Scheduling Conflicts

Ever have that person you date that completely throws off your schedule? I was dating this guy for quite sometime who’s typical day schedule was to wake up at 1 or 2pm and go to sleep between 5 and 6am. He certainly did not have your typical 9-5 job. He would usually go into work around 10pm and get off work around 4am, but sometimes he got lucky and worked the 5pm-10pm shift. You can imagine what this meant for hanging out. Especially since my work schedule was primarily 1:30pm-11pm at the time, subsequently making my days go from around 10am-2am. Of course, when we were dating we needed to find time to see each other. That time usually came in the late night hours. In fact our first real date was him picking me up to go out for drinks around 11pm. This was obviously a relationship that revolved around bars, late night movies at home and sharing a bed together. In fact the times that we saw each other outside of a bedroom in the daylight were few and far between. I used to think that schedules and relationships like that were fleeting and that once I got older things would be different. Apparently I picked the wrong profession and continue to pick the wrong guys if I wanted my schedule to ever resemble what people in this world consider “normalcy”. In the end though, I can’t complain. Even if I find myself falling asleep (or surprisingly keeping myself awake) waiting until 4:30am when it’s finally time to have “date night” with that special someone. Although I must admit, it is a killer for the following day’s schedule.