AUTHOR: J DATE: 3:06:00 AM ----- BODY: Im under the impression lately... that I go through sleep phases... or maybe its sleep moods... or something. For the longest time... Ive always had odd sleeping habits. I never get the same amount of sleep from day to day... even when I had a job. Some days I would go to sleep at a respectable time... and get, what many consider, a normal amount of sleep. Some days I wouldnt go to bed till the wee hours of the morning, even when I had to work the next day (ah the good ol days)... thus getting around 4 hours or less of sleep. Now this wasnt because of any deadlines or anything pressing... I just wouldnt go to sleep. This scenario is quite common for me. Ever since the lay-off though... Ive had an added bit of odd sleeping habits. I really noticed it around the time I was spending the wee hours of the morning playing Final Fantasy X... that god forsaken, yet intoxicating game. Id still get regular hours of sleep... but I had the time of day mixed up. Id play that damn game till around 7 or 8 in the morning... then go to sleep, and get up ranging from 11am to 3 in the afternoon. Even after finishing that game... I stayed with those hours of sleep, perhaps cause I was so used to it. After a little while I went back to going to sleep at a normal time... and getting my 4 to 7 hours of sleep. Again though back to my subject of sleep phases... lately Ive reverted back to my FFX sleeping habits. No good reason for it really... Id like to blame it on my recently acquired copy of GTA: Vice City, but I dont think thats it. Cant explain it... but Im sure in a couple weeks, I'll go back to something approaching normal. Course... till a few weeks after that, when I'll just go back again. Endless cycle... ugh.

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