This is exactly how I feel and have felt today. When you are not used to waking up this early in the morning, you will feel it in your eyes, brain and body. Waking up at 6am daily for the next week is looking like a task. I am used to sleeping till 11:30 am or 12 pm since I work either 6:30 pm to 3:30 am or 7:30 pm to 4:30 am.

Now for this I have to wake up and do an 8 am to 5 pm shift and I cannot tell you how happy I was when I looked at my timer and it showed that it was almost 5pm. I am tired, my eyes feel heavy and I am sure that I will fall asleep early on. I managed to get around 5.5 hours to 6 hours of sleep last night. Even if I went to bed earlier on, I found it hard to fall asleep as that is usually much later on in the night. I think I tried to sleep by around 11 pm and yeah that is usually too early for me.

I was woke up by the alarm at 6 am and I spent 5 minutes lying in bed before I got up to go wash my face and brush my teeth. It was still very dark and I went to get some coffee before setting up my laptop. By 7 am I went to shave and shower and get ready for work. My trainings were pushed back by a day so I tried to finish off all pending work till 5pm when I could shut down the work desktop and chill.

So this past weekend was a 3 day weekend for me. It wasn’t planned in advance because I didn’t know for sure that I could take this Monday off as well. Confused? Let me explain. I am going to conduct training for a group of new hire employees who are in Chennai. But this particular line of business work 6 days a week. Hence I will have to work this Saturday.

As yesterday, Monday, was their orientation program I could take the day off and work Tuesday to Saturday since technically I did not need to work on Monday and I am owed two days off a work week. Since the company (I think most co-orporates do) consider a work week to be Sunday To Monday, I could take Monday off without it being a leave. But I could only confirm this on Sunday evening as the people in Chennai did not confirm anything until Sunday. So I quickly applied to take Monday off as I did not want to work 6 days a week if I could avoid it.

But that also meant that I didn’t plan anything for this 3 day weekend. I was battling a cold so I took plenty of rest. I also did my best to change my sleep pattern – having been working either 6:30 pm to 3:30 am or 7:30 pm to 4:30 am. For the next 2 weeks it’s going to be 8 am to 5 pm and that is tough to change all of a sudden. So I am glad that I had these 3 days to change my wake pattern and wake up early enough on Sunday & Monday to have coffee and breakfast. Onto work now!