very not a morning person.

[naweiner]

i'm not a morning person. i never have been.
and now i don't have a job that i have to be up for.

however. i miss the sun.

so. i'm going to set my alarm for 7:30 for every day until the solstice.
(notice i said "set my alarm," not "wake up.")

what time do you wake up when you have no where you have to be?

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[fuffer]

I have a dog, so I get up between 7 and 8 because there's a dog breathing on me. If I didn't have a dog, I'm not sure when I'd get up. Maybe 8 or 9.

Here are my unemployment tips:

Don't turn on the TV during the day.

Do a few things every day that you don't want to do (like reading unemployment info (boring), figuring out COBRA (boring)). That way you feel like you're getting things done.

Have projects you're working on (like Javascript maybe? Or - yuck - getting a job. Boo. Or writing, you awesome writer, you.).

Meet someone at a coffee shop to work on projects (someone like me!).

Take a class.

Exercise.

Do that stuff around the house that you've been meaning to do for months/years.

See you in unemployment! It's great here. I love it!

[milknut]

I usually sleep until 8 or 9. If I have several days off, it gets progressively later because inevitably I will have started staying up later. I also nap during the day if I'm off.

Are you going to be looking for work right away or do you have some time?

[bouncingleaf]

Left to my own devices, and without any alarm clock prompting, I tend to go to bed around 12:30 and get up around 9:00-9:30.

[dharleenk]

when i'm on vacation or not working i have been known to sleep for 12 hours before naturally waking up.

one nice thing about being a grad student is that nobody bats an eye if i arrive at the crack of 10 am. heh.

[broken_gizmo]

what time do you wake up when you have no where you have to be?

Bwahahaha.

That depends almost entirely on what stage of brokenness my sleep cycle is in. I seem to have two states: The first is, "No sleep." In this phase, I will generally be able to get by on 3 - 5 hours of sleep a night, for months or years on end, with random bouts of "will sleep for a full day" (about once a quarter) or "will stay up for 3 days straight" (about once every 2 years). The second phase is, "must sleep all the time." In this phase, I have to be on fairly strong medication to manage to stay awake for 14 - 16 hours a day. Without the medications, I will sleep for 20 hours a day or more.

All that said, if I'm feeling "normal" (... whatever that is), I will wake up sometime between 6 and 9 AM generally, sometimes shifting an hour later.

... Switching myself back to getting up at 5AM 3 days a week is gonna suck. :)