It's very early Sunday morning here in Toronto. What is generally the universal day for everyone to pause and catch up and be ready for the week has, for me, never been the same for the last two years. Not since I started working a night shift. People I know are right now still tucked in bed fast asleep, and they won't even be close to waking up for a few more hours to come.
I got up at 4 AM. With my alarm. I had a bowl of cereal and took some laundry downstairs to get it out of the way. In about 90 minutes I will leave my apartment with my gym bag slung over my shoulder and walk down Yonge Street to the intersection at Dundas and work out from 7 AM to somewhere close to 9 AM, just in time to get the subway home as it starts running for the day. Somewhere after that I'll take my time putting away the laundry I have washed and making my meal plan for the week ahead, and then I'll be oing back to bed with the hope that I'll get at least a 6 hour nap before I go back to work at 11 PM tonight.
*sigh*
It's odd though; last week I was on days from Wednesday to Friday to go to a training session and even though it was daytime hours I think I actually got less done than I usually do. Working nights is the same amount of time that people have at days, and I get the same amount of time after to eat, to shop, to do everything that everyone else does. Mind you, I am home before retail opens, and if I want to go shopping for something I can do it before or after I have been to bed. And the gym - I am done work when it opens, so I usually work out on my way home and take my time, instead of rushing in and out on a limited window of time.
I think I have actually become used to working nights over the lsat little while. And aside from the perks mentioned above I find there is one more huge bonus to be had: no people! The subway is empty, the streets deserted! It's like my own little zombie film. Just without the zombies. By contrast I was at Canada's Wonderland on Friday night for their Halloween Haunt and while I was riding the rollercoasters in the dark and in the freezing cold (and marvelling at how this could only happen in Canada) I was slowly getting more and more agitated by the great stupid stumbling masses of people packed in there. Or even going to the Eaton Centre yesterday (although I did not go in, I just went to Best Buy) I was getting tense at not being able to move at a regular normal pace down the sidewalks because of the slowpokes in front of me gawking at windows or stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to answer their phones or send texts.
Oh look at that, it's almost time to go put the clothes in the dryer. Wish me luck - here comes the week again!
That is all.
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