PEOPLE WHO GET UP EARLIER THAN YOU

exhibit 1a, Ned Raggett

HARK AT THEM AND THEIR DISAPPROVAL OF WORK POOPERS

I just like getting up early so I can be the first one in and first one out.

Also ILxing easier when in office alone. Walking dogs in the dark is nice too.

...everyone?

I have to be at work by 6:30. I try to get in by 6 so I can get a little head start on things. My work is in the suburbs. So my alarm is set for 4:50 a.m., though I think it's a little fast, so I probably actually wake up around 4:40. Hooray for me!

I admire you n/a. I only get up around 5:15. I'm going to try to bump it to the 4ish area though so I can make it to a 6:30 yoga class before my upcoming 8am class. But I think that might be a stretch for me.

just move to europe ffs

Nah, too European.

On the west coast, I was waking up between 4:30 and 5:00 every morning. Go jogging, take a shower, leisurely breakfast before heading off to face the day. Moving back east has rolled that back to 7:30/8, but I imagine I'll have to recalibrate myself once I get some work.

Morning twilight is the most beautiful part of the day.

the people who go to the gym/jog/kickbox for an hour before 12 hours of work > me :(

exhibit 1a, Ned Raggett

Hi dere.

today i woke up at 1:26 in the afternoon

which is cool, because then i don't have to feel guilty about smoking bong hits before noon

I hate it when I get up earlier than I get up. I feel almost ashamed of myself.

Jesus fucking Christ. I resent getting out of bed before 8am!

I really hate mornings.

I r the early bird compared to just about every person in my life except my parents. Largely b/c I am HUNGRREE in the morning and the beast needs food. Historically my early-rising, early-dining condition has annoyed the shit outta my boyfriends, so I guess it's good for something.

Where is the I AM THAT GUY option?

You should cook bacon for your boyfriends. That will dampen any complaints no matter what unholy hour you get up.

the only thing i hate more than having to go to sleep at night is having to get up in the morning.

my girlfriend goes to bed 1-2 hours before me and gets up 1-2 hours before me most weekdays. i think she is in the right really - i might have another go at transferring the time i spend doing stuff from 11pm-1am or later to 7-9am instead.

In the past I wore eye-cover/earplugs to go to sleep before my boyfriend did. Now we have an agreement that the TV goes off at 10 no matter what. (I usually try to go to sleep before this but so much easier without TV on.)

i used to date a guy who worked 8am-5pm while i worked 4pm-11pm/12am. it annoyed the shit out of him that i would stay up 2 or 3 hours later than him, and it annoyed the shit out of me that he would set his alarm for 30mins before he had to get up and then proceed to press snooze every fucking five mins.

I want to sleep later than my husband (gets up early to train for marathons) and my daughter (wakes me up and insists that I sing "'Tis the Gift to Be Simple" right away). Half my family is insane.

I really really want to start getting up earlier. Currently I get up at 5:45. I just feel like I can get a lot of things done in the morning, plus I'd like to have more time to exercise. 4:30 would be my ideal waking time. I would probably need to be in bed by 10:30 to make that feasible.

Yeah, that's the rub: I'm jealously protective of my evening hours, and if I gave them up in order to rise earlier the only thing I'd have to look forward to wd be reporting to the office for 8 hours. At least at night my time is my own until I sleep and wake again, and I can anticipate a tasty dinner, or socializing, or productive work on a project, or whatever thing actually makes me happiest.

My most recent ex-girlfriend is naturally nocturnal and would often get to sleep an hour or so after I woke up. I can sleep through anything, but she needed the mask/ear-plugs thing to sleep through my rattling around.

I feel sorry and empathetic towards people who have difficulty getting up in the morning as the world is made for cheerful-assed, go-getter fuckheads like me. Good jobs on the night-shift are hard to find and stores and restaurants close too damn early.

Being able to leave at 4 feels like I get more evening time. If I have to stay until 5 or after I get very grumpy. But I think this preference is really just because I function better in the morning. After 1 or 2 I'm useless at work and after 9 at home, also dunzo.

I don't like getting up when it's still dark outside but getting up for the sunrise totally classic. I do like the idea of getting up early in order to get things done around the home and on the computer before then going to work tho, because i feel/am so unproductive at work generally.

