr. Thorough, the man whose drawers were so organized when we met I asked if he was in the military. (Close. As a firefighter he had to find his clothes in the dark.) The man who reorganizes the fridge to put away the orange juice.
I looked at his tired eyes and knew this was a man at the end of his rope. I set aside all my homework, put away the groceries, made dinner, and set him in front of a movie.
His work hours changed a few weeks ago from 7:00am - 3:30pm to 6:00am - 2:30pm, which means he now has to be up at 3:30 in the morning.
He does errands and gets home around four-thirty and tries to got to bed around 8 or 9 (both of which are too late) and we've given up all our TV shows, but he really doesn't get any sleep until 10pm. At best he's getting five hours a night. I stay up till midnight most nights. He says I don't keep him awake, but I know what happens to me in the morning.
When he gets up at 3:30, I wake up and then get two hours of fitful dozing while he bumps around. Then I wake up again at 5:15am when he heads out to work. I try to sleep after that; sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. He's a much lighter sleeper than me, so I bet those hours from 10pm - midnight aren't really sleep.
The way our schedules overlap, we're getting three hours sleep a night.
My last day of school is Friday and finals end Wednesday, so that'll solve it for the short term. The house is clean, we're fed, the cat's petted (always a priority) and we're surviving but, man, something has to give.
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Ha. That sounds like the Army. :D
Date: 2006-12-06 11:32 pm (UTC)Huh. That's probably why it was working fine when he got up at 4:30 but 3:30 is killing us.
Or you'll have a psychotic episode.
*laughs* Really. We'll have time to recover over Christmas.
His schedule won't revert. I tried going to bed when he did last night and it's the first time I've felt human in a while. On the other hand, I got nothing done, and getting up early... well, I'm not all that sharp first thing in the morning. Homework's a lost cause at 6 am.
Icarus
Re: Ha. That sounds like the Army. :D
Date: 2006-12-07 01:53 am (UTC)I hope things work out for you, and things get better. Take care of yourselves.