Tired...

[danalwyn]

Friday/Saturday schedule:

08:20 - Wake up because I can't sleep anymore.
11:00 - Try to call my brother before he vanishes off to college.
12:00 - Give up on brother, go into work
12:20 - Get to office
19:30 - Give up on work, start surfing Wikipedia
20:00 - Try taking nap in office, doesn't work, back to Wikipedia
23:00 - Give up on office. Go to control room.
00:00 - Start shift (officially)
01:00 - Complete first check. Try not to die of boredom.
03:00 - Get second wind
05:30 - Second wind dies.
06:30 - Am so tired that I can no longer stay in my chair more than two minutes without falling asleep
07:54 - Get out of shift.
08:00 - Discover that being too tired to see more than a few inches in front of your face and driving stick shift do not go together well.
08:20 - Get back to apartment, thankfully in one piece. Go directly to bed.
11:30 - Wake up because I can't sleep any more.

I don't think I'm going to make it through a week of this midnight to 8am stuff...

Comments

Re: Dude...

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

Someone always has to watch the detector, it functions 24 hours a day and in the event of a problem, the appropriate expert has to be woken up. A burnout in the silicon can destroy the detector in hours (we have a crash button in the control room), a fluctuation in any channel could literally destroy the experiment. So there are actually always four people monitoring and running the detector on our side. I just happened to be picked for the bad shift.

The problem is that this is supposed to be on top of your regular workload. Unfortunately, considering how I feel most of the day, I'm just going to have to push my regular work load back to...well...never.