Yeah, I generally leave work around 2:30 so I get some extra afternoon time, which kind of makes up for having to get to bed around 10:30.

My alarm is set for 5, but I've lately been ignoring it and getting up about 45 minutes later. That only gives me a half hour to get washed dressed and to the bus stop, which is cutting things pretty close. If I'm up at five I could do some qigong or a run or something. I also need to start making my lunch the night before.

But I get to leave the office at four, and go for a little walk and smoke before the bus arrives, which is cool.

Are you still on the 37 or has your new job changed this?

what time do you fuckers go to bed?

i often go to bed around 10.30 even though i don't have to be up until about 8.30 on weekdays. i really like sleep. if i had to get up at 5... it doesn't bear thinking about.

In bed by 9. Asleep (usually) by 10. Unfortunately I'm a light sleeper with two dogs in the room who bark at everything. I never go through a night without waking several times.

Yeah, it has. I'm work near the intersection of 290 and 183 now, so I take the 16 to Highland Mall, then transfer to the 339. It's about an hour each way, which is kind of a drag, and a big contributing factor in my thoughts of moving. If I can find a decent spot around St. Johns, that would be about perfect.

xpost - near midnight, usually. But I doze lightly during my AM commute, too.

wish I liked getting up early

Ugh..."I work" or "I'm working" - your choice. Not "I'm work", though.

xxpost

It's about an hour each way, which is kind of a drag,

I hear you. Bus as main mode of transport in Austin is dismal indeed. Unforunately I imagine a "decent" spot around St.Johns is next to impossible.

Usually I get to sleep around 11ish, wake up 5:30 if not earlier.

> Bus as main mode of transport in Austin is dismal indeed.

But Cap Metro is the best public transit in texas! That sticker near the front door proves it! You noticed fares are likely to double, right?

I get up at 8 so I can be at the office at 9:30. (I just arrived a few minutes ago.) I've had this schedule for the last 7 years, for the most part, so it'd be hard to break myself of it.

A few other things are stopping me:

a) The idea of waking up in darkness is depressing.
b) The idea of going to bed before 11:30 PM feels lame.
c) When I don't get home from twice-a-week band practice until 11 PM, I certainly don't want to go to bed right away; I need an hour or two to relax and have some me-time.

xpost

I ride free cause I'm UT staff. Saying best in TX isn't saying much, obv. BTW we live at 290 & Berkman, so yeah, that's my hood.

(sorry for thread derailment)

tracer hand is a man after mine own heart

i was up at 4am today

a) waking up in darkness means you get to see the sunrise
b) swinger!
c) have practice earlier

i rarely ever get up as early as i'd like, but this winter i was up at 5am at least once a weekend, and it was hunky dory. being up early means exercise time, real breakfast, and guilt-free leisure reading.

bear in mind, i am pretty capable of sleeping in until basically forever

The derail continues!

Really, I don't mind living in the 'hood too much (being a big fat ugly dude helps me feel safe.) But yeah, maybe Brentwood would be better. Better means spendier, though.

I'll revive the Austin thread to tell you about when G. lived around St.John's.

swinger?

I find it hard to get to sleep before midnight. I can't really imagine going to bed at 9pm. I'd feel like I was living for work or something.

i had a coworker that would get up and do laundry before coming to work in the morning (that's at a laundromat, not at home). he also had a longer commute than i. i thought he was insane. i have a very hard time making myself go to bed at a decent hour, but in the past 9 months or so i've been good about getting IN bed by 11:30 or 12, even if i'm not asleep yet. i have a feeling this is going to change soon when i get out of class at 9, have an hour commute home and then have to start doing homework or housework, etc.

xpost

Honestly, my health dictates this alot. My steady moods are dependent on a
regular schedule (there goes my bar-hopping days) and my energy levels are not reliable for much activity beyond work/home.

I can't really imagine going to bed at 9pm. I'd feel like I was living for work or something.

Precisely.

You realize everyone on this thread is so far claiming about the same amount of sleep. If you have the same number of awake hours, what are you losing?

....or living to get up early and do stuff you like in the morning?

The thought of seeing all these early morning times from that direction is making me feel quite unwell. I have to get up at 6:30 and even that makes me cranky and unbearable all week and grumble about having no evening me-time (but I don't cope well with less than 7.5h sleep and the getting-to-bed/sleep process always takes way longer than I think it will). There is no way I could move it any earlier. I am really not the morning type, I only start to feel awake around 10pm.

