September 28, 2006
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night shifts time
so i'm shore duty for the last two months i'm in the navy, and guess what. i'm working night shifts, from 7pm to 7am (or 1900 to 0700). my days rotate too so there's no more routine sleep. my shore duty job has been to work as the security/ id checker for the same really old dorm (barracks) i sleep at when i'm in san diego. now there's good with the bad with any job, so this job is still working on both. it's been good to have this job cause i get to sit around for 12 hours reading my books. (right now i'm reading 'a guide to recognizing your saints' by dito montiel and earlier i finally finished the count of monte cristo by dumas). then you get to chit chat with all the drunks and fellow night shift workers. so the downfall of the job besides estranged hours of sleeping, is (1) it's boring between 12:45am and 4am, (2) by the time 4am rolls around all i can think of is that i'll be off very soon. plus at about 3am i'm trying hard to stay awake, cause my body is telling me to sleep. so of course standing for the remainder of your hours is no option, but a must.
last night i had a MA (master at arms - wanna be cop) complain to me about having to start 12 hour work shifts. i gave him no sympathy, even when he tried to point out the fact that i can sit rather than having to stand.
i've also been doing just some random writing on my pen journal. you know the ol' fashion writing style. next work shifts i think i'll bring my old school stuff so that i can study because i'm going back to college in january. i've got nothing better to do while i'm on these night shifts so i might as well make the best of it.
btw all those shore duty peoples in 32nd area come say hi to me in snyder when i've got my night watches. please. so as to help me from my boredom. LOL
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I emember working mids when I was in the Air Force, did it for almost 2 years straight, flipped my whole schedule around, breakfast at 1030 pm lunch at 4 or 5 am, dinner at 10am-12noon, was the only way I could operate w/o being totally wigged out, took a while to come off of it after 2 years though.
Hope you have a great day
If I was anywhere around I would come and see you at 3 am just to break up the monotony. Maybe you can order pizza
just kidding. My husband has been working 12's, six days a week for almost 2 years now. We're both pretty sick of it, can't wait to go back to a regular 48 hour week.
Re-training yourself to study is a great idea. It will put you a step ahead when you start school again.
I read a blog on here that the writer puts everything down in her pen journal and then types her blogs from that. Me personally, I've started dozens of journals and never consistently kept it going for more than a month. I guess xanga was made for people like me.
welcome to my madness and thanks for subbing.
I can't keep a paper journal for very long, either. Must be the feedback that comes along with Xanga. It doesn't seem quite so lonely. LOL
I loved The Count of Monte Cristo! I haven't read it for years, but I still have it upstairs somewhere. :-p
Trish
Just hang in there, the end is in sight.
I got a little sleepy just reading your post! lol Not because of you... but that sure sounds like a boring "job". Especially since it's the night shift.
ryc: thanks for stoppin' by.
I wasn't actually Christmas shopping though. I was out and about for myself and I just saw something that struck my funny bone to give to my sister. I mean I could have given it to her now, but I think it's gonna be more fun to tease her for a few months. haha
'a guide to recognizing your saints'
that's a spanking new movie starring Robert Downey Jr. and Rosario Dawson!!! I saw previews for it on the Ellen show just the other day!
Cool. It's a book... I'm gonna get it at the library!!!
What ever happened to four hour shifts? Is no matter......... Is no dog watches anymore?Those were the good old days... ha..... not.......
Hope ya get to finish ur book and ur time in peace.....
mitch
how are the nights working out for ya? still diggin them?
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