on tricycles and mornings

[baratron]

I've known for years - nay, decades - that I am Not A Morning Person. I only realised how serious the issue was when I attempted to go back to full-time work. I am so very Not A Morning Person that it is impossible for me to maintain a "normal" sleep-wake cycle. This is a statement which no one else has the right to argue with, by the way. Believe

Comments

[marnanel]

It sucks. I'm resigned for now to being a B-person living in an A-world, andI know I'll never get anything like as much done as I would have if I could set my own schedules.

[brooksmoses]

*grin* Whereas I've learned that, if something substantial absolutely needs to be done before 9:00 (or sometimes even 10:00), getting up early never works -- especially if I'm running out of time and staying up late anyway, the only way to actually get it done is to stay up as late as it takes.

The problem is that there's not really an option, when I'm too sleepy to get up and do useful work at 7:45am, to say, "Sod it, I'll stay up late last night and finish it."

[brooksmoses]

Oh, I certainly have no problems trusting you on that -- all I have to do to imagine it is a simple mental reflection at midnight, and figure that your mornings are like my evenings and vice versa!

Definitely good that there are some of both of us.

[lovingboth]

What happens when you go to, say, the US?

[baratron]

Then it becomes interesting, because my natural body clock is shifted by about 4-5 hours from my usual timezone. On the East Coast, I suddenly become someone who goes to bed at midnight and wakes up at 9am. I'm still dead in the morning, though not for as long as at home. (This may be due to the excitement of being on holiday, however.) And the longer I spend on that timezone, the more likely I am to drift backwards - and find myself staying up until 1 or 2am, and not getting up until 10 or 11am. After 10 days, I'm back to being out of phase with the timezone I'm in - which makes coming home an absolute nightmare!

[memevector]

The healthiest thing for me is to say "sod 'normal', I'll have to work
for myself at the hours I choose".

This sounds to me immensely wise. I.m.o. there's not enough of this kind of reasoning in the world!

[skibbley]

I saw some small people on speedy trikes in Battersea Park last weekend.

p.s.
12 - 14 October 2007
De Montfort University Campus Centre
Leicester, UK
Machinima (pronounced ma-shin-i-ma). Making movies with videogames, the word being an amalgamation of machine cinema....
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/machinima/

also on the same weekend and nearby:

Carnival of Souls - the UK's premier event for the Gothic and Fetish communities.
Next event - Sunday 14 October 2007.
http://www.carnivalofsouls.co.uk/