Many of my friends have an idea that I am an insomniac and that I am definately more of a night person than someone who enjoys the early morning.. but the reality is that I dislike (HATE) sleep.
I end up staying up late because I do have insomnia, but also because I hate shutting things down at the end of the day. Even if I’m not “in the middle of something” real, I still have things in my head for work or play that I’m working on, even if I’m not sitting in front of a computer making something happen with them.. so every night it’s the same thing.. check that my scheduler/task manager has all of the “to do” list in there along with any current brainstorming, then (and only then) can I sleep.. knowing that I can pickup where I left off in the morning.
..but mornings are not that easy either. If I have no specific “time oriented” function I need to wake up for, I sleep in.. I hate waking up just to “get back to work” on whatever it was I had to write down and give up the night before. Waking up and looking at a task list with 50-100 items on it doesn’t do much for giving someone incentive to get out of bed. The worst part of this, I CAN BE a morning person.. with motivation (no, not caffine, I mean motivation as in a reason to be up early). EVERY time I go camping, any time I have a morning appointment, any time I have a “reason” to be up at a decent hour, I am.. and I can find it enjoyable. Usually when I’m camping I find that I wake up at around 5am - often in time to see the sunrise. My problem with waking up is that the feeling/thought of waking up is often coordinated with things I dislike, like trying to figure out where I left off on a train of thought the previous night and how large is my current list of tasks.. and other related things that don’t make me really want to be motivated to start the day.
To complicate things, my body really doesn’t object to staying up.. so staying up until 4am, or just staying up all night really isn’t hard. This just makes the situation worse since I’m not usually “tired” which would probably make things easier for this whole “sleep” thing.
Things I’ve done instead of sleep?
- chaperon a sleepover party Ayumi had for her softball team
(yeah, as if they were going to stay up all night.. not at that age!)
- pull all-nighters for fun (heh, certainly wasn’t for the studying)
- cross-country road trips
- programming (I use the term loosely)
- post blog entries at 1am..
Anyway, 1:30am now.. sleep is what I am supposed to be doing now.. and we all do what we’re supposed to.. right? ..if only I were tired..
We should have a geek partay!! Erm… yah, i’m still up
June 8th, 2005, at 1:43 am #Ooh, now there’s an idea… but geeks don’t know what to do when they get together… guess we could watch TV, or sit online typing “hello” back and forth…
June 8th, 2005, at 1:52 am #This is just one of the things we are “opposite” on - I adore my sleep. The feeling of snuggling up warm in bed, dozing off into comforting nothingness. We do differ though - i dont do the allnighter thing, I definately like at least 6 hours, 7 or 8 if you dont want me feeling sluggish.
Weekdays i’m in bed by 10.30pm and i’m normally up between 5.30 and 6.30 - weekend I tend to stay up a little longer (unless i’m bored then sleep just makes time pass faster) - I dislike sleepin’s unless there’s someone to snuggle with.
Funny thing is even though we are opposite on sleep.. you’ve never complained when i’ve woken you up at 5am *evil grin* and you’ve always been sleepy when we’ve gone to bed.. eventually … go figure
June 10th, 2005, at 6:10 pm #I hate *having to* sleep, but unfortunately I have to… nothing assists a quick slide into my pit more than getting too little sleep.
June 17th, 2005, at 1:51 pm #I really don’t have much of an opinion for sleep, but when I was little I absolutely HATED to take naps. I was afraid I might miss out on something fun. Even now I’m not much of a napper unless I’m totally exhausted from some strenuous physical activity.
June 21st, 2005, at 12:45 pm #