“RE: A Sense of Family”

On 12/29/2006, Sean McMains said:

>Hey, that's exciting! Congrats on the getting-a-baby-around-the-house -- I
>hope that's as much as joy as expected for you and C. Very cool indeed.

We're looking forward to helping Mike and Shannon *almost* as much as having the baby.

Yeah, the baby's pretty exciting. The "not knowing what's going to happen" is pretty exciting, too. ;-)

>P.S. My understanding is that our circadian cycles tend to default to 23
>hours,

If Flip still reads this stuff, I'm expecting him to speak up here. I believe he has told me a couple of times that our circadian cycles tend to be > 24 hours, not less. (And he once pointed me to an article about a scientific study that showed the same.)

::shrug::

Flip, you still here?

>so if one has freedom to go to bed and get up when one wants, one tends
>to keep doing so earlier. I've noticed this a lot more in myself as I've hit
>mid-30s than I did earlier.

This was a very sudden change. I used to go to sleep "sometime between 9 and midnight", then for months on end I was stuck in this 2-3am rut. Now I'm at a pretty firm 10-11 pm.

In other words, I don't think this particular change is related to circadian rhythm. If I had gradually backed out of that (very unhealthy) late-to-bed phase, then I'd be more inclined to agree.

Seth