Living in Thailand, and with no job and few responsibilities to worry about, I have slipped into a fairly unusual routine compared to most human beings.
I get up between 2.30 & 4 a.m, Usually just after 3. I love this time of day- it is quiet and cool. Not even any dogs barking, rarely a vehicle to be heard, no yammering Thai soap opera playing in the Living room. Only me and the dogs for company (but they are asleep again).
In about another hour, the Village loudspeakers will come on. I have no idea what they drone on about (I used to think it was a Muslim thing, but not so) but this heralds the approach of dawn. With dawn, I make another coffee. First decision of the day- shall I do a morning swim before the sun is over the wall, or a late afternoon swim which might not happen if I get on the piss again? I don't like swimming when the sun is overhead.
I don't do breakfast, but get hungry around 11ish usually. Lunch happens between 11am and 1pm. If it's a later version, we often go out for a bite. I eat lunch out more often than dinner these days.
After lunch, I often start to feel a bit tired- Siesta time. Siesta is a bit of a variable- it generally starts between 1 and 3.30 pm. Lasts about two hours, although if I get on the piss over lunch it might not happen at all. It's the hottest time of day anyway- good time for a kip.
Late afternoon early evening is drinking time, usually down the local shop. A reasonably typical session might start around 5-6, finish 9pm or so. Then home, check whats going on in TD world, scoff down some dinner at the computer, and to bed. It's unusual these days for me to be drinking after 10pm, although it does happen sometimes. Thats the benefit of having no routine- you can vary as the mood takes you. Sometimes I'm in bed around nine, occasionally I don't go to bed until after dawn.
One unusual, and quite delightful, variation to the routine is the beer breakfast. This takes place down the local shop- if my mate Eddy has been on one of his all-nighters again he'll usually give me a call, or other times I just do it off my own bat. The shop opens at 6am. If you get there by 7, you see the monks come by collecting their alms- there is always this wizened old lady there giving them food, every morning, and a few others too. You see the Thai getting up and going about their daily routine- School, work and so on. The shop is busy early morning, a great time to witness village life. It's nice and cool too, at least until about 9 when the sun gets fiercer. I enjoy my BB's- think I'll do one this morning. If it's a long beer breakfast (it happens) I generally forsake the evening session. Gotta have some self control.
So thats my 'Routine' as it has evolved with no foreign influence besides the sun and moon.
Has anyone else evolved their own biological clock, or do you stick to the traditional get up in the morning, go to bed late evening sort of thing?