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!
Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Oct 22, 2015 1:50:09 pm PDT #7592 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
meara - Oct 22, 2015 2:04:19 pm PDT #7593 of 30003
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.
Zenkitty - Oct 22, 2015 2:14:51 pm PDT #7594 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
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.
sarameg - Oct 22, 2015 2:28:11 pm PDT #7595 of 30003
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.
brenda m - Oct 22, 2015 2:47:43 pm PDT #7596 of 30003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
NoiseDesign - Oct 22, 2015 2:53:13 pm PDT #7597 of 30003
Our wings are not tired
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.
Juliebird - Oct 22, 2015 3:04:04 pm PDT #7598 of 30003
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
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.
Typo Boy - Oct 22, 2015 3:04:43 pm PDT #7599 of 30003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
ND, your boss may pay you well, but he has unreasonable expectations as to the workload you can handle.
-t - Oct 22, 2015 3:10:49 pm PDT #7600 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's the little guy's first convention.
Woohoo!
Sue - Oct 22, 2015 3:11:32 pm PDT #7601 of 30003
hip deep in pie
I've had two nights of around seven hours of uninterrupted sleep in a row this week and it seems like a frigging miracle. I need at least seven hours of sleep, but I've been getting usually about 5-6, and rarely without waking up at some point for the last few years. It sucks.