Day 6 - Betrayed by produce

I think it's obvious. The vegetables are plotting against me, trying to get me to fail. I can't be sure exactly what their motivation is, but it's well documented that they're not trustworthy. I mean how can you trust something that "eats" sunlight?

So, once again, the 4:30 to 8:30 window has proved to be my undoing. I think I did a little better to start with (I took extra naps at 6am and 7am) but I was essentially useless the entire time. Exercising helped keep me awake from 5 to 6, but nothing I tried (games, reading, listening to music, I even tried watching a little TV) really grabbed my attention and kept me up.

I'm honestly not sure if these extra naps are helping my transition or hurting it. At the time they sure seem like a good idea though :-) They also have the nice side-effect of chewing up 20-30 minutes of the clock at a difficult time of the day.

The bright side is that I seem to have conquered my over-sleeping problem. My adaptation of Placebo's MP3 is proving quite effective at motivating me to get out of bed to shut off the infernal racket. I've learned a few tricks to adjusting the "alarm" part just enough that I don't get used to it either. All in all I'd say I'm probably a good 70-80% of the way along the path to polyphasic sleeping.