My alarm is set 10 minutes early so i can hit the sleep button and have a few minutes doze. My alarm is set to classic FM, on the whole its nice to wake up to a soothing piano or strings peice, but the odd occasion when they decide to play wagner, bah, apocolypse rising now is a good term
If i have something really important to get up for i usually wake up every half hour for the entire night before, so getting up is not a problem, as long as no-ones around that i can be grumpy at.