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Thanks go to Lee’s My body clock is trying to kill me post for inspiring this one.

I’ve had the good fortune of being able to work at home from Christmas until yesterday. Today, I had to get up at normal-people hours to get onsite at an office. I dreaded it.

Since this post is being written on Saturday and scheduled to post on Monday morning, I wonder how I’m doing right now?

College was the first time I realized that my body’s natural settings made me a night person. I love the times past midnight. Everyone else is asleep, and I’m putzing around thinking, writing, and doing my schoolwork.

I would walk the campus all by myself and feel totally at ease. I’ve joked that I may be a vampire many times.

So for the past eleven or so days, I’ve been able to settle into the asleep at 2:00-3:00 am / get up at 10:00-11:00 am rotation. If you’ll notice, that’s still about 8 hours of sleep.

When I try to fit into a societally decreed workday, I am sluggish a lot of the time. Without caffeine in the morning, my mind stays foggy all day. I find myself feeling that things are just off some of the time.

It seems that I am just not cut out to exist in normal society. :)

Luckily, the decision I made to start my own business is helping my situation a bit. I do have more flexibility now. But, that also makes it harder to adapt when every day calls for a different set of hours.

I wonder what evolutionary purpose my clock’s setting is designed for. Am I the night lookout? Do I make sure the fire stays lit? Or perhaps I make sure the night crawlies stay out of the cave?

I’m sure not made to commute-sit-commute.

But I do it anyway. At least sometimes.

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One of these was given by the boyfriend. One of these came from a good friend. One of these was gifted by my mother.

Guess which one.

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In the first post of the year, it is customary to:

1. Wish everyone a happy new year and express thanks for the readership and support.

I’ve really enjoyed having this blog for the last nine months. I’ve seen my stats grow so I know there are people out there. Thanks so much for stopping by! I would probably still write even if no one was reading, but it is so much more fun to think that someone else actually sees this stuff.

I hope we all have a joyful, prosperous, adventurous, and rewarding 2009.

2. Put forth some resolutions, vow some actions, and set some goals.

Resolutions: Be more optimistic. Be less lazy. Look at the planner every day. Write everything down in the planner.

Actions: Downgrade cable after the end of Battlestar Galactica. Redo the business website. Cut more expenses.

Goals: Refocus the business. Get moving on the financial front.

3. Make some predictions.

If they get Illinois Rod Blagojevich for something, they’ll have to do it with something else besides the vacant Obama Senate seat.

President Obama is going to be very frustrated in his first year in office. Congress is not going to cooperate as much as he is expecting them to. After he adjusts, the following years of his Presidency will be better.

The credit crunch is not going to get better next year. The credit card industry is going to hit the news.

Laura Roslin is going to die on Battlestar, and I am going to be a sobbing mess. (not a spoiler)

The Apple backlash/disenchantment is going to get louder.

Have a good one, folks! Let’s go get ‘em!

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