Recently I've tried to be like everyone else and surrender myself to the alarm clock. I've always been an early riser - sun comes up, I get up. Yes, I am amazingly unproductive and irresponsible and lazy once I do get up, but I'm up. I believe it was Woody Allen who said "half of life is showing up, and what the fuck is Neil Diamond doing here?" So there ya go. Meanwhile, my friends as well as every scene on tv/movies, dude get woken up by alarm, sighs, sets snooze for 5 more minutes and blissfully goes back to sleep. Somehow in 5 minutes they get more sleep than I do in a month. Meanwhile, with me it's like this:
ALARM SET FOR 7:30am
6:30 - wake up
6:31 - well, I got another hour, go back to sleep. Sleep, gotdammit!
6:33 - 57 minutes til alarm goes off.
6:34 - is alarm even on?
6:35 - paranoid outta my mind, check alarm. Hmm. Okay, it's on.
6:40 - 50 minutes til alarm...i should sleep...
6:42 - is alarm even on?
6:45 - paranoid, check alarm. Hmm. It's on.
6:47 - what if somehow the alarm don't go off, and I wake up and it' s next Thursday? wtf?
6:48 - well. it shouldn't matter, since I'm not asleep to begin with
7:00 - fuck!!!! gotta wake up in 30 minutes!!!
7:00 - which shouldn't matter, since I'm not asleep to begin with.
7:01 - determined to close eyes, sleep, take advantage of last 29 minutes
7:02 - determined to close eyes, sleep, take advantage of last 28 minutes
7:03 - determined to close eyes, sleep, take advantage of last 27 minutes
7:04 - determined to close eyes, sleep, take advantage of last 26 minutes
7:05 - determined to close eyes, sleep, take advantage of last 25 minutes
and on. and on. So much so that, ironically, by the time the alarm goes off, I'm fucking mentally worn out and tired as shit. Fucking drained. And I'll show up late to work for, ironically (again!), waking up too early. Unreal. I would've been better off sprinting outta bed at 6:30, or actually sleeping til 8:00. Fucking hell.
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