A Personal Journey into the world of Polyphasic Sleep

My midnight nap goes ok. I oversleep a bit – maybe 2 hours. This would worry me, but the headache I’ve had since my beer at the comedy club is slightly more annoying. I take some advil with more water, and hope for the best. I nap at 4 am again, but just briefly, probably due to the oversleep plus mild headache still. Then, things turn around. I get my first “Sam is up at all hours, so he won’t mind a late-night phone call”! Stephanie and Dina are home after Get Freaky and at 5 AM are still entertaining themselves when they call me for additional entertainment. After doing my best phone dance I head over there in my pajamas and document the hilarity. They have some air-brush tattoos and have pasted a big set of lips onto dina’s cell phone. I got some good pix and even a 1-minute video of some strange echoing cell-phone interactions. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5EESb_ftoE

By 8 am the kids have calmed down and I curl up for a nap on the couch. I don’t set an alarm, but luckily awaken 35 minutes later. After moving to the living room so as not to disturb S&D, I catch up on my blog a bit, and then make plans to meet Ann-Marie to go for a walk at Crissy Field. She wanted to go for a short run, but settles for the walk as I am not quite ready to push myself yet. It is overcast, but a pleasant enough day for a walk. We walk to the point under the Golden Gate Bridge and check out the surfers riding the waves in for a while, and then head back. We decide lunch is in order, and even though it pushes my noon nap back, we have a very tasty meal at the BlueJay Cafe on Divisadero. I make it home and nap at 1 PM. When I get up, Doug is preparing to watch the Final Four, which makes for good distractions while I catch up on some research. Lindsay almost makes it over to watch the first half with us, but as usual life intercedes.

I hit my 4 PM nap on the button, and wake up in time to see Florida pull away from upstarts George Mason in the last 10 minutes of the game. Then Mary comes to pick me up for our 24-hour getaway for Sean’s birthday. Sean, Lo, and Mary and myself head down to Costanoa, a sweet little cabin-camping site on the coast right by Año Nuevo where the elephant seals occupy the beaches. It’s a relaxing time for walks, banter, some board games, James Bond in the background, and a bit of hot-tubbing. My naps are somewhat crunched, with my 8 PM being pushed til 9+, and then my midnight also being a bit late. I take that nap on the couch in the gaming lodge, right before we head to the hot tub at 2 AM.