**UPDATE** Worst day EVER!!!! Damn, I missed work today...

[CraigRT]

wish I could say the same.. 🙁



🙂

 

[cressida]

eh last week I stayed up late doing homework for a class, the next day I over slept and missed the class I was doing homework for.

 

[Medellon]

I guess I'm just lucky. Years of late night studying and working 2 jobs has reduced my need for sleep. If I get a solid 5 hours of sleep I'm good to go. I'm also an easy riser, when it's time to get up I jump right out of bed and into the shower and when I do need the alarm to wake me up I'm up instantly and have never used snooze. Anyone else like this?

 

I'm usually like that - I never have problems getting up. Today, however was the worst possible day for my habits to break, and I would have much rather slept through class than through work. Ugh, still waiting to see if my coordinator emails me back before class.

 

[xirtam]

Originally posted by: KingNothing

Originally posted by: xirtam

Originally posted by: Hoober

Originally posted by: xirtam

Originally posted by: Hoober

Originally posted by: fuzzy bee
i like to set my clocks ahead some random amount, so it freaks me up when i look at them in the morning. unfortunately, i can calculate what time it really is way too quickly.

That'd just be way too confusing.

I used to set my clock to midnight when I went to bed, calculate how many hours until I needed to get up, and set my alarm for that number.

Way too much math, way too early in the morning.

I cheated and used my fingers. Seriously, if you decide you have to get up at 8:15 and you're going to bed at 3, it's not hard to round your sleep out at 5 hours. Set alarm for 5:00 (or 5:15 if you're lazy), and the clock to midnight, and you're all set.

Of course, if you're not used to the setup, when you get up in the morning, you're like "5 am? No way!" and roll over.

I have an atomic alarm clock, so it's always set to the right time. It's also set to display military time so I have no chance of mistaking AM for PM when I set it. If I think I'll have trouble waking up in the morning, I put the clock out of my reach. No reason to set alarm clocks to random times, just use some common sense.

For some reason, it makes my life simpler knowing how many hours I've slept, and it's easier to do that if I set my clock for midnight before I go to bed and sleep for a predetermined number of hours. And if I can't afford to sleep for very many hours, I kick myself in the teeth and think about going to bed earlier the next night.

Otherwise, I don't really remember the time I went to bed and don't know how much sleep potential I had. Thus, it's harder to pinpoint the reason why I'm tired... whether there's some kind of psychological problem with me (yeah, probably, I'm weird) or I just didn't sleep long enough (good chance of that too).

Hope things work out with the job, jumpr. Most of the situations I've been in, people don't seem to care when or if I show up, particularly if nothing's going on anyway. Doesn't sound like you're in the same boat though. I think I'd be pissed if I was supposed to get into a building and it was locked.

 

Originally posted by: xirtam
Hope things work out with the job, jumpr. Most of the situations I've been in, people don't seem to care when or if I show up, particularly if nothing's going on anyway. Doesn't sound like you're in the same boat though. I think I'd be pissed if I was supposed to get into a building and it was locked.

Well, ordinarily it'd be a big deal, but I'm just training today - basically I'm just going out with an experienced employee and they were going to show me the ropes (there are 3 or 4 training sessions before I can work by myself), so the buildings will all get unlocked.

It just doesn't look good on my part to not show up on my first day of new duties. 🙁

 

[xirtam]

True. But it's definitely more forgivable during "training" than if you were the sole "unlocker."

 

[Kevin]

The best is when school starts at 8AM and your parent comes into your room at 7:50 asking if you have school. They they go into the bathroom and you're waiting to take a shower for another 45 minutes...

 

Just got an email from my boss - looks like I'm okay. She said that one no call/no show is excusable and that I'm still scheduled for Mondays and Fridays LPS. I've already bought a new, louder alarm clock.

Whew - that took a load off my back. Now I can go to the first day of my spring Psych class and sleep peacefully!!

😀

 

[xirtam]

Good to hear it.

If it weren't for napping in classes, I doubt I would have gotten any sleep at all in college.

 

See the update at the first post! WORST. DAY. EVAR.

 

[loup garou]

haha!

 

[prodigy]

Originally posted by: werk
haha!

 

Bump...anyone ELSE want to laugh at my idiocy? 🙂

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: jum

EDIT: okay, this is officially going too far. I went to the 'first day' of my Psych class (It's M-T-Th) and sat in the lecture hall for 20 minutes before I decided to go down to the Psych office becuase no one was there...and on the markerboard there, in HUGE letters, it said, "SPRING CLASSES START APRIL 29!" Ugh, I was one day EARLY, but I went because I saw "Monday" on the schedule. Somebody shoot me NOW.

mauahahahaha .. i always know what days I DO NOT have to go to class.

 

[Fritzo]

Yeah, you're marked at that job now. Better not be later for a few months now.

As for the class screw up, that happens all the time. I once sat through an entire metalurgy class thinking it was an engineering class. The last 5 minutes of class we were told to pull out our text books and mine was different from everyone else's. Ha!