Yeah, my current job is also a "this has to work all the time" setup,
but I'm only affected by a fraction of it.  That may be because I'm
relatively new, so when things go wrong they know I can't do much
about it.  This week was special because my team lead, who has been at
this company for years and knows everything about everything, is on
vacation out of the country.  

On the other hand, because of this excitement, I have gotten to know a
lot of my coworkers much better, and I've learned a lot about
subsystems I would normally just ask my team lead to deal with.  So
it's been very good for me.  My body just doesn't know that.

Oh!  Not a bad idea.  I'm not a big fan of headphones in bed, though.
I'll think about that.

I tend to go for loud and energetic music, rather than relaxing.
Relaxing music bores me, unfortunately.
   

Yeah, it's definitely hard for a company to order anything healthy and
low GI (or is that high GI? I can never remember) in those quantities.
I do appreciate the fact that they ordered us food, and even had
vegetarian etc. options (I'm not vegetarian but it's important to me
that we have options for those who are).

And I can't blame the company for the foods I selected out of what
was offered. I went particularly nuts on the Chinese "buffet line."
Bad me!

Facing the same problem, I occasionally look shocked and inquire why
they can't think of a continent other than Europe. Now, I'm not sure
I'd really want the breakfast of an Antarctic penguin, but I can think
of a reasonable number of quite acceptable Asian and Latin American
ones.

Yeah, I do appreciate that they are keeping us fed, even if I'm not
thrilled with the particulars (today they're ordering pizza for lunch.
I have a dr's appt for my stomach around then, so I think I'll get a
sandwich from a local deli instead).

So far I have been very happy with my treatment by this company.  When
I have to work crazy hours, which hasn't been often, they provide
food.  They have other benefits, too, like you can sign up for chair
massages every few weeks, and one of the massage therapists leads a 20
minute stretching class every Tuesday.  Those 20 minutes mean the
world to me.

Our environment is particularly difficult.  We have one guy with 7ish
years experience who knows just about everything, one who has I think
less than two years but knows a lot, and then the rest of us have been
there a year or less -- two only a couple of months.  We've had a lot
of turnover for a variety of reasons in the last year, so we went from
a team with a lot of members who were experienced not just in what we
do but what the whole company does to almost entirely newbies.

And we're in a business where solutions are often expected in minutes,
and our team is core to that happening.

Ah well.  Today is actually a holiday (go go market holidays!) for me,
so I'm trying to come down from the "emergency mode" I was in through
last night.  Last night it was hard for me to get to sleep because in
my brain I was still worried about being needed for something.  I'm
the point of contact for the team this week, so if something comes up,
I will need to be there to resolve it, regardless of whether it's a
holiday or a weekend.

A lot of good came out of this week.  With the experienced guy on
vacation, all of us were forced to get out of our comfort zones
(especially me, as point of contact!).  The emergency situation caused
me to interact with a lot of key people in the company with whom I'd
never had an opportunity to work.  Now I know them by face and name,
and would feel much more comfortable talking to them in the future.
And if I can just remember a fraction of what I was doing this week,
I'll have made great strides in what I know how to do for the company.