I am getting verrry sleepy

Actually, I'm not, and therein lies the problem of late. I'm locked back into my night-owl habits, way off any healthy circadian rhythms known to mankind in general. This is not good because I'm up somewhere around 6:30-6:45 am six days a week to post print stories from the paper (the system's not good enough to automate it), after which I invariably have to crash again. Split sleep really isn't healthy. I can blame the Red Sox' playoff run and, to some extent, Obama and McCain for this state -- it was the consistent night filing during the playoffs and debates that set me into this cycle.

Fortunately, it won't persist, because we'll be moving to a posting schedule during the day/early evening sometime in the fairly near future, but I do have a choice to make. My hours will shift for a while to roughly noon-9 pm while I get that new posting system in place and train colleagues. Do I wake up early, use the morning, go to work, come home and crash? Or do I stay up from work into the night and get my sleep into the morning? Each has its strengths and pitfalls, and I haven't decided yet. But I pretty much have to pick one and get myself back on a regular, non-interrupted schedule. "Repair the damage," indeed.

Meanwhile, colleague Chip, at his desk, muttered as I was writing this, "I'm falling asleep here." Bastard. :-)