Second thoughts

I have second thoughts about the changes anticipated in the previous post. Renovation of the old LJ entries is turning out to be too ungainly. Besides, I feel emotional resistance to quitting my personal uses for LJ and putting them all over to FB. What this probably means is that I will start a nature writing blog elsewhere on WordPress or Blogger.

Time shift

The new sleep routine has settled into habit. I have a problem, though: when my head hits the pillow I am so sleepy I seldom can read past 11:00. Now that I'm getting six-and-a-half or seven hours of sleep per night instead of six, it's as if my body has decided it wants more. Hopefully I can move bedtime forward to 10:30, as first intended.

Now I don't have time. This morning I realized Daylight Savings Time starts in two weeks. That means I have to start adjusting now to avert the sleep disruption I experienced last fall. Tonight I will start going to bed 20 minutes earlier and set my alarm for 5:40 a.m. Next Sunday I'll shift another 20 minutes and set the alarm for 5:20. When the clocks change on March 12 I can switch back to 6:00 and my body will only have to make one more 20-minute adjustment.