I almost really overslept again this morning.

Almost.

As I approach my 5:30 am nap, I tend to get very sleepy.  In addition, by this point I don’t have much to do.  It’s either too loud, or not engaging enough to keep me from passing out.

So I’m sleepy with nothing to do.  This is where I would, in the past, grab a nap, or just go to bed.  But I don’t have that option anymore.  So when I woke at 6, overly groggy both from the nap and from the time, I felt the need for a little more.  So I layed down for another 15 mins or so.

Between Jess’ alarm and the ones I set, I managed to sleepily bat them away and keep resting.

But this has led me to the belief that, although this schedule is great for maximizing my time and allowing me to do more, I’m not doing it because I either don’t have enough to do, or I can’t do it at night (big portion of my ‘free’ time) or I’m just too tired to do it.

That being seaid, I’m having trouble finding the benefits of this schedule at this time. 

I’m almost convinced now that i’m going to abandon this experiment in favor of some bi-phasic schedule.

I will probably try this again for the summer, when we are travelling and my wife has off, but I still need to work.  But again, if I can’t sit at a computer that late for that long without falling asleep – then this won’t work.

The real problem is that my job is sedentary, as is my lifestyle.  I had hoped to use this schedule to get the boring, sedintary stuff done behind the scenes and go out and do something active during the day, but so far I haven’t been able to do this, and have needed to try to work during the day to cover the nighttime hours that I spend staring at teh wall.