They'd have to be not only steel, but stolen.

I figure stealing steel balls is easier than growing them, and not just for chicks.

Question for non morning people:

What's up? No, I mean, what does non-morning mean? You wake up slowly? You wake up too soon? What, outside of stimulants, fixes the gronk? Not taxing yourself for a long time after waking up? Waking up later? Going to sleep earlier?

I mean, it's not just being sleepy, is it? Or is it? When I'm underslept (like now), coffee opens my eyes but makes me tense. And when the caffeine wears off, the tiredness comes back. Nothing makes it go away but sleep. So I will be in the afternoon the same disgruntled way I was in the AM.

Which is normally how it is -- I wake up just fine, and often early and before an alarm clock.

So I was wondering.

I'm counting the days until my passport expires. I desperately want a new picture taken. (The current one is so unspeakably awful that I'm insulted whenever border guards accept it as valid ID. I want them to look at it and say "No way! You're much better looking than that!")

Legally, I'm pretty sure you have to have a DL and birth certificate, if you don't have a passport.

Sorry -- I meant if the article was positing it as de jure.

JohnSweden - what's your lj name?

beathen, I'm hereward on lj.

What's up? No, I mean, what does non-morning mean? You wake up slowly? You wake up too soon? What, outside of stimulants, fixes the gronk? Not taxing yourself for a long time after waking up? Waking up later? Going to sleep earlier?

For me, it means my normal sleep cycle starts late in the evening (after midnight, usually, no matter how early I try to go to bed) and lasts until long after a morning alarm. It takes me about an hour or two to become human, with coffee or without.

So I was wondering.

For me, it's a question of what my internal clock prefers. If I didn't have to have a day job to make a living, I'd keep hours from 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. Even now, I often have trouble falling asleep around 10 p.m., which is when I need to go to sleep in order to get as many sleeping hours as I need.

Mmm, sleep.

eta: I can still make myself get up at 5:30 a.m. and go on a 5-mile run, but higher brain functions need to wait until 9 a.m., as a rule.

Morning/evening also has to do with when your brain works best. I do my best work first thing in the morning; by late afternoon, I'm dead. Late afternoon is when my husband galvanizes into action.

What's up? No, I mean, what does non-morning mean?

That left to my own devices, I would go to bed at 3AM, and get up around 11AM. I cannot fall asleep before 12:30AM unless I'm heavily medicated. If I have to wake up before 8AM, I may be moving around and talking, but my brain is not really functioning, and I feel off-kilter all day.

What's up? No, I mean, what does non-morning mean? You wake up slowly? You wake up too soon? What, outside of stimulants, fixes the gronk? Not taxing yourself for a long time after waking up? Waking up later? Going to sleep earlier?

JZ wakes up chatty and perky. She sinks slowly into unconsciousness as the evening wears on, getting nearly catatonic as she approaches bedtime. Frequently she's jabbering away at me in the morning about important decisions we need to make before I've absorbed any coffee. No amount of grunting apparently conveys that this kind of conversation needs to wait. She's basically a wind up toy. Tons of energy and the need to communicate when her spring is fully wound, barely capable of standing upright as her spring winds down.

ita, I'm not sure what you're looking for. I'm not a morning person because under ideal circumstances I just won't wake up in the morning, and I hate waking up pretty much every single morning I have to do so. But I'm fully wakeful after about 15 minutes because of Wellbutrin or anxiety, so I don't think the rest applies to me.