Adjustments to be made

I've been getting up early for the last term or so, around 5. When I start at Zil I'll be arriving there at 6 to start with, so if I'm to keep my exercise going then I'll likely need to be up around 4:30...The challenge which has been that I am yet to make a serious inroad into my bedtime and, until very recently have still been up till after 10:30/11 on a regular basis and creating a serious sleep deficit and intensified my caffeine dependency.

I've been doing anywhere up to 5 strong coffees/day. My coffee of choice is the short macc, to keep my milk intake to a minimum. Now anything else seems milky and diluted.

I need to be hitting the sack earlier, by around 9 if I'm to get a decent night's shuteye and be up, fresh and ready for the day.

Oh yeah...my mental state vis-a-vis this change of vocation is starting to affect my relationship with some of my colleagues at work - well, some of my bosses anyway. One in particular, our school's registrar nearly got a mouthful from me yesterday. "You can take thins job and ..." understandable, as I well know that when one's menatl bags are packed and ready to go, everything else (in the words of Chuck Palahniuk) "tends to have the volume turned right down" and I find myself not overly concerned with the (now seemingly) petty demands and idiosyncrasies of the people whose job it is to make the education sept or a certain school run in anything less than a shambolic fashion... LOL...

Keep it tight, Mike! Keep it tight!