I think I'm finally getting the hang of this, as is my pool team. I didn't get out of work until 8:45 last night since I was working on a project that if I didn't finish, someone would have to start from scratch for the third time (I was the second person to work on it after the first gave up). I walked in, said hi, then had to take a good 30 minutes just to chill and relax before I could mentally make the shift to bar friendliness. By an hour in I had my second wind and was good to go, even though I didn't play, but I'm realizing how much I need that time after work, before going out, to be my old self, since I basically am two different people with completely different focuses, each equally honest to myself and I equally enjoy each facet of my personality, but they're not compatible in one place.

I walked home and stayed up until 2 am, just watching movies, sewing, and chilling, then went to bed. And woke up 13 hours later :). Thank God for this day off during the week; it makes a gigantic difference to my energy level and capacity to deal with "normal" things. Plus I have the time to run errands I normally couldn't complete, given my strange work schedule, so I spent the intervening time taking care of necessaries, especially since I'm going home on Saturday for one aunt's birthday, and the Saturday afterward for my other aunt's birthday. This means I'll be running around non-stop, and will need this Tuesday off more than ever as the weather turns colder and I settle more into the job. There are still things to be dealt with with my RNR, since I haven't heard from him or spoken to him since last Thursday, but that will hold until whenever I see him again. I know where I stand on it, and what I'll put up with, and that's good enough.