Freedom! After near constant work schedule since halloween, and accruing 3x the comp time allowed, I finally am free until Jan 3rd. Now, to catch up on sleep and laundry. Gotta air this place out. It stinks.

Hello people from retirement/unemployed land'

I had a decent interview last week but haven't even seen an interesting job since.

Also - not managing to keep a diurnal morning dove type schedule very well.

I just had an interesting call with one of my project managers. We had all those layoffs in November so the program manager for one portfolio of projects wanted to have the PMs contact all of the team members to get a sense of how they are feeling and plans for the near future. Basically, what can the program group do to keep our team together and if anyone is unhappy, what would help change that feeling.

I'm happy, I like the work I'm doing for this project, I'm continually challenged and have received lots of recognition for my work. So it was an easy call for me. But I wonder if I'm the exception or the rule.

So for the past few years my periods have been "irregular" for me - which means they've become really regular and slightly heavier.

This was how I realized I was in peri menopause. Four and a half years ago!!! Stop it body, there is no baby and there's never going to be a baby. Go away!

Just started and I'm in general ouch and ugh, not I'm not pleased. I even tried to eat a lot of donuts and feel better. Still gross.

Never could get the hang of them?

Pretty much. Friday makes sense: it's the last day of the work week. Wednesday makes sense, it's the middle of the work week. But Thursdays and Tuesdays? Nonsense filler days. And they both start with the same letter so it's wicked easy to confuse them.

I can't get the hang of being diurnal either. Body wants to stay up til 2 and sleep til 10.

Yep, that would be ideal.

My average on current schedule is try to get to bed by 2am so actually get to bed by 3am on non work days which is perfect for me. Since 70% of my work days lately end up being 2 hrs longer than expected (thanks forced short-notice overtime!) and those I don't get off till 3am, I can't keep to perfection on work days. The forced overtime days I don't usually get to bed till 4, but I also don't dither about, I get straight to bed once i'm home and have fed the cat.

My body has settled into a daylight schedule. Sun up, me up. Unfortunately this means I get sleepy very early in the winter. This was not the case most of my life where I was the night owl who loved to sleep until noon.

Laura, do you sleep in more this time of year because the sun does?