"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Sleep

~Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

~There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
~Unkown

Man, the days go by so fast anymore. I didn't realize it'd been almost a week since I blogged. I sleep too much in the summer. I am a total night owl-which means I end up sleeping all morning. Generally I go to bed around 3 am and get up around 11am... sometimes later. There's my 8-9 hours a night :)

I know it's a terrible schedule. It's not just a summer thing though... thinking about it. I did about the same thing in school. My roommate stayed up later than I did-every single night. Didn't matter what time I went to bed. I like night time anyway, so I stayed up until 3 or 3:30 no big deal. Second semester my classes started at 11 am three days a week and 9:30 two days a week. So, five days a week I didn't have to get up until 9:30 or 10:00.

It was nice and it felt normal. All my roommates stayed up pretty late and Saturdays my apartment was dead until about noon. But now it just feels like I should switch it around. And somehow I always end up going to bed at 3. It's like impossible to get to bed earlier.

Two nights ago I decided to get to bed early. I figured my body was on a time clock of 8-9 hours and I could switch things around. I was in bed by 12:10-and not a bit tired. I'm used to it being silent when I go to bed and the sounds of the dryer and the TV and everyone else still awake drove me crazy. My MP3 Player has been having issues staying charged so I borrowed my brother's and listened to music for a while. And Bronwen visited a few times-to jump all over and lick me or to curl up next to me to sleep :)

It took me over two hours to fall asleep. It didn't help. I slept longer. I wasn't tired last night. I prefer being up at night and I am NOT a night person-just ask my family. I am rude when I wake up... and not easy to get up. I have to admit I do like the morning time... once I'm up and ready for the day. But getting up is probably THE hardest part of any day.
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