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penfield"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."
- Charles Caleb Colton
What does it mean to be a "morning person" or a "night person"? Does a person have to be one or the other?
I could be considered a night person, since I tend not to go to bed until near midnight. I am generally awake and alert well until the time I decide to hit the sack. In fact, I usually have to drag myself to bed rather than watch a half-hour more of TV, or read another chapter of a book, or play one more game of Madden football on my PlayStation.
But the term "night person" carries the implication the the person likes the nightlife, likes to boogie, etc. As a rule, I dislike the nightlife, disdain nightspots and detest nightclubs. It is not a social time of the day for me, but rather a time for relaxation and reflection.
So maybe I'm a morning person. I normally have no problem getting up when my alarm goes off; I see it as a matter of will rather than a matter of physical fortitude. And once I'm up, I'm up. My morning routine of shower-shave-breakfast-toothbrush-dress-depart, once activated, is unstoppable.
But then again, "morning person" connotes someone who is naturally very cheery and chipper in the morning, which I am not. I am rarely very happy to get out of bed and start my day. I like sleep just as much as the next person. I just can't escape the inevitability of the day, and I figure that I might as well just get on with it.
In fact, I often have to bribe myself with the thought that if I just get up in the morning and go to work, I can go back to sleep as soon as I get home. Of course, this never happens, because once I'm home at the end of the day, I want to stay up.
The end result is that I'm never particularly well-rested and I'm never particularly chipper. I think that I could pull off a siesta somewhere around 2:30 in the afternoon, but I suspect my boss might have an objection to that. He seems to rise early and turn in late, too.
- Charles Caleb Colton
What does it mean to be a "morning person" or a "night person"? Does a person have to be one or the other?
I could be considered a night person, since I tend not to go to bed until near midnight. I am generally awake and alert well until the time I decide to hit the sack. In fact, I usually have to drag myself to bed rather than watch a half-hour more of TV, or read another chapter of a book, or play one more game of Madden football on my PlayStation.
But the term "night person" carries the implication the the person likes the nightlife, likes to boogie, etc. As a rule, I dislike the nightlife, disdain nightspots and detest nightclubs. It is not a social time of the day for me, but rather a time for relaxation and reflection.
So maybe I'm a morning person. I normally have no problem getting up when my alarm goes off; I see it as a matter of will rather than a matter of physical fortitude. And once I'm up, I'm up. My morning routine of shower-shave-breakfast-toothbrush-dress-depart, once activated, is unstoppable.
But then again, "morning person" connotes someone who is naturally very cheery and chipper in the morning, which I am not. I am rarely very happy to get out of bed and start my day. I like sleep just as much as the next person. I just can't escape the inevitability of the day, and I figure that I might as well just get on with it.
In fact, I often have to bribe myself with the thought that if I just get up in the morning and go to work, I can go back to sleep as soon as I get home. Of course, this never happens, because once I'm home at the end of the day, I want to stay up.
The end result is that I'm never particularly well-rested and I'm never particularly chipper. I think that I could pull off a siesta somewhere around 2:30 in the afternoon, but I suspect my boss might have an objection to that. He seems to rise early and turn in late, too.
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Date: 2008-12-05 05:00 am (UTC)Mine is beating a circadian rhythm into me.
Plus, nothing gets you out of bed after a mere 6 hours sleep than a paw on your face and the threat of poop on your rug.
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Date: 2008-12-10 05:05 am (UTC)Getting a puppy would not be good for me or the puppy. Even if I liked dogs, I am allergic to the little fuckers.