One of those song chart things got me thinking about "Birdhouse in Your Soul."

ahhh! Earworm!!!

There was some comedian I was watching who talked about his sleep self, and how he would try to get up for work but this guy would say, "Sure, you could go to work, or you could go skiing, but your skis are made of french toast!" And he would say, "Awesome! That's much more fun!"

Mike Birbiglia!

basically sleep is just the extremest example of how I am inertia's bitch. It's so comfortable and easier to just stay in bed.

- see also: in front of tv, at desk at work, online

mac often has a hard time transitioning from one thing to another, especially if he does not know the schedule beforehand or if a schedule changes. I feel for him, because at my core, I am the same - it just gets buried deeper as I have less and less choice.

Wake up to the radio - listen to NPR and they keep reminding me of the time.

This is actually why I moved my alarm time earlier, because now I wake up to the Marketplace Morning Report (10 minutes before 7), and generally notice the switch to regular morning edition. I am sometimes able to sleep through 30-40 minutes of news.

Weirdly, this morning I woke up right when the alarm went off, even though I had moved it off the station in changing the time last night. So the radio playing really faint half spanish news, half english news woke me up.

dreaming about the news

I do this. Also, by setting my radio alarm to the same time and just leaving it on (radio plays for 2 hours, and then shuts off), I never have to worry that I've accidentally turned it off.

The sole function of my snooze button is for Sunday mornings, when the radio plays some stupid and boring local program for the first half-hour, which annoys me enough that I'll hit snooze so as not to have to listen to it while waking up. (After that it's the ordinary national morning show, which I like just fine.)

This is actually why I moved my alarm time earlier, because now I wake up to the Marketplace Morning Report (10 minutes before 7), and generally notice the switch to regular morning edition.

Oh, I do that too. "And the last word in business today is..."

At that point, I should be getting up.

Someone needs to install a snooze alarm on my toddlers.

My biggest problem is when the dog wakes me up (by getting up and walking around the room) well before my alarm. Because then I have to get up, carry him downstairs and outside, wait for him to do his business, wait for him to make his way back in the house, give him a treat (good boy!), wait for him to follow me back upstairs, and then I always think I deserve more sleep after that. Even if it's, like, 15 minutes. But then 15 minutes is not enough so it turns into 30 and so on. When really I should just get up with him and then go for a long walk.

Why isn't it time for lunch yet? I disapprove.