Night Owls

Sliver · 22 Jan 2016 at 00:15

Night crawlers stir in the shadows, creeping, crawling, watching, waiting. I sit and wait and watch the clock, tick tock, tick tock. Daylight has abandoned me. Tick tock, tick tock ...

Liquiduk · 22 Jan 2016 at 00:16

Sliver said:
Night crawlers stir in the shadows, creeping, crawling, watching, waiting. I sit and wait and watch the clock, tick tock, tick tock. Daylight has abandoned me. Tick tock, tick tock ...

wut? O.o

Sliver · 22 Jan 2016 at 00:54

Tick tock, tick tock. Night crawlers slip and slide around my mind. They're watching, waiting, searching. Whispers swirl in the dark. Tick tock, tick tock ...

savagesam117 · 22 Jan 2016 at 01:04

Because that's normal..

FloppyPoppy · 22 Jan 2016 at 01:26

savagesam117 said:
Because that's normal..

My thoughts exactly.

Sliver · 22 Jan 2016 at 01:28

No appreciation for surrealism?

FloppyPoppy · 22 Jan 2016 at 02:25

No, apparently none at all.

In fact. I find it kind of creepy and it's not the good kind of creepy.

Sliver · 22 Jan 2016 at 02:46

Read 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe. That's creepy too.

AHarvey · 22 Jan 2016 at 03:08

my 4 year old just threw up over her bed, bedroom floor and herself...

#parenthoodperks

Stovepipes · 22 Jan 2016 at 03:15

I went to bed at a reasonable hour, 10pm and still woke up at 2:30am. I can never seem to sleep all night.

ScoTTyBEEE · 22 Jan 2016 at 03:15

Bummer. I can't sleep..,again

Having a dog on the bed squashing me into a corner doesn't help mind.

bainbridge · 22 Jan 2016 at 03:36

ScoTTyBEEE said:
Bummer. I can't sleep..,again

Having a dog on the bed squashing me into a corner doesn't help mind.

Same here, awoke with him smack in the middle and me shaped around him like a question mark.

Just made an Ovaltine and about to listen to a Richard Herring podcast, should drift back off to sleep.

AHarvey · 22 Jan 2016 at 04:06

I don't know why you let dogs sleep on the bed with you.

Always had dogs and they've always slept on the landing. My mum has some terriers and they sleep on/under/between her pillows.

Captain · 25 Jan 2016 at 02:00

Who's still awake? I've got 4 hours left of my night shift, the start of 6 12 hour nights

fatiain · 25 Jan 2016 at 02:07

Me. I'm on nights today and tomorrow (Monday night).

Then I've got 12 days off for my birthday!

Captain · 25 Jan 2016 at 02:10

fatiain said:
Me. I'm on nights today and tomorrow (Monday night).

Then I've got 12 days off for my birthday!

What's your working hours?

fatiain · 25 Jan 2016 at 02:27

Clov!s said:
What's your working hours?

2 days 0700-1900, 2 nights 1900-0700 and 4 off (although I sleep into my first rest day).

It's an epic shift pattern for holidays!

Captain · 25 Jan 2016 at 02:28

Ah, mine is the same except for 6-6, doing nights all week though as people are off.

fatiain · 25 Jan 2016 at 02:33

We get stiffed with all days or all nights occasionally to cover sickness/holiday. Get moved around between stations for the same reason as well.

Rroff · 25 Jan 2016 at 02:59

Would never be able to swing my sleeping pattern like that :S I just swapped from afternoon/evening shifts to 6am starts and my sleeping is still messed up over a week on - woke up just before 2am from a brief nap :s