In short, I have very few things scheduled in my planner. All I'm doing is studying.
This is a marked contrast to my life in general - usually, I have a Moleskine full of meetings and classes and appointments with people.
Unfortunately, when left to my own devices I stay up later and later at night. I do my best work at night - it's quiet, I'm focused, and there are fewer distractions. And then of course since I have stayed up late, I tend to sleep in the next morning. If I have nothing in my planner, there's no reason I can't stay in bed to get my full hours of sleep.
But now that it's been a week, this has the odd side effect that I am now completely backwards on my sleep schedule.
Yes, folks, last night (day?) I went to bed at 4pm, got up at 9pm, and worked all night until the sun rose at 7am. Went back to bed, got up at 1pm, and here I am at 3am wide awake. I'm not even sure I'm on 24 hr days anymore - I just sleep when I get tired. Napping? Bed? Who knows!
Gack! Not that it matters, really, the beautiful thing about being a grad student is that nobody cares how you run your life. But I feel like being completely backwards is probably not the right way to go.
But let the record show this is the only way I ever see the sunrise. It's gorgeous. I had forgotten that.
Maybe I should adopt the programmer's sleep schedule:

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