On being a night person

I have never been a morning person. I have always done most of my living from the afternoon to the early morning. This is, apparently, socially unacceptable. If you are like me, you've encountered plenty of people who cannot understand that this is just the way your body functions. If you sleep until 2 in the afternoon, you obviously slept way too much. You could not have possibly stayed up until 6 in the morning. If you stay up extremely late, you are crazy. The fact that everyone has different times where they naturally function better escapes the people who were blessed with a body that functions ideally at the times society has deemed correct.



My body likes to screw with me. I woke with a start around 6:20 am four days ago, and have been on a fairly normal sleeping kick since then. This happens occasionally and it always leaves me feeling terrible. I clearly can go to bed and get up early, but it isn't right for me. I wake up feeling wrong and spend the rest of the day in that slump. My body always eventually returns to the habits that work best for it, but I always get to spend about a week feeling like crap.

Of course, the horrible terribleness of me on a mornings kick is all in my head. At least according to those same people who think that being a night person makes me a bad person. I wish society would offer some sort of reasonable alternative to those who just live better at night. I would not like to work as an overnight gas station attendant or any of the other awful jobs one can have. Of course, thinking like this makes me think of Rant by Chuck Palahniuk and god knows that didn't go well.

I guess I'm just feeling a little pressured by myself and others to keep up this morning person shtick, no matter how poorly it works for me. I'm sure once my mini-vacation from work is over it'll sort itself out. I won't be exhausted at midnight if I get off at 9:30. Hopefully.

Not really sure where this came from, but it was in my downloads folder under "Weasels" so I uploaded it. Now you get to look at it.

Did you guys see this awesome picture Josh did after old-timey Spongebob? I think the pineapple TARDIS might be the best part! Although it's all pretty amazing.