Braindead @ sunrise: The life of a nightshift clerk

Sunrise from the wrong end of the day is an interesting phenomena: a combination of midnight tired and early morning cheer; an orange juice at midnight or a beer for breakfast. It confounds societal time slots. For a night on the town sunrise can add spice to the end of the night, a sign that you vanquished the black space of night, to the early riser it can act as a stimulant to push you into the day. But to the night worker sunrise is sunset: not quite the end of the but time to settle down with a beer and relax with the morning's traffic and a nearly useless weather report. Then the weekend comes and it's not the staying up that's difficult, it's the going to bed or getting up early enough to meet your friends for lunch. Suddenly a beer in the morning is fine but anything before three is a sign of real alcoholism taking hold. Or maybe that doesn't matter anymore.