AfterLunch = Eternity

I work a wide variety of shifts, with start times as early as 4 a.m. and as late as 3 p.m., but I always think of my midshift break as "lunch" whether it occurs at 8 a.m. or 7 p.m. or any time in between. The problem comes in the portion of the day I like to call AfterLunch. This segment of my day seems to last for an eternity. Not that I'm being all that productive in this little pocket of purgatory, quite the opposite. It seems like any task I undertake is doomed to be interrupted to the point of negative progress. Plus, all time measuring instruments seem to slow down or reverse. If it feels, subjectively, like I've spent 15 minutes answering questions about someone else's job or department, then the clock will tell me that only 3 minutes have passed.