Me too, man
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And god forbid your circadian rhythm doesn't align and you fall asleep in class.
You can get referred for a drug test because only high people fall asleep during the day.
I have always struggled with sleep onset insomnia. In an ideal world, I'd probably sleep from around 5 am until noon, and my best working hours are from 7pm until 11pm, without fail. Even when I am exhausted from forcing myself to get up early for an extended period, I'll still perk up in the late evening, and struggle to sleep before 3am. This combined awfully with school.
I remember once that I was so exhausted, I literally fell asleep while walking, and I didn't wake up when I hit the floor. What's striking in hindsight is how little sympathy there was. I wasn't accused of being a drug user, but there were plenty of comments about laziness, which is absurd given that I was obviously severely exhausted.
A friend was the primary carer for a disabled relative, and this required her to get up at 5am each day, and to get up during the night to administer medication. She would often fall asleep in class, and she frequently got detention for this (which she would then often need to skip, to ensure she could get home in time to pick up siblings from school). Speaking with her years later, she lamented that if teachers had been more sympathetic and actually tried to understand what was going on here, it might've led to there being formal support to care for her relative. The amount of work she was doing was absurd for anyone, let alone a 13 year old, but she didn't know this, let alone that there were support channels to help young carers like her.
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Depends, I guess. If you’re healthy and have good organizational habits and are confident with someone who makes your breakfast and takes care of everything else while you eat, brush, poop, and dress before walking to the bus stop - and don’t need to be particularly coherent - 40 minutes sounds like plenty.
Why would you need anyone else? My entire morning routine is around 30 minutes and has been from childhood to adulthood. This includes poop, shower, brush, clothes. As a child it was breakfast like cereal. As an adult it's homemade coffee and a banana or bagel. When I worked at a hospital, I'd often get an egg sandwich made in the cafeteria or eggs and other typical American foods for breakfast.
Only recently working from home have I now graduated to making my own eggs, and sometimes egg sandwich. Takes all of 7 minutes.
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Why would you need anyone else? My entire morning routine is around 30 minutes and has been from childhood to adulthood. This includes poop, shower, brush, clothes. As a child it was breakfast like cereal. As an adult it's homemade coffee and a banana or bagel. When I worked at a hospital, I'd often get an egg sandwich made in the cafeteria or eggs and other typical American foods for breakfast.
Only recently working from home have I now graduated to making my own eggs, and sometimes egg sandwich. Takes all of 7 minutes.
Damn. Well you go ahead with that jigginess. I wish I could do that.
Me: *alarm goes off*
Me: (5 minutes later) Ooof.
Me: slide-walking to the bathroom with one eye halfway open
etc.
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Yep. Ours went from 0730 or so to 3:30. But it was a somewhat rural area, so if you took the bus you’d have to be on the bus by 0640-45, which means getting up at 0600 or so, and not getting home until after 4 pm. Then there was homework…
E: just looked at my former school’s sked. Started at 07:25AM.
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I guess I never really thought about it. Although now that i have kids that are young, I have to get my kid on a 7:20am bus, which means im up at like 6:45am, every school day, and it sucks. Then I relax for another hour and a half before I start my work at 9 am, lol. I will say the only nice part of starting that early is that they are done by like 2:45 while I am still working until 5 or 6 pm.
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this image really resonated with me:
it's from futurama btw, great show, i'm just re-watching it
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And god forbid your circadian rhythm doesn't align and you fall asleep in class.
You can get referred for a drug test because only high people fall asleep during the day.
You can get referred for a drug test because only high people fall asleep during the day.
Let me guess: Murica’ ?
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Hey what's wrong with going to bed at 8pm
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Hey what's wrong with going to bed at 8pm
The solace of burgling some joy out of life for the day despite its inevitable cost for tomorrow? I thought we all knew this
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Half of what public school teaches is just tax-funded brainwashing programs
(Private religious schools are 100% pure brainwashing)
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School is just to prepare you for working in a capitalistic hellhole.
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i still have nightmares about school
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Yep. Ours went from 0730 or so to 3:30. But it was a somewhat rural area, so if you took the bus you’d have to be on the bus by 0640-45, which means getting up at 0600 or so, and not getting home until after 4 pm. Then there was homework…
E: just looked at my former school’s sked. Started at 07:25AM.
And god forbid you do a sport or have a job after school
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Hey what's wrong with going to bed at 8pm
My mom don’t get home until 9pm most days from her second job. Sometimes later. My dad was a truck driver so I barely saw him. No one really taught me to take care of myself so I was stuck eating tv dinners most of the time. In that scenario going to sleep at 8pm is damn near impossible.
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Yea that only happens because capitalism needs your parents to slave their ass off which can only happen if their kids go to school earlier than their already early starting job
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Then you get old and look forward to getting in bed by 8PM.
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Schools - and some businesses - see getting up early as some kind of achievement, a trait to be proud of. A thought that was mirrored in the influencer scene with the insane 'grindset' videos. Get up early and get done more than the others... Completely ignoring that the amount of sleep we need doesn't change with how early you get up.
Some people get up early and have no problem with that, but that's not the case for everyone. In the dawn of time, it was better to have some people who get up early and some who prefer to stay up late: that way the tribe was better protected because the time where everyone was sleeping was minimized.
Now everyone who biologically tends to be more productive when they can work late and get up late is painted as lazy and forced to work against their inner clock.
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Schools - and some businesses - see getting up early as some kind of achievement, a trait to be proud of. A thought that was mirrored in the influencer scene with the insane 'grindset' videos. Get up early and get done more than the others... Completely ignoring that the amount of sleep we need doesn't change with how early you get up.
Some people get up early and have no problem with that, but that's not the case for everyone. In the dawn of time, it was better to have some people who get up early and some who prefer to stay up late: that way the tribe was better protected because the time where everyone was sleeping was minimized.
Now everyone who biologically tends to be more productive when they can work late and get up late is painted as lazy and forced to work against their inner clock.
Actually, many teachers oppose early start times, and perfect attendance awards are disappearing every year, too.
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Unpopular opinion, even if people didn’t wake up at 6:30 people would still be complaining [insert time here] is to early
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Hey what's wrong with going to bed at 8pm
Well, when you get out of your after school activities around 1700-1800 hours, and then have to spend another hour or two, minimum, on homework and projects, and then want to have a little bit of socializing and play squeezed in after the required time spent with family....
Yeah, good luck with that 8pm thing.
