Overnight

One of the many ways I'm broken: I like the nighttime.

My brain turns on around ten o'clock and it keeps running circles until about three in the morning. Even when I'm most tired, I find myself unable to fall asleep before midnight. I write best during these times. It also helps that no one's around to watch me bawl at my computer or make faces or laugh at something I so wittily came up with.

We're at a stage at work where we have to do some overnight shifts to accomplish various tasks. I had been secretly praying for the opportunity to work them. So when my GM called me into the office two weeks ago and asked me to work the overnights he had in mind, I almost yelled, "THANK YOU." I love overnights. Not only am I most alert during that time, but there aren't any distractions. Well, not many. There's always at least two other people with me on an overnight shift. But it tends to be that the people I work with are just as focused on their tasks as I am on mine. So I'm rather thankful for the opportunity.

Also, this kind of helps me think.

See, as I'm running amuck getting stuff done, I normally have my headphones in. I listen to my music and I go through the motions of what I need to do. Though my body is very present in what I'm doing, my brain wanders off into my imagination and pulls images and ideas and stories to the forefront of reality. I wind up getting sucked into my creative mindset and essentially do a lot of brainstorming. I can't physically write stuff down during these overnights. But nothing's stopping me from thinking.

I got to work one overnight shift this week and I did a lot of adventuring in my mind. And we also sang along with Bohemian Rhapsody. That was fantastic. Oh, and I also started a new tradition - if you work an overnight at our store, you will go out to breakfast the following morning. Why would we do this, you may ask? Because it's five in the AM and by that time you're hungry! And, well, on Tuesday when I went in, I told my fellow coworkers it was my treat. They're the ones who decided it was now tradition.

I definitely am not complaining.

Adventure well my fellow warriors. Whatever it is that you've got set in your heart to tackle today, do it bravely! Go exploring. Take a road trip. Think aloud. Don't be afraid to break boundaries and push past limits. Make it your goal to become boundless and limitless. Go and be.

Go and do.

Currently Editing: Unity
Currently Reading: Brisinger by Christopher Paolini
Currently Listening to: "Paperman" by Christophe Beck (I'm convinced his mom just forgot to put an 'r' at the end of his first name and he just ran with it.)