And I already feel like I effectively can't go out or I'd never get up in the morning (well, right now I'm transportless and can't afford to anyway, but...), and I think gigs etc tend to go on later in the US than here too.

When I did things like go to bars/gigs during the week I def. wasn't getting up at 5-something. But I was also a wreck and very unhappy then. In my case, cutting out those activities and getting to bed between 9-10 has made me much happier. So I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything by now being an early riser.

....or living to get up early and do stuff you like in the morning?

Plus I do like going to gigs and things. Night time is the right time.

I think I just need to find new bands. We almost never go to shows anymore (and that's how we met) just b/c we're tired of seeing the same old beer-punk garage crap and/or twangabilly-alt-country shows. They all seem the same now. (Pls to note I live in the so-called "Live Music Capital of the World")

Man, for real. I haven't been to see live music in ages - the last time was that Rakim/Ghostface show, I'm pretty sure. On the other hand, I'm old and cranky enough now that too much volume gets to pissing me off.

Haha, yeah, I'd have to think hard as to whether I've seen any live shows since SXSW. One, maybe two.

happiest time in life: when I could sleep from 4am to noon daily, go to work ~4ish and get off by 10:30-11. Fun schedule, but complete crap for getting things done - hard to take care of a speeding ticket at 2am.

now I try to be in bed by midnight, read for 45 minutes to an hour, wake up at 7:05 for teh work.

Yeah my friend works a 10pm newscast and has a similar schedule. It's great for going out but sucks for things like going out to dinner.

i got up at 10 today and feel like blaargh
i like the morning calm time but i also like the late-night time. i wish i didn't need 8 hrs of sleep a night in order to function. it is v hard to go to bed before midnight but i have been trying and sometimes it works.

y'know, the guy in my neighborhood who starts using his table saw at 8 am, that guy? that guy can get fucked.

He can get in line behind the guy who starts mowing his lawn at 8am on Saturday/Sunday. Fuck those guys with their respective power tools. Ugh.

I am the earliest riser out of anyone I know, with the possible exception of my mom. Both of my brothers, my wife, and all of our friends are sleepers-in. This means that I have gotten really good at being quiet in the morning, and I can make breakfast for 2 to 20 with no effort at all.

I love getting on the road really early b/c, as any other Angeleno will testify, traffic from 7:30 - 10:30 SUCKS.

I also love getting up early on the weekends b/c it means I have time for myself that I know no one is going to interrupt. Even in the face of a horrendous hangover, I will get up early and start the rehabilitation process. I just can't sleep in.

I did manage to sleep until around 10:30 two days in a row last month, and my wife was about ready to call the doctor. True story.

My circadian rhythms are hard-wired, yo.

He can get in line behind the guy who starts mowing his lawn at 8am on Saturday/Sunday

You have to do it that early! Otherwise it's way too hot.

I'm trying to remember the last time I went to bed before 3 AM and wasn't deathly ill.

I get up about 9:15.

Some cunts started putting in new fucking windows across the street at 9am last Sunday. Fuck those fucking fucks.

I kind of hate to sleep, though. Which explains the pot of coffee/pack of cigarettes a day thing, I suppose.

xpost

yeah i can understand lawn mowing that early, plus at least that's a constant steady drone instead of ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at random 30 second intervals.

the guy across the street from my mom's house used to mow his lawn as the sun went down, sometimes having to mow in the dark, with the headlights from his car beamed on his lawn. that's worse than 8 am, in a way.

I think it would be heat-wise. Not as cool that time of day. Otherwise it's just. . .bizarre.

All of our neighbors are active early with the exception of the drug dealers across the street. We're trying to run them out though so I don't care about them.

actually you know what? mowing the lawn is a huge waste of resources anyway. if i ever have a lawn, i ain't ever gonna mow it. save the earth y'all.

I WIN I LIVE IN CONSTRUCTION/WAR ZONE AND WE HAS JACKHAMMERING AT EARLY HOURS!

you can get a push mower thing that does not use gas

ha ha, I had an alcoholic neighbor who used to drink a LOT and then mow his lawn in the middle of the night. He was a chemistry teacher at our high school.

