Feels like a Monday morning...

[fajrdrako]

I am usually a master at getting up on time. However tired I may be, I usually wake up one minute before my alarm clock goes off, playing CBC-2 into my ear. Sometimes I wonder why I bother to set the alarm. But when I forget to set it....

This morning I was supposed to get up at 7 a.m., but I forgot to set the alarm last night. I probably did wake up at 6:59, but it was dark, and I was sleepy, and I lay dozing for a while, not bothering to wake up properly. After all, the alarm hadn't gone off, right?

Then after a while I wondered. My time-sense was twinging, but I'd been ignoring it. I checked the clock. 7:17. And I should leave at 7:30 to catch my bus. Eep!

I showered, I dressed, I sent out a piece of work-related e-mail, I fed the birds and cleaned the cage, I threw together some lunch, and rushed to the bus stop - and managed to get downtown earlier than usual, so I had time to buy one of maaseru's Christmas presents (with some chatting with the sales' clerk) before buying breakfast at Loeb and arriving at work - on time at 8:30.

Why can't I manage that level of efficiency on other mornings?

Comments

Why not?

[idiotgrrl.livejournal.com]

Because you were in overdrive. Been there, done that! Try being in overdrive every morning for a week and then see if you're good for anything later.

Pat, no stranger to crashing & burning.

Re: Why not?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Try being in overdrive every morning for a week and then see if you're good for anything later.

Probably not!

At least it worked this once, and I wasn't dragging in to work half an hour late. Note to self: carefully set alarm for tomorrow.

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Heh... I hate waking up in the dark.

But I'm right with you about waking up on time without an alarm (although I usually cannot manage quite before the alarm - not recently anyway).

Efficiency. Well, I think it's a question of "I have to."
I end up leaving the flat at about the same time - doesn't matter how much I dally, say, for checking my mail/LJ/RPG in the morning - not at all, or half an hour. It's strange.

So, what happened to the onions in the Cesar salad?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I hate waking up in the dark.

I don't mind it so much when it's early and dark. When it's that late and still dark - it doesn't seem fair! What I hate even more is getting up and leaving for work when it's dark, and then coming home after work in the dark - unless I go for a walk at lunchtime, it's as if the sun never came up!

So I try to always go for a walk outdoors at lunchtime. And to be fair, this spell of short days only last for a while, and only at this time of year. It could be worse. It is worse, in England and Scandinavia.

Efficiency. Well, I think it's a question of "I have to."

Yeah, and a dollop of panic. "I don't want to be late for work - eee!"

doesn't matter how much I dally, say, for checking my mail/LJ/RPG in the morning

That's a dangerous one. I usually can't resist. I've been known to miss my best bus because of that.

So, what happened to the onions in the Cesar salad?

Funny you should ask, because I'm still not entirely sure. When I came back from holidays there were no onions for a few days. Then there were onions again. Then no onions for so long that I thought there'd never be onions again. Then for two days in a row (Friday and yesterday) there were onions. Today, no onions. I wonder which it will be tomorrow!

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

When it's that late and still dark - it doesn't seem fair

Right. My sleep deprivation must be putting things in my mouth... erm, fingertips.

That's a dangerous one. I usually can't resist.

I can resist only if the PC is off in the first place. That is, if I didn't turn it on the night before. Otherwise, it's out of the bed and before the PC. Now, how _long_ I spend there is another thing...

Re onions. Ouch... Trying to make you place bets on that, are they?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Twilight already, at 4:15 or so. It might be still partly light when I go home - I can hope.

I ususally turn off my computer at night. And I usually tell myself when I get up that it would be wiser not to turn it on, but I usually turn it on anyway as I get into the shower, and check my email when I come out, and... try not to take too long with it.

I'll bet there will be no onions tomorrow. We'll see if I'm right!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

A little pressure like that occasionally... But it's exhausting if it becomes frequent!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

- Groan -