Grey

The weather today is making me sleepy.  I'm taking my lunch break at work, and I'm realizing that when the sun has been out I feel energized, but when it goes back behind the clouds, I get super tired.  It's either the weather, or the fact that I haven't been sleeping much for the past few nights.  While Peter was in California, I was getting up early after late nights to make sure that I could Skype him before he went to bed.  Last night I stayed up later than I should have (for no reason at all), and was really dragging when my alarm went off this morning.  I'm trying to keep Real Job Hours here rather than Grad Student Hours - not going in too late or staying too late - finishing work at home rather than staying in the office for hours, but I'm going to have to get adjusted in terms of sleep.  I either need to get used to 6 hours, or sleep more.  

In other Real Job news, I've also been trying to wear Real Job Clothes, which is going pretty well so far.  It seems like ~ half of the people wear Real Job Clothes and the other half wear sort of ... Academic clothes.  I've actually found that wearing my RJC makes me feel more productive during the day.  I also feel like I have to wear these clothes because I am pretty sure I'm one of the youngest post-docs and I get asked regularly by people if I'm a new research assistant (typically undergrads, or people who just graduated from undergrad).  So far, it's definitely a case of "fake it 'til you make it," since I still feel sort of ridiculous dressing like a grown up everyday ...