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Posted 7/28/2013 2:28 AM (GMT 0)
Just noticed a similar thread in the CP Forum. I thought it might be interesting to start one here.

I have always been one of those non-morning/very late night people. In fact, when I submit course requests for teaching assignments, I always joke that 8:00 AM classes are uncivilized!!

As a college student, I did a LOT of work very late at night. In fact, it was not unusual for me to do maybe 3 consecutive all-nighters (and then crash for a day). As a mathematician, most of my serious research was done in the wee hours.

It is not unusual to have me perusing HW at 2:30 AM.

Any compadres?

Mel

Posted 7/28/2013 2:33 AM (GMT 0)
wait - there are 8:00 am classes at college?!?

No - I am not a late night person but since a lot of HW folks are on the opposite coast, it just seems like I am up late at night.
Posted 7/28/2013 2:57 AM (GMT 0)
i'm usually up until at least midnight.  I don't schedule any work until 9:30 or 10 or so cool .

ed

 

Posted 7/28/2013 4:09 AM (GMT 0)
I have always been a night person. I am jealous of people who can fall asleep early. I don't want to be a night person, but I am.
Posted 7/28/2013 5:31 AM (GMT 0)
* <crickets> *

Guess not. ...
Posted 7/28/2013 6:10 AM (GMT 0)
I agree

Mel
Posted 7/28/2013 7:33 AM (GMT 0)
Am a member of the night owl club and its been like that since my college days. Since I'm in the Hawaiian Time Zone, when I read/post here, you east-coasters' are done with breakfast and off to work (or the lake).
Posted 7/28/2013 8:10 AM (GMT 0)
It's 3:10 AM and I just started my second/last cup of coffee.
Posted 7/28/2013 8:42 AM (GMT 0)
I'm usually up by 3 am, does that make me a night person?
Mike,
Posted 7/28/2013 8:45 AM (GMT 0)
If I don't have to babysit the next day, I am usually up quite late.  It does present problems at times because my Hubby is a morning person!
Posted 7/28/2013 8:51 AM (GMT 0)
Still dark here in Philly...I can hear either a racoon or cat knocking over my trash can to find some scrap of food.
Posted 7/28/2013 10:35 AM (GMT 0)
Mel, usually I'm one of those 'early to bed' gals - stems from my days of commuting into NYC and having to set the alarm for 5:30 every workday. My body still hasn't adjusted to not having to get up, but since John gets up at 6:00 am on work days, I'm still up early with him.

CMetal, yesterday I was up at 5:00 am and was sitting here with the windows open and heard coyotes roaming somewhere on my property and making the most god-awful noises...made my hair stand up as it sounded like hyenas 'laughing'.

Where were you (on HW) a few weeks ago when I couldn't sleep due to sciatica? I was roaming the house at 2:30 in the morning trying to walk off the leg pains and would often find myself walking to the computer and coming to HW to see what I missed (usually not much).
Posted 7/28/2013 10:40 AM (GMT 0)
I don't know what kind of person I am. The medications I take have varying side effects that  make me drowsy during the day and wide awake at night.  And sometimes the opposite.  It is not unusual for me to go to bed at 9 or 10 and be wide awake a couple hours later. And then be up and down the rest of the night before finally "starting my day" at 5. Fortunately my work schedule allows me to take a short nap most days or I really would be dragging. So in some ways I am a night person, but not by choice.
Posted 7/28/2013 10:45 AM (GMT 0)
It depends what shift I'm working. Rotating schedules suck.
Posted 7/28/2013 3:44 PM (GMT 0)
Guess I'm on the other end of the scale - I'm an early morning guy for sure. I really like waking up to the sun rising, and the stillness that comes with that until everyone else out there starts to wake up and ruin everything! I'm up by 4:30 or 5:00 every day, cardio and then during the week off to work early - a) because of my position I put in lots of hours and b) I really like this earth before everyone else wakes up!

It's even better when we're up at the lake - nothing like sitting on the end of the dock as nature wakes up. . . . And then on the other end of the day I'm back out there watching the sun set across the lake before calling it a day.

