My new career as a fitness professional aka personal trainer has me up at 3:45am on many days days to get to the gym by 5:30am to start a floor shift. What have I learned from this experience thus far? Answer: Lack of sleep makes me partially insane.
http://tinyurl.com/importanceofsleep
It has also confirmed what I already knew to be true: I dislike Time Square.
Sure, it has it's place in NY tourism and in establishing NY as one of the most extravagant and larger than life places on earth, but I, as a NY resident, have always avoided it.
Now I work at 50th and Broadway. I brave Time Square to leave work, at the peak of tourist hours, and I walk through it at 5am to get to work, in the extreme off-hours. At 3pm, I weave in, out, and around herds of standing tourists, seas walking tourist, and lines of vendors trying to sell tour bus tickets. In the wee hours of the morning, when there are few up and about even in Time Square, the stench of the area is one of the most un-fresh I have experienced in my life.
Gross.
This brings me back to sleep deprivation. Sleep is important. It improves mood, regulates appetite, provides the opportunity to have sweet dreams, makes one generally more functional and less likely to misplace keys, along with other day to day items, and it gives one energy to do all the many things that are necessary, LIKE run as fast as you can away from Time Square, at the end of a long work day.
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Congrats on the new blog (and again, new job) Laura!
ReplyDeleteI, on other hand, have been exploring the effects of long sleep interruption. I generally am able to get the necessary hours of sleep I need, but my cat simply will not allow for more than 3-4 hours of consecutive sleep before waking me with his whiny meow. The end result! Always kinda tired-ish.
Keep up the good work, and be sure to shift your bedtime accordingly!