What time do you wake up?

[Scepticalscribe]

Hehe, after those 5 minutes it might as well be bagpipes!

Summer time, - those summer mornings in June or early July, when the sun rises very, very early indeed, very, very early in the morning, sometimes, there are those early morning road works to contend with……..because the road is blessedly empty and free from obstructions and the day is already bright. Ideal, in fact, for such works.

You know the ones: You have snuck home at - say 4.a.m. to a silent house, although the sun is already above the horizon and the birds are idiotically chirruping the dawn chorus, their silly beaks ablaze with noisy wild happiness, yet, you still manage to sneak into the house, avoid awakening anyone when you inserted your key (with a meticulous yet inexplicable mastery of hand-eye co-ordination considering your state of cheerful inebriation), creep carefully upstairs, horrified at how full of life-affirming light it is, carefully avoiding the creaking step second from the top, and crawl into bed, the detail of undressing left until later.

And then, less than two or three hours later, some idiot from the local authority, replete with appropriate paperwork, decides to set off a pneumatic drill doing municipal works For The Greater Good on your road, and the stupid birds are still singing their little hearts out.

You turn over in your bed, murder in your heart, willing a most unfair death to all birds, and a violent demise to all municipal workers. Even in your curmudgeonly state, you realise what an illogical, irrational and unfair stance this is, especially given your vocal advocacy for and expressions of support for the need for Public Policy to be Designed With The Public Good In Mind when you are awake, and alert, and…….less under the influence of the joys of the products of the grape and the grain.

But - even decades later, reminiscing about such things - you do recall that no alarm clock was ever quite as brutally effective as that of the early morning municipal workers on a sunny June morning - was June ever so horrible save in blissful memory? - with their pneumatic drills…...

 

[mobilehaathi]

Summer time, - those summer mornings in June or early July, when the sun rises very, very early indeed, very, very early in the morning, sometimes, there are those early morning road works to contend with……..

You know the ones: You have snuck home at - say 4.a.m. to a silent house, although the sun is already above the horizon and the birds are idiotically chirruping the dawn chorus, their silly beaks ablaze with noisy wild happiness, yet, you still manage to sneak into the house, avoid awakening anyone when you inserted your key (with a meticulous yet inexplicable mastery of hand-eye co-ordination considering your state of cheerful inebriation), creep carefully upstairs, horrified at how full of life-affirming light it is, carefully avoiding the creaking step second from the top, and crawl into bed, the detail of undressing left until later.

And then, less than two or three hours later, some idiot from the local authority, replete with appropriate paperwork, decides to set off a pneumatic drill doing municipal works For The Greater Good on your road, and the stupid birds are still singing their little hearts out.

You turn over in your bed, murder in your heart, willing a most unfair death to all birds, and a violent demise to all municipal workers. Even in your curmudgeonly state, you realise what an illogical, irrational and unfair stance this is, especially given your vocal expressions of the need for Public Policy to be Designed With The Public Good In Mind when you are awake, and alert, and…….less under the influence of the joys of products of the grape and the grain.

But - even decades later, reminiscing about such things - you do recall that no alarm clock was ever quite as brutally effective as that of the early morning municipal workers on a sunny June morning - was June ever so horrible save in blissful memory? - with their pneumatic drills…...

Oh, my god, I've been there. You got it. Yep.

Oh lord..

 

[arggg14]

7:00 every morning. Don't even set my alarm anymore..

 

[Fzang]

Wish I could wake up at 7, but my brain is often completely non-functional until it's past 10.

Writing assignments usually has the most progress between 1 and 3 AM.

Sigh. It's hard to be in an early-bird-world.

 

[waynerbbx]

I usually get up at 7, but I'm going to be moving a little farther away from work soon. Might have start getting up a lot earlier, cause it's a trafficy road.

 

[Renzatic]

Wish I could wake up at 7, but my brain is often completely non-functional until it's past 10.

You and me both. I'm a naturally a night owl. Have been since I was in the crib. The only reason why I wake up as early as 8-9 AM is because that's when everyone else is up and functioning.

Not that it does me any good. I'm practically incapable of stringing together a series of coherent thoughts before noon.

 

[Solomani]

I wake up about 6 seconds after my first sip of Starbucks coffee.

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You and me both. I'm a naturally a night owl. Have been since I was in the crib. The only reason why I wake up as early as 8-9 AM is because that's when everyone else is up and functioning.

Not that it does me any good. I'm practically incapable of stringing together a series of coherent thoughts before noon.

Then why not go for a night shift job like I did? I've been nocturnal since my college days (when all-nighters and cramming for midterms were mandatory). Working the night shift tends to pay better in most cases (night shift differential). You sleep in through the mornings, you wake up in the mid afternoon.

The only sucky thing is that social life suffers a bit, but then I've made some fellow night-shift (nocturnal) friends as well.

 

[Renzatic]

Then why not go for a night shift job like I did? I've been nocturnal since my college days (when all-nighters and cramming for midterms were mandatory). Working the night shift tends to pay better in most cases (night shift differential). You sleep in through the mornings, you wake up in the mid afternoon.

The only sucky thing is that social life suffers a bit, but then I've made some fellow night-shift (nocturnal) friends as well.

I used to do that when I was younger. Unfortunately, I don't have that same luxury these days. I'm involved in two home grown businesses, one of which requires me to interact with the public while the public's out and about. I have to get up that early to be able to do my job.

 

[Fzang]

Then why not go for a night shift job like I did?

Except for the inconvenience of locks and the institution closing the doors for the night, in natural science you can come and go to the lab pretty much whenever you want, as long as you accomplish something at the end of the term. That's pretty nice.

Gets a bit lonely sometimes, though. And inconvenient, when you want to ask someone "hey where'd you put the... oh, it's 1 AM".

Really wish I could get some kind of consultant job afterwards, though. Sick of the lab.