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[spacebug]

I have decided that there are things I like about getting up early.
I like the quiet time by myself in the morning.
I like morning tea and coffee. I even kind of enjoy watching the sun come up on my walk to the bus stop.
I love being done with work before 5pm.

But I hate getting sleepy so early and I hate feeling so tired before I'm up for a bit; I've long adored staying up until much too late, and I feel like I can't anymore. My favorite creative time is between 1 and 5 in the morning, when I can do it.

Naps generally don't work so well for me (if I do fall asleep, I have to be *really* worn out, and then I feel super groggy when I wake up again, which is worse than being tired.) Can one practice napping? That seems weird.

Could I humbly request more hours in a day, please, or maybe to need less sleep to be functional?

That'd be great, thanks.

Comments

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

It gets easier the longer you do it. Art-time is still really hard though.

[vaxjo.livejournal.com]

Okay, I tell you what; you can have a couple extra hours on Mon, Tues and either Fri or Sat if you can return the time to me on Wed, Thur and the other weekend day when I need it.

[echoegami.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really miss both art-time around 3-4am and waking up early-early. I'm currently stuck in limbo-land of second shift. I hates it!

[happydoc.livejournal.com]

Shifting schedules is a bitch but after doing way too much of it, I've come up with an approach. I've stopped thinking in terms of what time the world says it is in favor of what time I feel it is. For example, no matter when I wake up, I'm worthless for about the first eight hours. This makes it a perfect time for jobs or any other busy crap I couldn't care less about. In contrast, hours 10-15 are when I'm feeling most creative. If I'm sleeping until 1pm, this makes late night my creative time. If I'm getting up at 7am (why I would do this, I don't know?), then evening is my creative time and while this is when people are trying to make you be social (quality time, whatever), you just remember that it's your latenight creative time conveniently transplanted to the rest of the worlds evening time slot and all of these distractions should piss right the hell off.

[karlyn-desteno.livejournal.com]

damn, that's quite a good approach. I'm amazed that you can pull it off though, what with the confusion of daylight/darkness and the distraction of people wanting you to be social etc. I'm totally impressed--I should definately try that.

[llythefaerye.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear to more hours!