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three hours sleep Technically speaking for most people living in the United States or even Europe for that matter, this is Friday morning, but since I have yet to go to bed, this is still Thursday for me and this will be my entry for Thursday. Besides I am supreme here and I can create the rules. Of course this is nothing new for me. I just felt like explaining it one more time. Third shift does wonderful things to my sense of time. It is far from linear in my mind. Another great example would be when Nicole walked me out into the lobby this (Friday) morning, she said that she would see me tomorrow even though we both work tonight. Of course I won't see her until after midnight so it really will be tomorrow, but it does still have a strange ring to it. Then again maybe it doesn't. ... Despite the length of what I wrote yesterday, there were still details that got left behind. Trying to compress a day into words is never an easy task for me and I've been trying to get it right for close to five years now. Memory gets shaped into something else along the way. Plus something about only getting three hours of sleep does tend to warp my thinking process. Putting aside the small of her back and underwear story, there was one moment that I do have to mention. When I walked out of class and then out of the building itself, I could feel the layer of cool air around me being lifted away by the heat. An infrared image came to mind with blue mist emanating from my body in a sea of red and orange. In my mind that would make for a great animated short film. A good part of Wednesday night into Thursday morning at work was spent under the influence of a self-induced caffeine high, which is something that I seldom do. I didn't want to repeat that so I tried to sleep late this afternoon and failed in my attempt. Instead of sleeping I watched four or five episodes of The X-Files waiting to get tired, but I never did.
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