abaya

I am not a morning person, never have been and never aspire to be, whatever the consequences of that may be. My brain does not work properly before 10am, and it functions best after 10pm. I work best when it's dark outside (which makes working in an Icelandic summer difficult--how can you pull an all-nighter when there's no night?!) and everyone else is asleep... I feel very charged and productive around midnight.

That said, if I have to wake up early, then I will, no question. Four years of college rowing had me up at 4:30am, 6 days a week, all year long, and working as a high school teacher for a couple of years had be me up by 5:30am at the latest to shower every day and prepare myself for teaching by 7:30am. Same thing happened last year when I worked at the fish factory starting at 7:30am... popped out of bed with the alarm at 6:30am and never looked back, never hit snooze. All of these activities were extremely high-energy, so there was no time to think about being tired... it was go-go-go, and that is probably the only way I was able to function (especially since I went to bed after midnight, if not 1am, most nights). That, and plenty of naps in the afternoon/evening. I crashed regularly to keep my sanity.

Since being with ktspktsp, I get up at 8am so we can both prepare for "work," because otherwise I will just sleep in and be totally unproductive.
But I still hate getting up before 10am, no matter what.

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