SHHHHHHHH! Please don't talk too loudly right now, it's 12:51 and almost everyone in my apartment is asleep. So, don't slam doors, don't walk on the squeaky boards, and don't do dishes...Cause remember? It's 12:51!!!!
Um, that's 12:51 p.m., by the way. Not a.m.
Welcome to the glamorous life of theater. We stay up late, eat dinner past midnight usually, and hardly ever see morning. Unless we have a matinee, and then it feels like a 2 o'clock show is at the first light of dawn for us.
The other day, I had to go down to the super's office in order to ask them something about a refund they owe me. She didn't have the pertinent information at the time, so asked when she could call me in the morning, aka, what time do I wake up?
I pause and think for a moment, do not have the courage to tell her the real time I wake up, and so say, Uh, about 10:30...
At hearing me say 10:30 (which is earlier than I usually wake up, to be honest), she stifles laughter and I immediately feel the need to explain that I work at night and therefore end up sleeping later than normal blah blah blah...She doesn't really care and to be honest it isn't a big deal and I don't have to explain it to her.
But I still did.
I guess I realize that most of the world is up and working much earlier than me...
But back to the point, please be very very quiet right now, because it's almost 1 o'clock and all my roommates are sleeping...;-)
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Something weird that happens with me is that I now wake up between 7 and 7.30 every morning but it doesn't make me grumpy like I'd think it would (I LOVE to sleep in) because I know it's 10 to 10.30 on the east coast. Strange, I know.
Are they awake now?
I've been sleeping in this week until about 6:40am. I usually get up around 6. Yay me. Not my first preference for a wake-up time.
Jase--that's so funny that you are thinking," well at least it is still sleeping in compared to all my friends in the east" and that makes you feel better!!!!
Peaj--mad props to you for getting up so early...And yes, as of 3:23 p.m., they are all awake. And...eating breakfast...;-)
Just as a creature of the wild, sleep is not a scheduled phenomenon for me. I only succumb to the sweet embrace of somnolence when the apparatus that is my body is incapable of the most basic human functions. It is then that I abandon the trappings of worldly thoughts and drift peacefully onto the river of my subconscious imagination, those these voyages are rare and often truncated.
very cerebral, drew
Drew: you get an "A" on your essay! (and I used to be an English teacher)
Jase: You will always think as an easterner. It's in your blood.
Jess: Remember you were born asleep. I think that says how much you love sleeping! Not to even wake up for your own birth!
Drew, you write like a Transcendentalist--Emerson even! I am impressed. I vaguely remember reading recently that lots of sleep has some kind of cancer-fighting effect. So guys, continue to sleep on and be healthy!
Pop, I know, doesn't Drew become very eloquent when he is sleep deprived?!?!
Mom--I guess I will always love sleep--it's part of my inheritance, since I was born that way;-)
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