Don't pull an all dayer while working night shift

 When someone stays up all night, they call it an all nighter, so then when they stay up all day, is it an all dayer? I thought of that yesterday morning as I was trying to fall asleep for the day. I bragged about how I have actually managed to get more sleep on nights than usual and then I struggled to fall asleep. I jinxed myself. 

I want to learn more about ergonomics. My co-workers have been showing me scars and talking about pain related to repetitive tasks at work. It has scared me just enough to take it seriously. I want to prevent damage to myself while I'm young so I can reduce my suffering later on.

Breaks on nights can be lonely as all my friends and family are all sleeping (or at least they should be). I am not a fan of social media so that leaves me with emails to time delay delivery until morning or Google. I don't really have anything to email people about tonight so here I sit all by myself writing in a blog I have yet to tell anyone about yet. I'm not a particularly talkative person but I enjoy being around people. So this is a little bit of a challenge. 

Night shift has restructured my normal routine. On days, I would wake up, quickly eat then head to work. After a day shift, I would then get social interaction in. Now, my schedule is reversed?, inverted?, Upsidedown? I don't know. Now I wake up, socialize with my family, watch my favorite YouTubers, eat supper and work is the last thing I do. I get home from work, eat something quickly then go to bed. It is strange. I don't mind it. It is just not what I'm used to.

I've been thinking about how I'm going to handle the switch to days off. I don't think I would be easily able to just stay up the day after my last night shift in a set. Or maybe I could? I haven't tried. I read something about sleeping until lunch time and then staying up to a regular night of sleep. That could work too. It might even be better because my friend I hang out with the most isn't usually awake in the morning so there would be less lonely time if I also slept that first morning off. 

I never noticed the sound of the ventilation in my building during the day, but right now, it seems really loud. Was it this loud in the day time too? It probably was but it got drowned out by people buzzing through. 

That's all folks.

Sammy