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.
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Betsy HP - Apr 06, 2005 11:07:00 am PDT #3831 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Atropa - Apr 06, 2005 11:08:51 am PDT #3832 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
DavidS - Apr 06, 2005 11:09:30 am PDT #3833 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
bon bon - Apr 06, 2005 11:10:10 am PDT #3834 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
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.
-t - Apr 06, 2005 11:10:52 am PDT #3835 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I want them to look at it and say "No way! You're much better looking than that!"
That reminds me of an incident that happened to a friend of mine when she went to vote. She handed the poll worker her ID and the ID checking person said "This isn't you, this girl's pretty".
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2005 11:11:22 am PDT #3836 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It takes me about an hour or two to become human, with coffee or without.
Does coffee make being inhuman feel more tolerable?
I'm not an afternoon person. In two hours, I'll really want to nap.
Other than that -- I can go to bed for the night between 9 and 2 or 3 just fine. Annoyingly I tend to not be able to sleep past 7:30 unless exhausted (and even then...)
It was on my mind because I'm functioning on coffee today, and it's horrible.
Jessica - Apr 06, 2005 11:11:42 am PDT #3837 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sorry -- I meant if the article was positing it as de jure.
Oh, I know. I was just speaking from my fount of Canadian travel knowledge.
If I am to be functional in the morning (by which I mean, able to wake up easily in time to shower and eat before work), I need to be in bed by 11. Since we eat dinner pretty late, and the Daily Show doesn't end until 11:30, this is not an option. Once I have my coffee, I'm all right, but often, I don't wake up in time to make or drink any, which means I'm groggy and cranky until close to 11.
P.M. Marc - Apr 06, 2005 11:12:44 am PDT #3838 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Does coffee make being inhuman feel more tolerable?
It allows me to focus long enough to drive to the office, if I have to drive to the office. I'm still surly, but I'm somewhat closer to conscious.
sarameg - Apr 06, 2005 11:12:45 am PDT #3839 of 10001
What's up? No, I mean, what does non-morning mean?
I do not like waking up. Upon wakefulness, my first thought is "ohfuck." My brain doesn't really work well. It isn't really tired, it just is not processing fast enough for 90% of the reality around me. Which is why I have a set routine. An interruption in that routine results in my staring stupidly at whatever the offending thing is as I fumble through possible responses. Conversing with people is HARD. So I glare at them, hoping they will just go away. I have the emotional keel of a feverish toddler who you just stole candy from. All of this I know and would try to moderate, if upon waking, I could comprehend caring about something other than the fact that, damnit, I have to get up. Basically, I'm stupid, cranky and selfish.
It goes away after about 30 minutes. Weekends, I lie in bed and it goes away. During the week? It usually disapates sometime in the shower, post paper and oj.
juliana - Apr 06, 2005 11:14:09 am PDT #3840 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Does coffee make being inhuman feel more tolerable?
I'm a freak, because I completely depend on coffee at the office to keep me from falling asleep around noon. It doesn't help me all that much in the morning when I'm drinking it (and I don't drink it after 10 a.m.), but the effects last well into the afternoon.