I think I'm nocturnal

Yup, that title reads correctly. I strongly believe I'm nocturnal. My body honestly doesn't fully wake up until about 3pm. Yes I'm awake and doing whatever task is at hand, but yeah. People tell me, maybe I should go to sleep earlier, and I'm like yeah that's all fine and dandy until I lay down and I hop on my laptop or start texting away. It feels almost impossible to go to sleep at an ordinary time. It's currently 335am. Yeah most of my readers are asleep at the moment.

I like the middle of the night. I like to write this late because the world seems more peaceful, less distracting. In fact when I was at Stevenson University writing my first manuscript of the Guardian Series, it was most written between the hours of 12am-5am. between those hours is where everyone within the time zone is usually asleep. It's like my mind can expand and become more creative. It's easier to dream of those futuristic worlds I write about. It's easier to come up with plots and angles when the world is asleep. Of course I can write in the day time, but it's the night I write the best.

Since I was a kid I've been like this. As a boy I never really wanted to sleep. I'd always stay up listen to music and play with my action figures. In my teens I'd sleep after school and be up writing or playing PS2 into the wee hours of the morning.

Now as an adult with a full-time job, and school, I stay up researching, and blogging, and writing and watching my more than fair share of television off of Hulu.com and Netflix. But I enjoy it honestly. Yes in the first few hours of the morning when I have to wake up it stinks, but in all honesty I get my work done, and achieve what I want to do.

To live in a city like London or NYC would be so amazing, because outside being two of my favorite cities on the planet, they never sleep like me. Maryland sleeps, Baltimore sleeps, Odenton Sleeps, this house is currently asleep, and I'm wide awake trying to convince myself that sleeping now will help make the 8:05 wake up alarm so much more bearable.

So in saying that I will cut this short... to all my nocturnal friends out there you are not alone. I'm awake too.

The Artist-