Getting Up In The Morning

[poliphilo]

This is the second morning in a row I've been woken by Samina telling her kids to get out of bed. Yesterday it happened at 7.20. I know it was 7.20 because she said so- and that they needed to be downstairs eating their breakfast in five minutes. Both times I've rolled over and gone back to sleep. This morning it was nearly nine before I woke again- which is much later than normal. I always feel guilty about getting up late. I suppose because it was dinged into me as a kid that early rising is virtuous. 

Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

I hate to be bounced out of bed. I like to wake slowly, rising gradually through the levels. I detest alarm clocks. If I have an alarm clock set I keep waking at intervals through the night in an attempt to forestall the damn thing. If I am roused suddenly- by the postman, say, making an early morning delivery- it takes me hours to adjust to the change in consciousness. 

Comments

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Earplugs.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I hsve used those in the past.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Your last paragraph describes me to a "T" as regards how poorly I sleep when required to use an alarm clock. It's horrible and exhausting.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I wish I could trust myself to wake on cue without outside prompts.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Oh I agree completely about alarm clocks! I have problems sleeping too when I know that I MUST get up by some earlier hour.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My internal clock is actually pretty good- and usually wakes me up when I want to wake up- only I don't feel I can trust it....

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can sympathise. I'm an owl, and I'm married to a lark, who shuts down at 10pm, precisely. I've tried converting myself into a lark, but all that happens is that I become an insomiac and disgruntled owl...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm not an owl, but I'm not a lark either. I just like my bed.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

I don't like alarm clocks, either, and try my best to avoid using one.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They're horrid things.

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's another birthday coming up. I have thought of you a few times in the past few months. Strange to wonder what Tony Grist would do. But I didn't. I don't know you well enough to know what you would have done, so I did what I thought best. But I wanted to let you know, how much I respect you as a writer and as a thinker, though I've never met you, you've touched my life.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

We used to talk a lot. I've missed you.

The birthday that's coming up is my 60th. It feels strange. I'll be as old as my grandparents were when I first knew them.

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

I've missed you, too! Do you chat? I just started to do so again, but in a limited way. I'd love to add you to my contacts. Shoot me an e-mail at anaiis@gmail.com with your information for any chat program if you use it. I use Trillian, so I can accommodate. ;)

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I was always a night owl, retiring late and sleeping even later, when possible. Then we gave up watching television and now I am falling asleep by nine and awake often no later than 4:30! I have become my grandfathers, something I never should have expected.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I often take an afternoon nap these days- just like my grandparents.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

So far, I have successfully resisted afternoon naps, but fear they are coming.

Early rising

[(Anonymous)]

I hate lying in bed after I wake up, especially if it's dark. I'm usually up between 2:00 and 5:00, with me prefernece being around 3:30.

Re: Early rising

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If it's dark when I wake I try to go back to sleep. I hate being up and about before it's light.