As previously mentioned, I will have to switch my content management system away from Blogger soon. Now there’s a specific date: May 1. That’s not much time to migrate over ten years of content. Fortunately I only have to jump through a half-dozen hoops to get the content into WordPress, the new system I’ve chosen.
So now I’m more involved than I had hoped with the minutia of redesigning and rebuilding Hidden City. Progress has been made — I’ve imported the first volume already (all 1800+ posts), the basic design is in place — but it’s come with an odd (and probably unrelated) side effect. My brain is behaving as though it’s in New Zealand.
I go to sleep at a normal time. I set my alarm to get up at a normal time. I haven’t changed my caffeine intake at all. My routine — such as it is — hasn’t changed for months. But for some reason my brain doesn’t really start to function properly until 5-6:00pm, and then it runs constantly until 5-6::00am. I’m sleeping until noon on many days, something I haven’t done since high school.
Lacking a day job it doesn’t affect me all that much, but it is still both troubling and inconvenient. By the time I’m fully functional it’s almost time for stores to close. It’s harder to make phone calls and run errands. I feel as tough I’m operating a quarter-turn to the right of reality. What has caused this change?
There’s little point in worrying about it, though. I’ll just take what steps I can to correct it, and wait for my body to sort itself out. In the interim, I have thousands more posts to import, update, and tag before I can formally launch Hidden City, Volume Four.
