Time of Day

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

Are you an early riser or a night owl? What time do you get up and why?

I definitely do not consider myself a morning person. No matter what time I go to bed, I just don't feel rested waking up to an alarm before at least 8 o'clock. But I've had to adjust to being up every morning by 6:30 at the latest, maybe 7 on the weekends if we're lucky and the 2.0 sleeps in a little. On MWF I get up at 5 for a 5:30 workout group. Not a day goes by that I don't wish I could roll over and go back to sleep until my body says it's time to get up.

I think it's interesting how different people function best at different times of day, and on different amounts and cycles of sleep. I have a good friend who does a lot of his best work after midnight. He's self-employed with bunches of different projects to juggle, so he's able to work on what he needs to when he needs to.

 

[jcolucci]

definitely morning guy here. I'm up between 430am-5am. Feed the dog, grab a cup of coffee, read headlines and check overseas markets, emails, etc. until head up to shower at 615...out the door around 640 and usually at my desk by 7. leave office generally around 4pm unless have meetings...may stop for cocktail or two on the way home but usually exhausted in the evening...spend evenings with wife and 16 y/o son but in bed sometimes as early as 830...usually no later than 930. read until 10ish if I'm able to stay awake.

 

[BillyL]

I'm usually up at dawn or shortly thereafter. If, I get an hour nap in through the day, I can hang in there for a game/movie until midnight plus some. If not, 10 - 10:30 on most nights . .

 

[coolwaterunc]

I'm the furthest thing from a morning person there is. I set my alarm for 5:30, only to press snooze every 10 minutes until about 7:15. My brain then tells me I'm a moron, so you better get out of bed before traffic makes you not get to work until 9 AM. So I roll out of bed, hop in the shower, shave and all that good crap and rush out the door as quickly as possible so I can get to work in time. It works, but it's not ideal.

 

[gunslingerdick]

Night Owl for sure.

I reluctantly get up about 6:45 am everyday. But when I get up, I don't like to f*ck around. I get showered and out the door as quickly as possible. And I don't really want to do a whole lot of talking until I've eaten and just had some time to gradually wake up. This is tough since I have two small kids that wake up bright eyed and are raring to go by 6:30 am every day.

I'm so tired every day, all day...until I get my kids in bed. And then wouldn't you know it, it's 9:00 pm and I feel like a new man. So I'll watch some TV or tinker around in my workshop until I get in bed between 11:30 and 12:00 am.

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

 

[gunslingerdick]

 

[TarHeelNation11]

This x 1,000,000. This is my life.

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

Mine too, except I usually can sleep just fine; I just want more.

 

[coryfly]

Night owl. I get up around 6:30 every morning but would sleep no telling how long if no one woke me up. I go to bed around midnight every night.

 

[Raising Heel]

Night owl. I usually catch a second wind around 10 and will often stay up until midnight or later on weeknights. The weird thing is, I'm usually in bed earlier on weekends. I'm almost always up by 7 though, every day of the week. Once in a rare while I'll roll over and sleep until 9, which is glorious.

 

[gunslingerdick]

Night owl. I usually catch a second wind around 10 and will often stay up until midnight or later on weeknights. The weird thing is, I'm usually in bed earlier on weekends. I'm almost always up by 7 though, every day of the week. Once in a rare while I'll roll over and sleep until 9, which is glorious.

That is so me too. I go to bed on the weeknights much later on average than I do on the weekends.

 

[UNC '92]

I've been a morning person my entire life. Even when I was little I was always first to rise. My great grandfather from my mothers side lived in Cape Hatteras and was a crab fisherman. He used to be up and out the door by 3 AM every morning. I remember when I was too little to go with him but I would wake up and watch him ride off in his boat. I always wanted to be like that. Hell, he'd finish the first part of his day by 8 AM and after we stacked up all the crab pots he'd cook breakfast and I'd wake everyone (usually just my dad by that time) up who wasn't yet awake.

He used to say there was no way you'd amount to anything if you didn't start your day before the sun came up. That was a different time though. He had to or they wouldn't eat. Everything he did was to survive. No time was wasted. Obviously things are much different now but that side of my lineage is still with me. But instead of repairing chicken wire pots, netting or working on a boat I'm up at 4 AM everyday trying to be quiet and not wake the lady of the house. Usually I am with coffee and sitting in my recliner watching the news or something until 5. Then I hygiene up and get the kids to school while my wife readies herself in peace and quiet.

We live in a much different time. I work from home now so I don't spend as much time "in the race" if you will. That extra time I now spend tinkering on small projects in my garage or out back, but it's for my amusement, not survival. I think my grandfather would roll over if he saw how things are now but he didn't understand the white collar world anyway. Not even back in the 70s. He would have never had time to attend a football game or coach his sons basketball team. So I feel blessed in that way.

 

[Grayhead]

5ish every morning. 6:30 is luxury sleep for me. Usually up before the alarm. I stay awake till I fall asleep in the chair. Usually just before 11. I do this even on weekends.