Wide Awake

It's 2:40am as I write this. I took tonight off of work(I work midnights) so that I could re-adjust to day schedule and take part in boot camp tomorrow(by tomorrow I mean today, but later today after which I have supposed to have slept).

Problem is is that I tried to go to bed early, or rather early for my first day off - 11:30 or so but after only being up for 9 1/2 hrs I am not tired at all, so my body feels more like I went for a nap and about 45 min later I am up like a shot. Now it's 2:47 and I doubt if I will get more than an hour or two of sleep before 5:15 get up time.

I short this sucks but what can you do - I probably would have been better off just saving a vacation day, working the night and heading out after work - Usually I stay up late reading my first night off - to 1:00 or 1:30 and then get up at 7:00-7:30 and I'm back with the living but trying to do what I did last night is bunk.

Generally, I figure that as long as I have 6-8 hours sleep within the last 24 I should be good. That will get me to about 10 am tomorrow, we'll see how it goes after that, I may have to find a quite place to pass out for a while.

As far as my Kung-Fu goes as of late, I feel that I am steadily improving as I go. Physically over the last couple years (kick-started by last years UBBT 7) I can honestly say I have never been in better shape, as far as actual harmonies and movement go I am starting to see things differently then I did in years gone by. When you start out improvement happens at break-neck speed but at this point there doesn't seem to be those plateaus that you hit where you can really see what you've done - it is now a slow steady (hopefully forward) march. Even though the improvement is slower going I feel that I am learning at a much more accelerated pace. It's hard to appreciate the difference but basically I tend to be grasping, understanding and applying things quicker but the skill still takes a bit to catch up to the understanding. I hope that made sense.

Well is 3:15 - I am going to try to get a few hours of rest.