Of course because of that I don't have staying power much after 10 or 11 at night!

Great, relaxing topic Mel, thanks for putting this out here.
Posted 7/28/2013 3:49 PM (GMT 0)
Is Mel sleeping now?
Posted 7/28/2013 4:10 PM (GMT 0)
Im up at 4 and in bed at 7-8, tho it can take me an hour and 1 1/2 to sleep and even then I sleep for 2 to 3 up for a bit, sleep a bit. Im used to the broken sleep. Then again sometimes, to catch up I will have a long day time nap and then cant sleep at nite so on and on. I'm happy with it all, with reading ,writing and contemplating{rithmetic}. As a younger and single man working shift type work, living in the City, I was all over the map. Again a tear to my eye, tee hee. Lucky I came Hawaii, it settled me. My wife is a saint, you can imagine, a nice quiet country girl of japanese heritage…. Love of my life. Probably TMI, again. I try, but not terribly hard.
Posted 7/28/2013 4:56 PM (GMT 0)
I am fairly flexible in my sleeping habits. I can easily be up and awake at any time ... except ... dawn. I am always sleepy and useless while the sun is coming up. Not a morning person. Occasionally I do have some sort of commitment that gets me out of bed early and I am a wreck all day. In that respect I am like Count Dracula in the movies: if I am not in the sack when the sun comes up there is going to be trouble...
Posted 7/28/2013 4:58 PM (GMT 0)
Cmet:

I get up about 9:15 AM on non-working days and 7:00-7:30AM on working days (I turn in by 1:00 AM if I am working the next day)

Mel

Posted 7/29/2013 12:46 AM (GMT 0)
Night person... hmm... well, if given a preference I would say yes I am a night person. Unfortunately I have a day job which requires me to get up at 4am (which is technically still night). I would much rather stay up til 0400 and go to work at 1500. Oh well, if wishes were horses......
Posted 7/29/2013 1:09 AM (GMT 0)
……..beggars would be Kings!
Posted 7/29/2013 9:07 AM (GMT 0)
I am like Yooper. Been an early riser my entire life. I am up around 5:00 am each morning and love the quiet. I delivered morning news papers in high school and always loved the sensation of the city coming to life in the early morning. The sounds of the delivery and garbage trucks and the smell of the bakery. In the summer you could smell the flowers in my customer's gardens and the crickets were chirping and cicadas singing. The air in general had an earthy perfume and stillness. As the morning progressed you could feel the energy level begin to rise and the world would start to hum. But I have always loved those few peaceful hours in the early morn and watching the sun light up the sky.

Don

Posted 7/29/2013 2:11 PM (GMT 0)
Ditto Don and Yoop.....morning is the best. I too passed papers as did my sons. Last week on vacation on one of New York's finger lakes I was treated two mornings at dawn, on the dock with a cup of green tea, to a bald eagle flying up the lake not 200 yards away looking for breakfast. Something Mel probably will never see. Just wish I had Ed there to perform his photo magic. On the other hand my wife hates to get up before breakfast!!
Posted 7/29/2013 2:21 PM (GMT 0)

JNF said...
Last week on vacation on one of New York's finger lakes I was treated two mornings at dawn, on the dock with a cup of green tea, to a bald eagle flying up the lake not 200 yards away looking for breakfast. Something Mel probably will never see.

If mel wants to see bald eagles he can sign up for next June's GFMPH Alaska outing. Coastal Alaska has eagles like Central Park has pigeons.
Posted 7/29/2013 11:06 PM (GMT 0)
I like the saying, "If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets."  One of my mom's favorites.

Morning person for sure.  I'm up at 5am every weekday, and usually by 6:30am or so on weekend days when I can sleep in that late!

My wife on the other hand is a midnight to 9am type, so we have a serious mismatch.  I don't mind being up before her, but she really gives me guff about heading to bed by 9:30pm.  My current treatment-induced fatigue has generated some more sympathy for needing sleep, fortunately.

As others said, I like that calm groove of the world slowly waking up.  Not many cars in my way going to work early either.

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