Monday, May 09, 2011

A Modern Day Record

I awoke at precisely 1314 hrs today and that's sumthin' of a personal record for sleepin' in, otherwise known as sloth and indolence.  The only excuse I have for this behavior is the UCR one: I went to bed around 0630 hrs this morning.  I'm beginning to worry about my sleeping habits (ed: beginning?  You've been bitching about this for five years.), which have been gettin' progressively weirder and weirder over the last year or so, with the overriding thought bein' "this ain't normal."

I suppose I shouldn't let this bother me.  This isn't insomnia or anything like that because I sleep very well and in an uninterrupted manner once I actually go to sleep.  My main issue is bein' out of synch with the rest of the world, which is kinda-sorta bothersome.  I can get over that.

The coffee sure is good this morning!

7 comments:

  1. I heard about this on the radio during one of my sleepless nights recently. Normal ain't normal, apparently.
    http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/10/what_is_a_natural_sleep_patter.php

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  2. Ah. Thanks for that Bec. I've been tellin' people "normal ain't normal" for YEARS when it comes to my behavior and you've just helped me confirm the fact. ;-)

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  3. "The coffee sure is good this morning!"
    I'm sure it was morning somewhere, unless you meant zulu time?

    "'this ain't normal.'" Read this, then define normal for us.

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  4. Normal is a statistical fiction, and the schedules most people keep are those dictated by schools and the first-shift workplace. You got someplace you gotta be? :-) All you've done, near as I can tell, is retired to the second or third shift. More power to you.

    Left to my own devices, I will eventually cycle into a schedule where I go to bed at sunup and rise in early- to mid-afternoon, and that's where it stabilizes.

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  5. Skip: Yup. I'm at 98.6 or reasonably close, so I DO qualify as "normal," according to your definition. I was on Asian time as far as the coffee goes, given it was about 1800 hrs at the Prime Meridian when I woke up. ;-)

    Left to my own devices, I will eventually cycle into a schedule where I go to bed at sunup and rise in early- to mid-afternoon, and that's where it stabilizes.

    We're remarkably similar in this aspect, Barry... coz that's exactly where I am, at the moment. Me, you, and the freakin' bats!

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  6. Having the freedom to do whatever the heck you want to do is a good thang - Not weird at all. I am a morning person - farm girl - child of the day.

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  7. I used to be a morning person, Lou... but that was quite some time ago.

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