Well, I keep pretty much daytime hours because of my day job. But it's really hard to force myself to shut everything down and go to bed at midnight so I can get up at 6:30 and go to the gym and then to work.

At my last job I was the night editor for the paper and never got off work until midnight, often not until 1 a.m. and that was a much, much more natural rhythm for me. Got in bed at 3 a.m. and woke up about 10 a.m.

Then when I moved here and started a job that begins around 9 a.m. it took MONTHS to adjust.

But I'm not convinced that it IS just lifestyle, because many musicians don't actually gig. They/we have daytime jobs just like everyone else. When we get together on Saturday, for instance, we don't get together during the day. We meet at "8 p.m." which actually ends up being more 9 p.m., then noodle around a bit and sit and visit and drink a beer and then around 10 p.m. start making music and finally around midnight, we're cookin'. And these jams don't end before 2 a.m. -- often we sit around shooting the breeze for a while after the instruments have all been put away.

It just seems as though nighttime is more conducive to focusing on the music.

WW