My work crazyness finally ended mid week, though it could pick up for four weeks at any moment. Things had been busy since last October and stepped up at the start of the year, then picked up further until my day consisted of work, eat, sleep (3 hours most days), reset, for 43 days until this past Wednesday.
I discovered that after four days of three hours sleep that my cogitive processes slowed quite obviously, so every fifth day or so became a 4-5 hour sleep cycle. I seem to be able to function at a relatively high level on abut 20.5 hours per week over an extended period, which kind of surprised me based on sleep/exhaustion studies that I've read with respect to soldiers in combat. Of course, I wasn't beng shot at while working, and wasn't cold, wet, and hungry, Well, not wet at least, or excessively hungry.
By chance, some other "life" stuff has gone on in the background during all of this, and about five weeks back, I started adding in an "exercise" cycle into the day. With the start of the new year, I had conciously altered my eating habits, which had been going well, with the excersive added in, I've maintained a fairly steady, but reasonable weight loss pattern and have dropped about 30 pounds at this point.
There has been no hobby time, though for the first time in decades, ideas for some art projects started creeping into my head, and I began making notes about the ideas for a number of 2-D and 2.5-D projects (think involves depth/relief, but not full blown sculpture).
My return to normal life for the last four days has really exposed the general fatigue issues, and changes to my circadian rhythm are a bit of a pain. I'm still sleeping three hours a night at this point, and have absolutely no fire for reading or anything gaming, which has left me kind of just floating in the ether. And, I still haven't pulled out the paints or pencils for anything artsy, so not sure what is happening there.
Sooo, no gaming stuff to report, just sort of rebooting for normal life again. In any case, I'm not dead yet, though not sure if that is success or failure at this point.
Wow Irish! No way could I get by on less than 8 hours sleep every night. I would not be surprised if you slept for a month... sleeping beauty style.. watch out for any princesses hanging around 😁
ReplyDeleteIt's a pain when work gets in the way of the rest of life! Hope things get back to normal for you soon, and you can get back to your happy mental game-space.
ReplyDeleteI Don't know how old you are, or your general state of health, and I'm not going to preach the obvious, but it sounds like you've been over doing, and fatigue is your body's way of saying slow down.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on losing the weight too.
Still alive and kicking, that's what matters. :D
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