Morning Has Broken (Ooops!)

[anarchist_nomad]

Nine-thirty in the morning.

I've already done my morning chores, eaten breakfast (!), swam two kilometers, and now -- with a tall mug of tea in hand -- am settling down to my Monday morning video conference.

So this is what being a morning person feels like!

Comments

[tawneypup.livejournal.com]

Woweee! Good for you! It's 8am here, but so far all I've done is roll out of bed, get to work, and manage breakfast. *hugs* I hope the rest of your day goes as well!

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon! It wasn't a bad day. I just got home from playing a game of A Game Of Thrones with some of my Oxonian friends. Nice reward after a productive morning.

Hope you are having a good afternoon!

[stormdog.livejournal.com]

I really enjoy being a morning person. I just wish it happened more often for me. I suspect school plus my plan to commute by bicycle will go a long way toward making that happen.

I'm glad you're feeling good!

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have never been a morning person; dragging myself out of bed is always such a challenge. Much easier to stay up late and get things done at night. Still, I have to admit that it did feel pretty excellent to look at the clock, see it said half past ten, and marvel at how much I had already done. Same days, I've barely gotten up by that point! :-D

Also, I like your plan to commute by bicycle! Go you!

[stormdog.livejournal.com]

Historically, it's been really hard for me to get out of bed super early. I've been doing better than normal lately, though I'm going to have to get up a couple hours earlier starting next week! But yes, I have that feeling too. Realizing it's not even time for lunch and you've already done all your laundry and cleaned up your living space is refreshing.

Thanks for the bike enouragement. I've been doing a lot of commuting to work at school by bike, but that's only a couple days a week. But without it, I get very little exercise, so it's important to me to keep it up. And if I can do it four days a week instead of two, even better!

Rear panniers should be coming in the mail tomorrow, and I'm thinking about getting fenders for rain and studded tires for the snow, but these things all cost money. I plan to at least keep riding on days when I won't get soaked or skid into the path of a car. I'm trying to find resources online about proper clothes and layering for outdoor winter activities. I've never really been an outdoors-in-winter kind of person before.

Today, on the way to school, I got my first flat in quite a long time. 100 PSI air escaping makes quite a pop! Hopefully I'll get that resolved tomorrow and have a chance to make sure I know how to replace an inner tube.

[blaisepascal]

Nine-thirty in the morning.

I've already gotten up at 6, read my email, morning comics, RSS feeds, and LJ, collapsed on the couch for an hours nap/more sleep, taken a shower, walked to work, ate breakfast, mailed a card and cheque to a friend to help her replace a stolen bike, and have been at work for a half hour.

When I put it like that, except for the nap, it doesn't sound as unproductive has I had thought when I started.

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Wowza -- my proverbial hat is off to you, sir![*] You must be one of those mythical morning people!

For me, I often roll out of bed on Monday mornings at 09:25, which gives me just enough time to log into my video conference before it begins. To have woken at seven, eaten breakfast (which I almost never do) and swam two kilometers -- plus done all my morning chores and made tea before the meeting started -- is really rather unusual for me. I kinda liked it, actually. May have to try it again one of these days...

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[*] You're a smidge too late for my real hat, which I took off about twenty minutes ago.

[blaisepascal]

The thing is, I'm not a morning person by choice. I'm a morning person because getting up at 6 is about the only way I manage to get to work by 9(ish). The hour-long nap after being up for a half-hour is not a sign of someone who's bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at the crack of dawn.

I have a lot of respect for the quote by Richard Stallman, stating his enjoyment of the dawn: it's such a quiet and peaceful time to go to bed.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I'll put my hand up and admit to being one of those awful morning people- usually crank up around quarter so six!

Sir, on the other hand, is _not_ a morning person and needs to be persuaded :o)

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

And to you regular morning people, the feats I accomplished this morning -- documented in this entry -- are not particularly noteworthy. Whereas I am most definitely not a morning person; tis far more normal for me to roll out of bed just in time to log into the Monday morning video conference. So, for me, this morning is definitely out of the ordinary!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

I agree wholeheartedly - if you have to do something during "normal business hours", it's easier to just stay up until 9:30 AM and go to bed once you're done. (Whose idea was it to put the day people in charge of everything, anyway?)

When I was a child, I always wondered why they started school at ohgod o'clock (8:10) in the morning. My father worked a second shift, 4 to midnight; why couldn't they have a second shift for school as well?

And Judy "sings"(*), referencing Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), "Morning has broken... you'd better fix it..." Of course, somebody has to be already awake to fix it :-D

P.S. - Did you know about the gold-painted post boxes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Olympics_gold_post_boxes_in_the_United_Kingdom)?

(*) I love her dearly, but she's notoriously tone-deaf - and the first to admit it.

[blaisepascal]

I mentioned it above, but I'll put the full quote here, since I think you'd be appreciative as well:

It was actually a very beautiful thing to see a sunrise, 'cause that's such a calm time of day. It's a wonderful time of day to get ready to go to bed. It's so nice to walk home with the light just brightening and the birds starting to chirp; you can get a real feeling of gentle satisfaction, of tranquility about the work that you have done that night. -- Richard Stallman

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! Thank you!

When I worked the midnight shift at one or another of NYC's major radio stations, I'd often get to watch the Sun rise over Long Island... or the night set over the Hudson (yes, night sets!). And it gave me a secret feeling of satisfaction to be going home to sleep when all the day people were forcing themselves to get up and go to work :-)

[cheshcat.livejournal.com]

Congrats, Beeps! I'm very proud of you!
(Although your Current Music might need re-thinking in this context. :P)