No Sleep for a Long Sun

Two days in and Whitehorse seems like a pretty cool spot. My biggest obstacle so far is the daylight. That hardly seems to end. It's only May.

There's already 19hrs of daylight. I typically sleep pretty close to the sun's daylight cycle, so this super-extended daylight is wreaking havoc with my sleeping patterns. I'm able to fall asleep easily enough (never a problem as you have discovered if you've ever tried to watch a movie with me...) but it's the staying asleep that isn't working so well. My body must sense the light and thinks it's time to wake up. I was up last night at 11pm. Here's the daylight situation at about 11:15pm:

Wild. It took a few hours to get back to sleep. I don't feel too bad today but I'm sure I'll be a disaster by tomorrow if this keeps up. I can't even imagine what it's going to be like in the middle of summer when the sun hardly takes a rest!

I'm hoping to have power in the apartment when I get there tonight. Cooking on a camping stove is starting to lose it's allure. I'm craving baking- bread, cookies or even just regular meals that would take hours on a camp stove. I'm also looking forward to having a radio on. I miss my daily dose of CBC. My laptop has proved really handy for watching DVDs that I've signed out of the library (I love this service), but it doesn't fill the radio void. And since I don't have an internet connection in the apartment (no scamming wireless options for me), I also can't stream online radio.

I'll have to come up with a good option for blacking out the window in the bedroom. Maybe another Salvation Army run for a good thick blanket that I could hang. Ironic that I'm waiting for power to have lights in one room and looking for ways to keep light out in the other room. So hard to please.

I'll keep you posted how I make out with operation Blackout (both sides of it) :)