Early Birds

[Redfraggle]

My roommate flew out this morning for his annual ski trip. Because we're good friends, I volunteered to drive him to the airport -- we had to arrive just a bit after 5am. This meant getting up at 4:30am. Since somewhere around 2am is my normal bedtime, I saw no point in sleeping. I don't have anything to do today aside from some social plans, so no big deal. One of the things I have planned is a lunch with my best friend. I thought that I'd go to the stores and get my stuff done early. But no, none of the things I wanted were open, and the things that were open didn't have what I wanted. So screw you early birds, there's no advantage to getting up pre-dawn to go do shopping. The world is open late, and I'm a night owl -- yay me.

I'm going to go inject caffeine straight into my veins now. I pity anyone who has to converse with me today as I'm likely to burst into random fits of laughter for no reason....more than usual.

Any early birds are free to convince there's an advantage. I might agree, but the outlook isn't great for that right now.

 

[olds]

Go have some waffles.

 

[Turin39789]

and chicken

 

[olds]

Wash it down with :beer:

 

[Redfraggle]

No stranger than the two pieces of toast and half a sweet potato I just ate for breakfast. ....second breakfast? I ate some oatmeal at 4:30.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

i like getting up early. i'm not always motivated to do it, but it feels good when i do.

 

[Anubis]

The early worm is for the birds

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i like getting up early. i'm not always motivated to do it, but it feels good when i do.

I always feel like I'm gaining time by getting up early, or that I'm using my time instead of wasting it. About 4 months ago, I took a job working from 6:00am - 2:30 pm and I love it. I haven't gotten up this early every day since I was working on a lobster boat (up at 4:00 and home by 1:00, it ruled). I love beating all the 9-5'ers home every day

 

[rasczak]

I'm usually up everyday @ 3:45am. On the day I work the second job (Tues) are tough because I don't get to bed until 11:00am at the earliest, but still wake up at 3:45am. I love gettting up early in the morning.

 

[Redfraggle]

How do you function routinely on 4ish hours of sleep??

Ok, I've had jobs that required me to be up early all the time, and it was kinda nice. I felt productive with my day. Seeing sunrise every day was sort of nice. But the notion that early birds getting more done out in public seems not to work anymore. If I had simply wanted to clean around my house, easy. But I wanted to buy some salmon, and the seafood selection was poor. That annoyed me.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

well, my goal is work my way down to requiring 6 hrs of sleep. right now i need 8. many people can make do with 6, so i wanna try to achieve that. sleep is going to be especially hard to come by when i get to doing my residency.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Go have some waffles.

Originally posted by: Turin39789
and chicken

Thank god there are places that do only that.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i like getting up early. i'm not always motivated to do it, but it feels good when i do.

Really? It usually makes me feel homicidal.

 

[CRXican]

My current job has me starting at 7:30 am. I live about an hours drive away but take the train to avoid traffic (30 min by train). Train leaves at 6:32 so I'm up at 5:30 at the latest.

I make myself go to bed at 10 so I can get about 7 hours of sleep, 11 at the latest. If and when I have to wake up prior to 5:30 I'm not sure how I'll do it.

::edit::

The advantage is you start work earlier so you're out ealier and have more time to enjoy the things/places that aren't open when you wake up.