Also, I love to sleep, but I don't want to do it at night.

my parents used to wake us up early during summer break to go mow the lawn "before the sun gets too hot and fries it" or something like that. i think they were just sadistic and wanted to ruin summer vacation.

I will never do yard work of any kind. I might garden, grow some food, houseplants - but mowing/edging/watering my unnatural green lawn? DNW.

i ain't ever gonna mow it. save the earth y'all.

Your neighbors will report you to the city b/c you will be damaging their property values.

Also, yes, push mowers. These are great exercise.

my neighbors can get fucked too, them and their table saws.

tehresa, i have jackhammering, drilling and banging in MY BUILDING. and some of the lights/outlets didn't work because these jackassahole workmen don't know what they're doing. i think i "win" (which really means i lose).

The heat difference b/t 8 and 9? Not huge. The psychic differenc b/t 8 and 9 on the weekends? HUGE.

i think i also appreciate as much sleep as possible because my father has an insanely loud "normal speaking voice" and the vibrations of him talking downstairs coming up through the ceiling/my floor would wake me up. that and his propensity to decide it was time for us to get up and blast things like NPR PIPE DREAMS over the intercom.

it was really a warm and fuzzy household.

heat differencee between 8 & 9 can be 10 degrees here.

The heat difference b/t 8 and 9? Not huge

Where I live, yes.

xpost

did they finally sell it?
xpost

they took up an entire section of sidewalk the other morning over here. aslkdjg

Ally's old apartment in north-ass manhattan (little guatemala or whatever) was bombarded 24/7 by car alarms, screaming children, buckling metal plates on the streets going off like gunfire every time the fucking "limosine svc" rolled over 'em, and across the street from two bars that played norte polka bullshit at 160db every night, all night, non fucking stop. BUM, BA-BEE BA BUM, BA-BEE BAA BUMM.

It made me really appreciate the running joke in my cousin vinny where he can't get any sleep out in the country and then dozes like a baby in jail. Ahh, salad days of noize dreaming.

That is one of the main reasons why I moved back to Texas. NYC be too noisy.

haha tehresa time warp you are my kid from the future past. not only is my voice loud like that but I also STOMP STOMP STOMP around the house if I'm not dead sober and practicing ninjitsu

haha i do find it disturbing to try to sleep when i go to my parents' house and it is deathly quiet. however, i do not for a second miss the bushwick gunfire/4 a.m. chicken deliveries/2 a.m. garbage trucks/7-8 a.m. the same 2 reggaeton songs being blasted on repeat all day/pentecostals screaming/preaching in the street.

lol tom when my little sister was v. young, my dad would listen to npr news in the mornings and then discuss it with my mom, but his voice was so loud my sister one day asked my mom why she and dad fought every morning.

xpost - nope, but the landlord in his infinite wisdom is converting his dry cleaning shop into a 2-story yup pad. prolly will rent for like $2700 or some shit.

this week we haven't been able to stay there during the day (keep in mind my roomie does a lot of work from home and i, uh, would like to look for a job while i'm at home during the day) because of these assholes installing a sprinkler system. FOR A THREE-STORY, THREE UNIT BUILDING. the landlord claims it was a condition of the re-zoning, but they had to put it in all three units. which of course he didn't tell us. tuesday morning at 10 when the roomie is leaving is when he bothered to tell the roomie (who of course didn't tell me). same day. didn't say anything about it lasting all week, either.

on top of this he has the gall to demand $400 more in rent for september, with less than a month's notice. needless to say, motherfucker ain't getting A RED CENT from either of us ever again.

woah. 400 more is outrageous. so, where are you moving?

oh yeah and as stated elsewhere i took a shower by fuckin' candlelight this morning because ever since yesterday half of our ceiling lights and outlets don't work.

xpost - moving far far away from new york city, looks like. can't wait.

10 degrees be significant. I stand corrected.

TO THE WEST... WHERE A MAN CAN BE FREE

(from mowing the mofuckin' lawn) (and having neighbors)

haha. have fun!

hstencil i have recommendations

i just moved back from the West and i regret it already

Are we gonna have to listen to you bitch about how the West is so awesome all the time?

Are you moving to Arizona? Nevada?

I was just looking at job openings for a uni in West Texas. I want desert.

jaymc: yes! it's actually what i did for six months the FIRST time i moved to chicago.

