Sunday, April 02, 2006

Sleeping in and other accomplishments

I awoke this morning and looked at my clock as usual, and felt a great sense of accomplishment since the clock said it was 8:53. My accomplishment, as small as it might seem, was to actually sleep past 8:00 am on a weekend: you see I just don't sleep in any more--despite my most diligent efforts to do so. I suppose this is just conditioning on having to get up early each day for work, and I've just not been able to break the habbit in the two days that I have off. I prefer not to admit that I am edging my way to becoming one of those ancient crones who wake up at 4 am and go walk in the mall. I prefer to think that given enough time I could break this terrible habbit of waking up early and get back to a more respectable rising time of say 11:25.

Imagine my disappointment and diminishing self-worth when upon listening to the morning news I was reminded that daylight savings time had gone into force.

6 comments:

  1. I call sleeping in any amount of sleep where I wake up with a slightly stiff back. Usually, that means between 7.5 and 8 hrs. Sad commentary.

    The DST did produce an amazing day where the light lasted lo-ong. I feel summer coming right up.

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  2. I would let the early rising thing go and concentrate your energy on not growing ear hair and leaking smells.

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  3. It turns out Cordelia's confusion was about how my clock was set ahead: I have one of those fancy clocks that knows when it is Daylight savings time or not. It knows which way the wind blows, you see.

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