Average Jane’s Skewed Schedule

I’ve had seven days off work out of the last nine days.  In that time, I’ve managed to revert to my preferred daily schedule, which involves staying up well past midnight and sleeping until late morning.

Over the last three days, I’ve been to a midnight movie, had dinner at
Denny’s after the bars closed (my husband had a gig – I wasn’t just
randomly bar hopping), and stayed up until 1:00 a.m. catching up on
episodes of "Deadwood."  Breakfast:  noon or later each day.  It’s been lovely.

Years ago, I worked a 3:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. shift at a printing company.  Because my husband was a musician who kept similar hours, we’d stay up most of every night.  It wasn’t unusual to find us grocery shopping at 2:00 a.m. or later. 

The job didn’t involve any face-to-face contact with the public, so I’d often roll out of bed at 2:30 or 3:00 p.m., throw on whatever clothes were handy, and head to the office without even bothering to brush my hair.  Good times.

As I’m yawning my way through this post at 7:00 a.m. (when I should be getting dressed and, yes, fixing my hair), I sure wish I could have stayed in bed until at least nine or ten.  I’d be perfectly okay with another noon-ish breakfast, followed by lunch at around 5:30 or so and dinner at 10.

Unfortunately, I can’t avoid the reality that I’ll be at my desk by 8:00 a.m. all this week, and at my dad’s seminar by 7:30 a.m. every day next week.

I wonder what it would be like to not have to follow any kind of regular schedule.  I suppose I got a taste of it when I was self-employed, but I still ended up working at relatively standard times except when I didn’t have any work to do at all.  Unless I win the lottery (which is highly unlikely, seeing as I never buy lottery tickets), I doubt I’ll ever find out.

What’s your daily schedule?  Do you like it or wish you could have a different routine?