Morning Person
If I go to bed at 9 pm, I will wake up at 4:30, give or take ten minutes.
If I go to bed at 10 pm, I will wake up at 5:30, give or take ten minutes.
If I go to bed at 11 pm, I will wake up at 6:00, give or take.
If I go to bed at 12 pm, I will wake up at about 6:00.
Unless I am sick of course. I was once down with a case of the flu so bad that I was just laying in bed, alternating between sleep and suffering. When I felt better, I went into the living room and watched some TV. My housemates came in and one of them said, "Paul, you're alive!"
"Yeah, it's a good thing I don't have to be at work until Wednesday."
"Paul, it is Wednesday."
I looked at my watch and realized I'd slept through Tuesday. "It's a good thing I don't have to be at work until 2."
But that was just that once. The thing is, I was a paper boy for seven years, up until my junior year in high school, so I had had to finish my job by 6:30 am, so for me, walking up at six is sleeping in.
Unless it is not. I had a girlfriend in grad school who liked staying out until 2 am, but I was still waking up around 6 am. After a week, I got snippy with her, and she asked, "Hey, we were friends for a year and you were always a nice guy. Now we're dating and you're getting surly?" So I explained that I hadn't had decent night's sleep since we started dating, so we agreed to call it a night about midnight.
In a more advantageous situation, when I was an undergrad, eight o'clock classes were not a problem for me. If a professor was popular, all I had to do was wait for her to have an 8 am class and then I could sign up. I was also the first to the computer rooms, libraries, or anything else I needed for my studies.
Now at my job I have to be there by eight, which means leaving my apartment at 6:30 to catch a 7 am bus. But since I'm usually up at 5:30 anyway, it's no big deal.
However, there is a saying from my dad's college days: early to bed and early to rise, the girls go out with the other guys.
A lot of things have changed about college since my dad graduated, but not that. It's one reason why I didn't have a g/f until graduate school. As an undergrad, I slept through the parties where people hooked up. I did try to go to a few, but since I didn't have a drug of choice it really limited my options for fun. I remember going to my first college party and this guy was holding stamp over my hand. "How old are you?" he asked.
"18" The drinking age was 21.
"How old are you?"
"I don't drink."
"HOW OLD ARE YOU?"
Sigh. "21."
He stamped my hand.
The other main reason is probably that in public school, I pretty much only talked with girls when they needed help with their homework, but I went to the sort of college where the girls didn't need help with their homework, but I didn't know what else to talk about.
If I go to bed at 10 pm, I will wake up at 5:30, give or take ten minutes.
If I go to bed at 11 pm, I will wake up at 6:00, give or take.
If I go to bed at 12 pm, I will wake up at about 6:00.
Unless I am sick of course. I was once down with a case of the flu so bad that I was just laying in bed, alternating between sleep and suffering. When I felt better, I went into the living room and watched some TV. My housemates came in and one of them said, "Paul, you're alive!"
"Yeah, it's a good thing I don't have to be at work until Wednesday."
"Paul, it is Wednesday."
I looked at my watch and realized I'd slept through Tuesday. "It's a good thing I don't have to be at work until 2."
But that was just that once. The thing is, I was a paper boy for seven years, up until my junior year in high school, so I had had to finish my job by 6:30 am, so for me, walking up at six is sleeping in.
Unless it is not. I had a girlfriend in grad school who liked staying out until 2 am, but I was still waking up around 6 am. After a week, I got snippy with her, and she asked, "Hey, we were friends for a year and you were always a nice guy. Now we're dating and you're getting surly?" So I explained that I hadn't had decent night's sleep since we started dating, so we agreed to call it a night about midnight.
In a more advantageous situation, when I was an undergrad, eight o'clock classes were not a problem for me. If a professor was popular, all I had to do was wait for her to have an 8 am class and then I could sign up. I was also the first to the computer rooms, libraries, or anything else I needed for my studies.
Now at my job I have to be there by eight, which means leaving my apartment at 6:30 to catch a 7 am bus. But since I'm usually up at 5:30 anyway, it's no big deal.
However, there is a saying from my dad's college days: early to bed and early to rise, the girls go out with the other guys.
A lot of things have changed about college since my dad graduated, but not that. It's one reason why I didn't have a g/f until graduate school. As an undergrad, I slept through the parties where people hooked up. I did try to go to a few, but since I didn't have a drug of choice it really limited my options for fun. I remember going to my first college party and this guy was holding stamp over my hand. "How old are you?" he asked.
"18" The drinking age was 21.
"How old are you?"
"I don't drink."
"HOW OLD ARE YOU?"
Sigh. "21."
He stamped my hand.
The other main reason is probably that in public school, I pretty much only talked with girls when they needed help with their homework, but I went to the sort of college where the girls didn't need help with their homework, but I didn't know what else to talk about.