Sorry, Jess' brain is taking a song break right now. Please leave her a message and she will get back to you. ( Da-doo! )

ita, I suspect I don't get morning people as profoundly as you don't get non-morning people.

I just don't have high level functions right away. the boot up is slow.

Oh, yes. Once or twice, right after I started abilify and right after I started taking 5-htp, I woke up and was instantly *awake*. It was a revelatory experience. Sadly, it didn't last.

I yawn all day long. I don't even realize I'm doing it until people point it out. And then they make jokes and I want to smack them. Doesn't matter how much sleep or how much caffeine I've had, I still yawn.

The thing is, I could set my hours at 10-7 if I wanted to, I just can't stand to leave work that late. So my "start time" is 8:30, but I try and get there at 8 so I can have an hour lunch. Today I got here at 9:15.

'Til it's five p eeeeeemmmmmm / Then you go

My nephew woke me up with a phone call this morning- informing me that his niece has arrived. The next generation is relentlessly being born.

It's a better earworm than the insipid Christmas carol I couldn't lose yesterday.

It's a better earworm than the insipid Christmas carol I couldn't lose yesterday.

I'm switching between GLEE earworms of "Defying Gravity" and the "It's My Life/Confessions" mashup.

It's... interesting.

I know I shouldn't say it out loud, but I have never gotten not morning people.

I've never gotten morning people. Then I moved in with one. She gets up at 5am and is asleep by 9pm. In an ideal world, I would get up at 9am and go to bed at 1am. Since that would mean we never ever saw each other ever ever, I am working on going to bed at 11 and getting up at 7. It's HARD work.

ETA: I found old 'A Bit of Fry and Laurie' eps to ahem, and am watching them during study breaks. So much fun!

Hey buffista mommas: what gift do you wish someone had brought you when you were in the hospital with your new baby?

Oh dear god who linked the Jeeves alarm clock? WANT.

1. I cannot imagine living with someone who gets up before me and then helps me get up. Seriously, that's a fantasy I dream about sometimes, but in that wistful "world without shrimp" kind of way.

2. My alarm is "Going Through the Motions" because it really REALLY captures how I feel about morning.

3. I, like ChiKat, hate teaching hours. Yet...I've adapted because I had to. I am definitely a creature of the night given my druthers, but I'm perfectly functional in the morning because I have to be. Not only to get to work on time, but also because I have to motivate teenagers to be awake and engaged. Sometimes I feel like Jeckyll and Hyde, because I am incapable of getting up on weekends or vacation, but that alarm goes off at 5:45 every school day and I'm okay. These two aspects of my personality never coincide. I don't get it.

4. I slept in a second story loft in my childhood bedroom. I was so bad that I could climb down the ladder/stairs, turn off my alarm, climb back up the ladder/stairs, and go back to sleep without any memory of doing so. My mom took to squirting me with a water gun in high school to get me up. She'd tried everything else without success. t shudder

ETA: It occurs to me that #1 is total karmic payback for #4.