Today
**This post was transferred from the now defunct "The Long Ease" blog.** So much going on today. Most exciting is that today is my first day working my newly negotiated schedule at my job. Since I started there, I'd been working 7-4:30 M-Th and then in the beginning, just in the mornings on Friday. But as we got busier, Fridays became til 3:30. The overtime was nice, but the reality that working 9-1/2+ hour days was not easy for me became more and more apparent after my most recent bladder procedure. By 2 or 3pm, I was ready to crawl under my desk and pass out. My belief is that it had a lot to do with the fact that in order to be signed in at work by 7am, I was needing to get up by 4:30 or 5am. Which, for someone who struggles as much with sleep as I do, SUCKS. And no, I don't have a long commute, but my "post-cancer healthy lifestyle" is pretty time-consuming. Every morning (when my bladder isn't being a jerk) I do a 20 minute wo...