REPOSTED from my Facebook where I post daily trivia w/ a weather report:

Today's trivia isn't trivia at all.. it's a quote that comes from an article by Roslyn James at http://tinyurl.com/c4bbwm about Naturally Nocturnal people.

I've always joked that I must have been a raccoon or jungle cat in a past life, bucause night and dark feel so natural to me. We also joke that I'm part vampire because the daylight hurts my eyes! It does, really, but such is life. My house is like a cave, and I like it like that. This is a battle I have fought my whole life, and it's really wreaked havok w/ a 'normal' life too. I don't care what ANYBODY says about you being able to reset your biological clocks, I think some things are just natural!

I have been doing SO GOOD since I got back from Michian. Sleeping at night and awake in the mornings with 'normal' people.  Of course I *can* do that... When I was active duty Air Force I got up at insanely early hours to allow for "me" time to stary my day work started at 0700. I do have to make a conscious efort however, every single day to stay on that schedule, and it takes me 3-5 days to adjust. Therefore it's not a habit, and it never becomes a habit, it's a schedule. It only takes one single day to throw me off... a few days ago I stayed up al nigh for some reason and here I am, slipped riht back into what *I* consider comfortable and naturl... goind to bed around 6am and getting up around noon.  THat's NOT conducive to trying to find a job though!!! SO *sigh* it's back to sleep aids and a clock tonight.

The article is dead on when it says "Some nocturnal people believe there is something wrong with them. In an attempt to conform to a daytime society, many nocturnals will try to reset their circadian rhythm. The first thing they try is strict adherence to a daytime schedule."

Here are a few other things I found online, the validity of every resource should be further researched; never accept just one source as gospel.  Most of these links are personal experiences, but I would love to find some more actual facts and true statistics to sink my proverbial teeth into.

-  One QnA on Answers.Yahoo http://tinyurl.com/ar4o9z
-  No Facts to be found on AnswerBag, but insteresting comments http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/381926
-  The nocturnal workers' thread - Again, no facts or science backing it up, but at least I know I'm not alone http://tinyurl.com/cds8fg
-  More discussion in the form of testimonials and opinions on FertileThoughts.com http://tinyurl.com/d9ug4k
-  More discussion over at StevePavlina.com http://tinyurl.com/d5jqys
-  And even more discussion over at 43Things.com http://tinyurl.com/cjsjyd

Great... so... one news article and a bunch of opinions... I'd like some real scientific data... if you know of any... point me towards it please.