Tick tock, Clarice...

[Note: this is from last week]

I sit in my office [eating dinner without the aid of cutlery].¹

Little bit tired. Little bit wired.

I was in Brussels last weekend.

Friday : Got to sleep at about 0400. Woke up at 1200ish.

Saturday : Went of to the land of Nod at 0400ish. Got up 1300ish.

Sunday : Took the 0430ish slumber train to snoozeville. Got taxi from house at 0800.

Monday : My brain waves [presumably] dropped to the theta bandwidth at 2030. Woke up 1000ish.

Dé Mhairt [I did something to my keyboard, it won't let me use fadas now...]: Thit mé i mo choladh timpeall leathuair tar eis a ceathar. D'éirigh mé timpeall a haon déag.

Wednesday : I drifted off to Lalaland in the ephemeral moments between 2330ish and 0000ish. Ascended from the murky depths of lake Slumber at 0630.

Thursday : [At a loss for further descriptions of falling to sleep] at 0430ish. Gave a waking stretch at 1330.

I have been consistently going to sleep around 0000 and wake up at 0630 for training... Clearly my sleeping patterns were all over the place this week. I blame Brussels. 3 days of late/early sleep times. I am pretty sure I have given myself artificial jet lag.

My Circadian Rhythm (CR) has taken a gory beating. Hopefully I can set things back to normal over the weekend.²

If one peruses the link for CR, one will note one of the methods for monitoring the aforementioned process [I think it is a process as opposed to a phenomenon] is logging the core body temperature. Rectally.

"people must remain awake but calm and semi-reclined in near darkness while their rectal temperatures are taken continuously"

2 of 3 requirements isn't bad.

I feel sorry for the people who were test subjects for this technique seeing as Benloucif et al in Chicago found strong evidence that melatonin metabolite concentrations are more reliable for characterising CR.

¹See Yummy Science
²Got up this morning no problem!