Hurrah the West. Hurrah for no lawn to mow.

in the west you can get up early and go on awesome adventures before work

it's easier to get up early in the west
xpost!

I assume you guys are using The West to mean big sky country etc etc. Cause I remember in Seattle the lawn had to be mown every 3 hours.

i guess i mean the Coast
i think i am slowly burning out b/c i have no ocean

The ocean thing is my wife's excuse why we can never move to Minnesota.

I love the ocean but living by it is usually too expensive. A lake would suffice.

And does not have sharks (though snappers and/or gators are possible)

Mmm, gators.

Lake Michigan is a nice compromise, I find. Plus beaches to kill for.

i mean big sky country

midwest is too flat

Lake Michigan is very nice indeed. Too cold for me in those parts though.

but the ocean is the ocean - expanse
lakes are great and get me by, big rivers help as well
(slow burn out can't be blamed fully on geography obv haha)
xpost
i really wish i had gotten up earlier today. tomorrow for sure.

where is my power saw

and my screaming children and yappy dog

I have one of those three items.

Rrrob Lake MI might as well be the ocean as far as your EYES can tell, atho it is freshwater and not tidal. For "expanse" it is basically an ocean. That's the cool part.

Great Lakes fucking pwn, basically.

the Great Lakes are awesome like that
i still am terribly miffed that my grandpa never bought a place on lake huron in the 50s when they cost nothing

Stence never said where he was moving to. . .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0920467/

the pictures from the UP in michigan when my sister and parents went looked like carribean water it was so fucking blue and gorgeous. of course the scenery around is a little different, but awesome all the same!

I need to move to Oregon. Or northern Arizona. Maybe New Mexico. High-altitude spots in W. TX may be acceptable.

the main motivating factor to get me out of bed this morning was the fact that the earlier I get up, the sooner my day ends and the sooner I get to kick it with my wife and with our friends in from DC.

And the dog was pawing at me to take her out. Damn house trained little dawg!

Dogs definitely make you get up. And children.

I mean, in hindsight, after walking her, driving to work, having two cups of coffee, and actually getting some work done, I'm glad that she did wake me up. Instead of peeing all over me and my wife.

I need to move to Oregon. Or northern Arizona. Maybe New Mexico. High-altitude spots in W. TX may be acceptable.

-- milo z, Friday, August 24, 2007 5:48 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

strike TX, add parts of WY, SD (seriously!), MT, maaaaaaaaaybe ID, pockets of CO

My mom and her sibs all come from SD. Intense, existential shit out there.

people should get up earlier like me and take poops before they get to work

Agreed. Mugs be pollutin' the handicrapper.

An old man once told me about the Three Morning S's you always do before leaving the house: shit, shave and shower.

where were you yesterday when i needed you

or where was the old man

wait abbott why were you hanging out with my dad

although i am most definitely not an early morning person nowadays, i totally was when i was a kid. i used to get up, turn the tv on and stare at the static/the nonbroadcasting sign-thingy until the cartoons started (back in the days before tv was 24-7).

also, we iived near a huge set of bells, up on a hill. i was always intrigued by who the hell went up there to ring them, so i got up super early one day (i was maybe 6 or 7) and biked up there, and proceeded to wait for about 3 hours for the bell-ringer to show up. he didn't. i got in a shit-load of trouble when i got home, but finally received the explanation that the bells were automated.

hstencil i have recommendations

-- river wolf, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:03 (6 hours ago) Link

i just moved back from the West and i regret it already

-- river wolf, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:04 (6 hours ago) Link

let's talk, bro!

i haven't said where i'm moving because i don't know yet.

shoot me an email

the pictures from the UP in michigan when my sister and parents went looked like carribean water it was so fucking blue and gorgeous.

Lake water in the UP is memorably gorgeous. It's not always swimmable though. I spent most of my summers there as a kid. I remember a 4th of July parade where the temperature was in the lower 50s.

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NOBODY BETTER TALK ANY SHIT ABOUT MY HOTDOG STAND PERSONNEL OR I FUCKIN KILLEM 3

you bastards don't give a fuck for the little guy huh!

I forget which one I voted for.

no one gets up earlier than me

I get up at 4.30am every morning, but that is just to let my ducks out of their enclosure....then I go back to bed for a couple of hours.

i am awake

Not me.

getting up early means getting into new place easy