All right, switching to nights, the work aspect of it, isn't too bad. It's slower. There's more time to get things done. It's a much more social environment than regular daytime shifts.
The living life after work hours is more difficult. I simply just need more sleep. More undisturbed sleep, I should say. Even though I am able to sleep a total of 7 hours a day, it's in spurts, and not just 7 hours straight. I'm supposed to be sleeping right now, and damned if I can convince my brain that it's bedtime. It's not the lightness of the room either, that's doing it to me. It's the noise level. Hearing certain things like buses, televisions, and construction obviously is something I did not consider to be an issue in remaining asleep. I know things are going to work out eventually.
I know that not everybody has the same working schedule. That's the reason why we are there 24 hours, but I'm pretty sure that the reason why most of the calls we receive between the hours of 2-4:30am are not from workers on their breaks, but from the drunk and disoriented. It makes for some interesting, and frustrating conversation. The most amusing moment of the night? One of my calls taken around 5:00am had me rolling: I could hear a rooster in the background crowing loudly and repetitively. I'm that much of a city girl where I've never actually heard a live rooster do it's job. I've only heard it on television or in the movies.