It has to do with industrialization and the imposition of an unnatural schedule on the human psyche. So, you get heart surgery but you have to wake up before 6.
I have to wake at 5:45AM too, and in the winter when the sun hasn't yet risen my body is sluggish until the sun's actually up. I'm all for living by circadian rhythms, but I'm not exactly cut out for the life of a hunter/gatherer. Maybe I could get someone to sponsor my poetic works and quit my job that requires these early, early hours?
I used to drive past a Burger King on my way to work too too early in the morning. They opened at 5:30. Every day I would think, "well, at least I don't have to get up this early in the morning to work at BK."
When I work I always have to get up at five... Five is not a good time to be awake! The morning paper hasn't even arrived! You know how dark it is in sweden at five a'clock in the morning during autumn? It's not even close to being morning! Morning happens at least five hours into the future and there's only scary drunk people on the subway!
But to answer the question, it sucks for all kinds of reasons. And it doesn't stop sucking. Ever.
i never minded getting up at an excessively early hour because it reminds me of when I was little and we would get up super early to catch our first flight out of the local airport on the way to vacation, so I associated early mornings with something positive. anything before five thirty is okay. but between five thirty and nine thirty, blegghhhh. something about the sun not being out, probably. or that it reminds me of getting up to catch the school bus- negative association. -_-
this is either very lazy or very intelligent, but I make it a point to never get up that early - I don't have a class before 9:30, and I definitely don't work that early. Unless there's an international flight to catch, you won't ever see me up near then.
piggy: option one - really? Scientifically proven? Gracious!
As for why it sux to get up for work at 5.45 am: well, as far as I am concerned, getting up to go to work, at anytime, sux! Having to wake up at a predetermined hour (or be woken up by someone else who has to go work early), sux. Anything which is not waking up naturally, when you want to, sux!
However. Like all good rules, this, too, has an exception: sex does not fall into this category. Being woken up from a slumber by a steady, languorous, tease.. doing all sorts of reprehensible things... that is always okay ;)
depends on how dark it is. i used to have no problem getting up superearly as long as it was light. once it gets to the point where it is STILL dark at bloody 730 in the morning, i dont want to get up till 8...
abb: I am happy to blame our industrialised world for almost anything (or TV? Yes, TV too... ahem ) aaaaanyway - long before people would get up early, otherwise they'd die from cold or starvation. A cow needs milking very early, whether you want tohang on to a dream or not. But it never bothered me when it was about animals. It does bother me (and even at 7:30) if it is for the office - even though I like my job. Hum... weird. Ok, let's blame the industrialised world!
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It has to do with industrialization and the imposition of an unnatural schedule on the human psyche. So, you get heart surgery but you have to wake up before 6.
I have to wake at 5:45AM too, and in the winter when the sun hasn't yet risen my body is sluggish until the sun's actually up. I'm all for living by circadian rhythms, but I'm not exactly cut out for the life of a hunter/gatherer. Maybe I could get someone to sponsor my poetic works and quit my job that requires these early, early hours?
I used to drive past a Burger King on my way to work too too early in the morning. They opened at 5:30. Every day I would think, "well, at least I don't have to get up this early in the morning to work at BK."
When I work I always have to get up at five... Five is not a good time to be awake! The morning paper hasn't even arrived! You know how dark it is in sweden at five a'clock in the morning during autumn? It's not even close to being morning! Morning happens at least five hours into the future and there's only scary drunk people on the subway!
But to answer the question, it sucks for all kinds of reasons. And it doesn't stop sucking. Ever.
i never minded getting up at an excessively early hour because it reminds me of when I was little and we would get up super early to catch our first flight out of the local airport on the way to vacation, so I associated early mornings with something positive. anything before five thirty is okay. but between five thirty and nine thirty, blegghhhh. something about the sun not being out, probably. or that it reminds me of getting up to catch the school bus- negative association. -_-
this is either very lazy or very intelligent, but I make it a point to never get up that early - I don't have a class before 9:30, and I definitely don't work that early. Unless there's an international flight to catch, you won't ever see me up near then.
piggy: option one - really? Scientifically proven? Gracious!
As for why it sux to get up for work at 5.45 am: well, as far as I am concerned, getting up to go to work, at anytime, sux! Having to wake up at a predetermined hour (or be woken up by someone else who has to go work early), sux. Anything which is not waking up naturally, when you want to, sux!
However. Like all good rules, this, too, has an exception: sex does not fall into this category. Being woken up from a slumber by a steady, languorous, tease.. doing all sorts of reprehensible things... that is always okay ;)
depends on how dark it is. i used to have no problem getting up superearly as long as it was light. once it gets to the point where it is STILL dark at bloody 730 in the morning, i dont want to get up till 8...
i don't know if it's 'real' science. but i did read this somewhere...
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abb: I am happy to blame our industrialised world for almost anything (or TV? Yes, TV too... ahem ) aaaaanyway - long before people would get up early, otherwise they'd die from cold or starvation. A cow needs milking very early, whether you want tohang on to a dream or not. But it never bothered me when it was about animals. It does bother me (and even at 7:30) if it is for the office - even though I like my job. Hum... weird. Ok, let's blame the industrialised world!