Retirement Week 1 Update: I Sleep More
Mar. 2nd, 2026 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI've now completed my first week of retirement. (My last day at work was, unexpectedly, last Monday.) How has Week 1 gone? For various reasons, slowly. But at least I'm getting more sleep. Yay?
Seriously. Having a schedule now unconstrained by artificial things like 8am (or even 7am) meetings 5 days a week has allowed me to sleep in a lot. Where I thought I'd continue waking up at 6:45am many days— 6:45am was my standard weekday alarm for the last several years— I'm frequently sleeping in until around 9am. And that's not because I'm suddenly turning into a night owl, staying up past midnight on the regular. At least half the time I'm in bed by 10pm!
Seriously. Having a schedule now unconstrained by artificial things like 8am (or even 7am) meetings 5 days a week has allowed me to sleep in a lot. Where I thought I'd continue waking up at 6:45am many days— 6:45am was my standard weekday alarm for the last several years— I'm frequently sleeping in until around 9am. And that's not because I'm suddenly turning into a night owl, staying up past midnight on the regular. At least half the time I'm in bed by 10pm!
