Early bird drinks too much coffee

There's a strange benefit in coming back to Finland from Japan - waking up at 5am.

Yes, you read right. A benefit.

There are a few things to be said about my mornings. First, I find the need to get up when the alarm rings absolutely hateful. I think people should be allowed to sleep as long as they naturally would. Second, due to the first point I shouldn't be talked to during the first half an hour after I get up - the less social interaction there is included in my early mornings the better. And third, in spite of the above mornings are, when I manage to get up and not murder anyone in the process of waking, the most productive time for me there is in terms of independent working like writing things. For some reason writing after 2pm seems to be at least twice as hard as writing before noon.

This often results to either 1) waking up late and not getting enough things done or 2) waking early with the alarm around 7am but having to do the waking-up-process downstairs at the same time that the rest of the family is hanging in the kitchen and in the bathroom.

So, as long as my head thinks it is still in Tokyo I can wake up fully rested around 5am (as my body thinks it is already noon and time to wake), and get my coffee and breakfast while others are still sleeping. This results in a quiet and enjoyable waking up -process (and no bodies), plus I get more things done than I'd ever dare to hope.

Today, for example, I got up around 4.30am and started working around 5am. The only downside is that given my tendency to continously drink coffee while working I manage to drink quite a big quantity of it by 2pm... I usually don't get the symptoms from caffeine overdose, but today I started to feel the slight tremors and a somewhat racier heartbeat than that which I'm used into. Time to switch to tea, maybe? Also, I tend to fall asleep around 8pm if only possible, which is fine by me but makes social life somewhat harder, as most of my friends tend to live according a very different rhytm than the one my body tries to pull off at the moment.

I'm aware that I should start to get back to the "norm". I know it will probably happen somewhere over the weekend... Or then my body will be found somewhere strangled, and my killer will get the "Get out of Jail Free" -card for explaining: "But officer, you see, it was 5am on a sunday morning and she JUST WOULDN'T SHUT UP AND SLEEP!"