singing the body clock blues

I slept really badly last night. Well actually I slept really well, and woke up feeling that really heavy feeling as a result, but I didn't get to sleep until about 1.30am. Last night I was just really wired for some reason - maybe because yesterday was an exercise free day (although I did work to and from work). I had planned this week to start trying to re-set my body clock, because currently I seem to think that midnight is bed time. I thought I could try re-setting by half an hour every week, but so far things aren't going well. Maybe it is daylight savings, but these days I don't even start getting tired until about 1am. Sigh.

I did get more done on the Obama cross stitch, which was good. The counting for long rows is difficult though - it is so easy to get lost with large but uneven blocks of colour.

I also watched this film called Grace is Gone, which is about a man who loses his soldier wife in Iraq. John Cusack was the lead, and does a pretty good job of playing the role without histrionics. I enjoyed the film, and I thought it was generally quite apolotical, but something about it left me a little uneasy. I think it was the extras - two of which were some sort of episodes of "This Week at the Pentagon". Anyway, if you've seen it, let me know what you think.

The plan is to make it to the pool tonight. I've definitely packed my goggles this time, thank God! I'm debating whether or not to put on sunscreen... it seems to put it on for 30 minutes in a pool at 6.30 at night (although with daylight savings it is really 5.30pm), but I've been getting a bit paranoid about skin cancer lately thanks to a nice combination of (a) getting burned twice this summer already; and (b) the scary skin cancer ads on the telly. I'm pretty moley / freckly so I'm starting to wonder if I should sign up to some sort of annual mole patrol. Dad has had quite a few small 'areas of concern' burnt off his face in the last few years, so I know I need to be careful.

Anyhoos, lots of work to do today. I'm feeling the lack of supervision at the moment (what with pretty much everyone on leave) but things are nice and quiet, so that's good.