Graveyard Shifts and Flying Don't Mix

After 3 weeks off I returned to the skies today, and made a very simple discovery. I learned that flying the day after working the 3rd shift at work is NOT a good idea. Who would have thought that exhaustion would affect your mental capacity to learn in the turbulent, cramped cockpit of a Cessna.

Now before anybody starts yelling at me for compromising the safety of the flight, understand that I am differentiating between my ability to fly, and my ability to learn while I am flying. At no point was I not in complete control of the plane, I just found that with the hood over my head and the plane bouncing around, trying to retain all of the new information my instructor was feeding me was just not happening.

Live and Learn I guess, now back to flying on my days off until I can get myself out of this graveyard shift!