When you work 12 hour shifts, all night, three nights in a row….you tend to go a little loopy. There’s a 50 minute drive each way to and from work, and when I get home I have to stay up long enough for the dogs to frolic and do business outside. So let’s say I spend 15 hours a day ‘working’. I have to take my meds and get 8 hours of sleep or else my brain starts to beat me up, so there’s 23 hours right there. I have an hour of freedom to eat something or, luxury upon luxury, read or write. That’s my life from Friday night to Monday morning. Now, I can shave off an hour of sleep (and sometimes my body does that anyway) and write or read more, I can stay awake and play with the dogs so they don’t go stir-crazy and destroy the house, I have options…but not really. 

Advantages! I get four days off a week, although I waste one day of freedom by sleeping through it. I can hang out with my friends with normal schedules after they’re off work and I don’t care HOW late I stay up, if said friends are available. I can model or do extra work (read: working as an extra for film shoots) without worrying about using my accrued PTO. I can schedule my doctor appointments any time during the week because I know I won’t have work. That last perk is damn convenient, if a little lame. 

So I am happy with graveyards, at least for now, although things may change when the Husband starts school and has a crazy schedule too. The only thing that sucks is leaving the dogs alone, and that won’t be an issue after Husband comes home. 

On the other hand, it’s 5:20 am and I would murder you all to be asleep right now. 

The things we do for a paycheck. 
Good night/morning, loyal reader.