The Joys of Working Graveyard

Some of the perks of working graveyard.
I'll list these not in order of importance but just the order of when I think of the subject.

1. I work when everyone is sleeping so therefore I don't talk to people much. Because of this I end up talking to random people on my cell phone for hours on the weekends, or when I decide that going to bed before Noon is overrated.

1.5. It's hard for me to wake up "at night" especially when I go back to bed from 9p.m. to Midnight. Yeah, as you probably guessed, I don't wake up at midnight. My shift starts at 1a.m. therefore I wake up at 1a.m.. Therefore my hair and my makeup suffers, and my co-workers suffer seeing me at "my best." Like today when I came to work. I woke up at 1a.m. (I showered the night/day before) ran to the bathroom, washed my face, brushed my teeth, pulled my hair into a ponytail, got dressed, grabbed my container of juice along with a tuperware full of milk, and a box of Chex Cereal and ran out the door. I walked into work fully thinking I was totally okay, 15 minutes late as usual (I think my clocks are off) and sat down. Did you see anything I missed?
Yup, you guessed it! My makeup!
Yea, didn't wear it today. I'm going with the natural look. I think it's a good look... for today. Tomorrow I'll make sure I don't forget to put on my face.

2. I'm a normal person and when I get off work I just want to go catch a flick or go out to eat... too bad for me that the theaters and restaurants are closed for "dinner entrees" until "dinner time." Therefore if I want to eat at Little Ceasers, Red Robin, or McDonalds I have to eat it for breakfast. LAME!
A week ago I went to McDonalds with the full intention of ordering one of their new breakfast burritos--with french fries on the side. Yea, as soon as the words fries came out of my mouth the woman at the receiving end of the microphone said "I'm soo sorry mam but we don't serve french fries for at least another two hours. Would you like two hashbrowns for $0.99?" I agreed on the SUBSTITUTE. A lame substitute, but fattening potatoes nonetheless.

3. When I respond back to posts on facebook people wonder why I'm up at 4am and wide awake.

4. I call friends at 9:30 in the morning and want to chat for atleast an hour. Instead I get their voicemail because they are in class.

5. When people call me at three in the afternoon it makes me angry. One, because it wakes me up and two it's 3 a.m. to me! How happy would you be to get a phone call at 3a.m.?

6. When I don't wake up to go to Kung Fu or Tai Chi I feel bad. You should not have to decide between sleep and exercise, especially when your exercise is fighting people. ;)

7. Oh yeah, this was about work. When I try to write stories at three in the morning my writing becomes a bit lazy. I'm surprised the newscast even turns out as good as it does.

8. At about 5a.m. when our show starts I start to wonder if my job is even important.

9. Ok, so I thought this blog was going to be a lot longer, but alas, it's the end of my shift and I'm tired and upset that I'm not gonna get a Little Ceasers $5.00 pizza after work, so I'm going to end this entry.

10. Thanks for listening. I hope this shift ends soon, but there are some good things about working when it's dark. When I come up with some I'll write a new entry.