Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Early Indeed

Well, It just happens to be 2:30 a.m. and here I am, still on my lousy lap top, blogging for the first time. Let me explain.

I have this habit of staying up rather later than is healthy, during the summer months. And then I tend to sleep deep into the afternoon hours to make up for it, and BAM, my day feels wasted.

So I've realized this trend and worked to correct it. The only way to do that is to get to bed earlier and set my alarm for at least 10 o'clock. But does that work? You guessed it, of course not. For one, when I hear my alarm blaring from across the room I stumble out of bed groggily, hit the off button, and then my head with it's almost freakishly tangled hair hits the pillow and I fall right back to sleep. Secondly, the getting to bed earlier. HA. What a joke, who really does that? It's not like I have a bunch of important things to do that keep me up, I only work three days a week, and as for studying, I'm a complete procrastinator- but I can't make myself go to bed early when there are so many books to read, so many shows to watch, so many stories to write, so many songs to listen to, and most importantly, so many friends to bother with lengthy messages.

Eventually, I convince myself that everything can wait for the morning (and by that I mean late afternoon) and so I close my computer, wash my face, floss, brush my teeth, tidy up my sheets, turn off the lights and climb into bed with my ipod. I relax and close my eyes, letting sleepiness wash through me with the music...

And then my eyes snap open. And some crazy animal instinct to get up and "accomplish something!" kicks in. All of a sudden I feel like sleep is a waste of time and I think of all the fun things I could be doing, and all of the "important"things I lazily didn't accomplish that day and what an awful person I am for that very reason. And then I get the urge to tell someone about it, but sadly enough (although it's happily enough for them), no one is awake at 3 in the morning.

So, my dear people of the blogging community (I hope you don't find that too forward of an address)- I come to you. I offer my humble greetings. Greetings! I hope this friendship works out between us.