Lisiprin changed me from a night owl to an afternoon owl. I usually fall asleep by 10pm unless there's soemthing specific I'm staying up for. First alarm is at 6am, and second alarm starts going off at 6:45, running through snooze cycles until sometime between 7am and 7:20am. The long drive to work allows me to gradually wake up by 9, but I'm not really productive and efficient until 10:30 or 11, just as I would be if I worked locally and rolled out of bed 20 minutes before work. I probably have several prime hours after quitting time, at least one of which I used to work rather than driving or eating dinner in.
Sadly, the difficult new schedule is so ingrained that I usually wake up around 6 even on alarm-free weekends, though I can often nap until 9 or so if there's not too much noise.
6am is an unholy hour, and no reasonable person should ever have to wake that early.
There's a 6 am??? Or is that just another word for fuck-o-clock-in-the-morning?
What I don't understand about all you night owls is how you manage to make coffee when you're barely functional.
I don't need my brain turned on to make coffee. My arms and legs will go through the correct motions without me.
Ours has a timer, and when I remember to set it, it's cool. But we very rarely do. (I think we just need to make it a habit.)
I don't. That is why God invented Coffee Bean.
Ah. So the process is get up, shower, dress, leave house, purchase coffee, drink coffee? I've never really had a situation where stopping at a coffee place on the way to work made sense, but I can see why it would be easier if it did.
Yeah. I never set up my coffee in the morning. It's always set up the night before, and we have a timer on our machine. LYRA COME OUT OF THE DARK AGES!!!
What I don't understand about all you night owls is how you manage to make coffee when you're barely functional.
I either drink it at work when someone else has made it, or I get the coffee pot ready the night before and just have to flip a switch.
I definitely need food and coffee before leaving the house, as discussed here already, but the food part is the key. Actually, somewhat recently I had toast first thing, but no coffee, and a couple of hours later was about to start STABBING EVERYONE, and then I realized why. Oops.
So the process is get up, shower, dress, leave house, purchase coffee, drink coffee?
Yep. I'm on autopilot until I hit Pico and the caffeine starts to kick in.
ETA: Not to mention the nicotine.
My standard morning routine involves checking e-mail, getting up to date on four or five sites, watching an "hour" of TV, a long shower, and breakfast.
Intellectually I understand that cutting down to a short shower and breakfast would mean I could sleep an hour more.
It just never takes.
What I don't understand about all you night owls is how you manage to make coffee when you're barely functional.
I force my bf to get up and make it for me or go to Starbucks when he's out of town. That is how.
These days I get up at 5:40, put on my robe and stumble to the living room to my rocker. I sit down and get handed a baby to feed.
