Occasionally, when talking to my friends or relatives, the topic of a thing called 'morning' will often come up. They will insist that a time between 5AM and 2PM exists, and that people are actually awake during that time. Also, they say that people eat breakfast during that time, something I find exceedingly hard to believe. After all, who would want to be up at that time of day?
In all due seriousness, the smallest thing that I can work on this semester to improve my sleep schedule and ability to get up in the morning. In middle and high school, I had my parents there to wake me up and send me protesting off to the bus. But now that I'm on my own, half a state away from my nice bed at home and my parents and my dog to drag me out of it, I have to rely on my alarm clock and myself to get out of bed on time and get to class.
Seeing how I threaten to toss the clock out the window every morning, this endeavor might be harder than I thought it would be. I would also like to take this time to say that I have yet to wake up to a good song on 102.7 FM. Now if I could find a radio station that would play something more to my liking, like Boards of Canada or Kotani Kinya, getting up would most likely be a little easier to stomach
The reason I stay up late is simple – I'm from the Internet. (I need a t-shirt with that on it, actually.) Aside from having friends overseas who are just getting in from work as I'm supposed to be going to sleep, most interesting things on the Internet happen at night. Forum discussions start to become insanely funny, leveling up in World of Warcraft becomes bearable, and lipsynching to whatever comes up on a random playlist is even more fun than ever, with the added bonus of there being no one to walk in on you with a camera. Also, I'm at my most creative late at night; half the time, I'll be sitting up gloating in my brilliance as a new character or plot point comes to me, and then end up staying up until dawn plotting or writing. Multitasking also adds to the time it takes to do things; since I'm likely to be taking part in forum discussions, playing World of Warcraft, and talking to friends all at the same time, time flies by and then I end up cursing the daylight as I go to bed at dawn.
(A random note: I think I would be a good vampire.)
But I need to work on getting up earlier for a couple reasons. For one, concentrating in class when you're thinking longingly of your nice warm bed is near impossible. For another, concentrating in class when your stomach is screaming at you because you woke up twenty minutes before class and didn't have time to get breakfast (and I've been told a few pieces of candy grabbed on the way out doesn't count, unfortunately) is completely, unimaginably impossible. Unfortunately, I haven't sat down to eat breakfast for more than two days in a row since elementary school. So aside from being too busy to eat, half the time I have no stomach for it. Still, with a little change and a more regular schedule, I could manage to pull this off.
If all else fails, I can try to hire someone to bring me a caramel frappuchino from Starbucks every morning.
January 26, 2009
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