I miss being able to stay up at all hours of the night doing what I love. But with a regular work schedule, I can't do that anymore.

I wish I could go all night doing what I love, too: sleeping. :P

IIRC, the human sleep/wake pattern is 25 days. So if you're not contrained to a schedule of any sort, you'll stay up an hour later each day.

Wikipedia says 24.3 hours... one of you lies!

Wikipedia is mostly right. The human sleep cycle is based on a relaxation oscillator with a free-run period of approximately 24.3 days (on average). However its interlinkage with the visual cortex results in a phase-locked loop which tracks the day/night cycle very accurately.

Make sure the bright morning sun can reach your eyes and you'll find your sleep cycle stabilizes.

that's probably just an average w/ a significant standard deviation, so for you personally, just look at the data: "Last week Whitaker and I stayed up until 2am, then 3am, then 4am". looks like 25 hours to me.

Talking to my almost-nearly-"too soon to say"-partner about schedules (she has an 11 year old who home-schools) about what I remember as a natural drift ... we tend to live on a 25 hour day, so we drift around the clock. Problem is that for some reason we seem to hang up without coming round, so we get rutted at, like, 5AM bedtime ... which is just toooo painful and inconvenient. My quick fix was to bite the bullet and at first opportunity to a) have a relatively easy day and evening and then b) not go to bed at 5AM, or 6AM, or even 11AM ... to swing the sked all way around (maybe with a couple of cat-naps) and hit the hay-rack at 10 or 11PM. Worst case should only come every few months.

Wikipedia is the whip. It satiates my childhood hunger for an encyclopedia set of my very own.

I could still use xcolibur when the image server was down. It was beautiful. I almost cried.