All summer I've been wearing skirts and cropped pants. One of the facilities ladies has seen me most mornings and commented that she liked my bright clothes. This morning I was wearing jeans, as it's getting cooler. She spotted me and chirped as she walked by, "Why, I didn't recognize you! You're wearing pants!" We were not alone in the office lobby, and I blinked and said, "Well, that sounded bizarre." She tracked me down a couple of minutes later, all flustered, and explained how she meant I'd been wearing skirts etc., which I understood. Still, enough people apparently know who I am around her, and I'd rather not have "I didn't recognize you, you're wearing pants" attached to my name.

On the flip side of sleep, I have a coworker who I believe genuinely doesn't need that much. She was saying she's having trouble with her retainer because she only wears it to bed and she's not in bed long enough!

I am very jealous of people who only need 6 or 7 hours! (And I mean "need", not "would like more but only get...")

Poor Casper has lights out at 9pm (and we can't reasonably push it much earlier) and gets up at 6:15 because school starts at 7:30 and the poor child is exhausted all the time during the week. It can't be healthy. (I know, 9 hours sounds like a lot, but she is young and growing like crazy.)

Yeah, I was basically cranky for five years from 8th-12th grade, because school started at 7:30 and my bus picked me up at 6:40, and I was even less a morning person now than then. In theory I was supposed to go to bed at 9PM, but it only vaguely happened, I was usually in my ROOM, but not asleep, by a long shot.

I don't have to be at work till 9, a situation I've set up deliberately because I know my ability to get to bed early. Not having kids to worry about makes life must less complicated.

This is me. Also I know my ability to get up early. Unreliable. Some days I'm up at 5am, but those days I'll be asleep by 8, and sleeping interferes somewhat with working. I can function on 5 hours sleep for one day, but to be really alert, I need at least 7. School was such a misery, because I had to get up at 5 every school morning from 1st grade to senior graduation.

I regularly get by on 5-6.5 hrs. I could do with more, but I'm functional. Weekends I tend to sleep more. I just can't make myself go to bed at a reasonable hour and I just wake up early. I can easily fall back to sleep, but only if I plan to be later to work than I'd like. So I get up.

6 hours is about average for me I'd say. It's when that six is broken up with wake ups that I get really testy.

I've been doing 5-6 hours a night pretty consistently since the Spring, with more nights than I'd like to think about that are closer to 4 hours. This has been pretty much 7 days a week.

My body hates me. I wake up after five hours I sleep on a good night. So going to bed early doesn't guarantee extra sleep. I just wake up at two am. And then get sleepy again an hour before I should be up.

ND, your boss may pay you well, but he has unreasonable expectations as to the workload you can handle.

It's the little guy's first convention.

Woohoo!