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The Making of a Morning Person (Day 6)
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on March 29th, 2006
Strange news to report today. I was indeed up at 5am, but the problem was that I never actually went to bed. So I can’t fairly claim to have gotten up, to have risen early.
The Making of a Morning Person (Day 5)
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on March 28th, 2006
This morning, I popped out of bed when the alarm went off (I’m not prewaking yet or anything), but instead of wandering out into the hall and doing my normal thing, I got back into bed and stared at the ceiling. I recognized that this was partially consideration for the fact that my friend wasn’t going to wake up for at least another 2 hours, but mostly it was an excuse to stay in the warm bed.
Only Computers Can Fark Up This Quickly
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on March 27th, 2006
So I run the program, and while it’s happily scanning and updating my enormous music library, I notice that some songs are suddenly appearing without their album art.
The Making of a Morning Person (Day 4)
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on March 27th, 2006
This morning I got up to my alarm at 5am, feeling slightly foggy but not tired. I had several strange dreams, one of which involved me picking up garbage from the parking lot behind my apartment.
The Making of a Morning Person (Day 3)
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on March 26th, 2006
Yesterday was amazing. After getting up at 5am, I was able to do a lot of reading and writing, churn through a tonne (metric, not imperial) of household chores, and still go out with an old buddy later in the evening. I did need a nap about halfway through the day– I did the 30 minute nap with alarm, and woke up feeling really good.
The Making of a Morning Person (Day 2)
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on March 25th, 2006
Got home from poker at midnight, and went straight to bed. My alarm went off at 5am, and I groaned out of bed and started the day. I was worried this wasn’t going to work.
The Making of a Morning Person
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on March 24th, 2006
I hate the morning. Somewhere in high school, I started despising the AM, and now I’d prefer a timetable to 11-7, staying up until 2AM reading, writing, and chilling. But then I read an article by Steve Pavlina, who turned himself from a night owl into a morning person.
I recognize the value of this; many times I have risen so late on the weekends (and when I was self-employed) that I couldn’t run errands because shops and services closed at 5pm. And it’s a self-perpetuating cycle: getting up after lunch leaves you wide awake at 2am, meaning you stay up later, and get up later yet again.
This Steve fella managed to get up every morning at 5am, regardless of when he went to bed. My goal: to try the 5am wakeup for 30 days, and see if it sticks.
This is day one. The ironic thing is that I was up until 2am last night reading about this, and some of the Steve’s other exploits. Then, I got up a few scant hours later, at 5am.
I treated myself to a breakfast of bacon and eggs, listened calmly to the news, had a nice long shower, got ready for work, read some internet feeds, and left the house with lots of time to spare. It was very civilized. Perhaps too civilized….
This Can’t Be Right
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on January 18th, 2006
Your 2005 Song Is
Beverly Hills by Weezer
“My automobile is a piece of crap
My fashion sense is a little whack
And my friends are just as screwy as me”
You breezed through 2005 in your own funky style!
Tears
Posted by yoursinwriting in Poems on January 18th, 2006
some tears are poems
and so are some sweaty underarms
and the slow red trickle of a papercut
can recite as violently as a cumshot
The Killarney Bus
Posted by yoursinwriting in Poems on January 17th, 2006
You fall into my arms
a victim of inertia
a corner taken too quickly
crazy bus driver
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