I feel like the original night owl

I wish  I could blame it on old age ................ but I'm not old enough yet.
Wish I could blame it on too much coffeee...................but I do not drink it.
Wish I could say it's cos where i live is too noisy...............but many nights it's as quiet as a grave.


Whenever I tell people that I have trouble getting to bed early at night or falling asleep when I do get there, they tend to nod wisely and ask me what's bothering me, what's on my mind. They get a bit flsutered when I explain that for me, this is a normal state of affairs. There is usually not much that'll bother me to that extent.


Truth be told , if I'm being honest, when I'm up late at night, till the witching hour and beyond, it's simply because my body clock has switched and day is night and night is day.  Too many years of staying up late to study, to watch movies, to read novels, to engage in other entertaining extracurricular activities and this is the result. An adult female who rarely falls asleep before 4am in the morning. The endless cups of tea I drink during the day can't be much help either.  Not to mention my favourite caffiene filled soft drink.............Coca Cola. Yum!



It's not that I have trouble sleeping though,  far from it. I still get my daily quota of the sleep , just not at the regular times when one would expect  a normal human being to be asleep. When I do fall asleep I tend to conk out quite literally and very little wakes me up. You could cart me all the way to the Amazon and I wouldn't even twitch!!!



The plus side  of all this is that graveyard shifts are a breeze, I can ( or could) leave school work till late secure in the knowledge that I could sort out reports and assignments with one good nights effort. I have found I do my best mental activity in the cool of the night. For me, it's a good time to sift through the puzzles of life and try and make sense of it all. Of course , that's only if NCIS isn't on and I do not have a DVD to watch on my PC.  And if I am not chatting away to a significant or not so significant other in a land far far away.



On one such night recently, while reading my latest paperback by James Siegel , a track came up on the music channel Iwas tuned into and it's been sounding in my head ever since. Still catching up on the lyrics but I do love the parts I've made out so far and the melody is great. I hear its been a big hit round the world right about now and one listen will  definately convince you that it really deserves to be. Hoping I can get it on my MP3 player ASAP, for now its off to bed for me. Fireflies by Owl City is the headline track on Soundtrack to my life at 12:38 pm.