Srsly
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I remember doing that well into my early 20s, but instead so that I wouldn't spend nearly as much on $7 beers. Now if I'm not home by midnight at the absolute latest I turn into a grouchy pumpkin.
I like to be home by 11, so there's room for a little chill time before I actually have to go to sleep!
Getting home and immediately going to bed is the worst!
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I like to be home by 11, so there's room for a little chill time before I actually have to go to sleep!
Getting home and immediately going to bed is the worst!
I feel that, if I've been tying one on I'm not likely to crash out immediately, but being home at a reasonable hour certainly saves from going overboard.
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Man, English is so wacky. After reading that post twice the structure fell apart in my mind, and I'm a native speaker. Hats off to anyone who picked up the language along the way.
"This can't possibly be the same 9PM at which I once would prepare for outings."
Does this work better, or am I crazy?
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I remember doing that well into my early 20s, but instead so that I wouldn't spend nearly as much on $7 beers. Now if I'm not home by midnight at the absolute latest I turn into a grouchy pumpkin.
10pm seems late, lol.
Then again, my social circle would get off work, usually staggered by a few hours as people got off.
Then we'd head to the nearby watering hole and join in the festivities that were ongoing from people who opened lol.
Shop doors were shut by 8pm, give the floor a quick pass to clean up any major debris left over from the day (IE: run the push broom over all floors, scoop up, and dump) and then just making sure that a few things were stocked sufficiently for the morning. Like commonly used oils for oil changes.
Now... well,
Bed time is 9pm. I'm not currently working, but want to maintain a reasonable day shift for when I find work. I prefer overnight, but that doesn't seem to be an option where I moved.
Wife gets up, I get up, and start with applying for jobs and housework. Weekends mean she is working 7a to 7p, medical work, so standard. So we're up by 6:30 to get some food/caffeine in us before she works - though, if neither of us are hungry, I'll acquire any caffeine needed and cook later. I'm not cooking at 6:30am. Period. I will burn myself, one of the animals, or my wife, or the house down so.... no, I need caffeine first, lol.
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I like to be home by 11, so there's room for a little chill time before I actually have to go to sleep!
Getting home and immediately going to bed is the worst!
I can't. Literally can't.
I will not fall asleep unless I spend some time unwinding first. Preferably alone.
No, not a masturbation reference, but I just need some quiet and not have to remember every little social rule that no one ever explained to any extent, at least to me, seems like others have an idea though.
Its a time to let go of social anxiety build up.
Coworkers make the anxiety worse, friends too, my wife as well. It builds up and I need a couple hours by myself to let that fade before I have a chance of sleeping, even with my meds, some of which are prescribed simply to knock my ass out.
Then again, as a teenager, I stayed up 9 days straight before a doctor snowed me and I crashed. No, it wasn't some attempt, it was straight insomnia - it sucked tremendously. Also, no, not coke, being "snowed" on an EEG (brain waves) means the medication has caused such a response in the brain, you're just getting the EEG equivalent to static on an untuned channel, so I have issues with sleep, and have since childhood.
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It is the combination of the pandemic lockdowns made people yearn less going on night outs, and also the price of drinks have become too damn high!
The price of everything is too damned high.
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"This can't possibly be the same 9PM at which I once would prepare for outings."
Does this work better, or am I crazy?
Yes, but with "fixing" the structure, you have robbed it of colloquialism. Maybe it's just me projecting.
I lived among non-native speakers for the longest time, and shaped my English using my knowledge of other languages to bridge some gaps in communication. Now I'm back to a native environment and catch myself slipping up with my invented phrases.
The thing is, I can't find another combination of words to convey the exact sentiment so succintly, even though I'm not sure it's gramatically correct.
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Man, English is so wacky. After reading that post twice the structure fell apart in my mind, and I'm a native speaker. Hats off to anyone who picked up the language along the way.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]This is a slightly wacky sentence. It's not wrong - it does make sense and communicates the idea, it just forces you to do a bit of work to straighten it out in your head.
I think the biggest issue is the way they unnecessarily used present continuous tense with "be starting to get".
It's convoluted and adds syllables. You could eliminate the "be" and "to" entirely and change it to "start getting". That starts with an active verb which feels stronger and more natural.
So then it would be:
"This can't possibly be the same 9pm I used to start getting ready for a night out at".
That preserves the flow & punch of the delivery but shortens & simplifies it a lot without losing anything imo.
Also ending a sentence with a preposition can be awkward. You read "at" and you need to refer it back to 9pm near the start of the sentence. Plus it comes after another preposition, which itself is not acting as a preposition but as part of the nouned phrase "night out", so you end up with "out at". Again, not wrong, but it can be awkward. I think using "at which" can move it closer to the noun it's referring to but it's not necessarily better that way.
Make that change and it's, "This can't possibly be the same 9pm at which I used to start getting ready for a night out".
It's a little easier to parse, but honestly I think it loses something, because it doesn't have a casual delivery. "At which" is evidence that the sentence was very deliberately constructed. It adds a syllable and loses some punch. I'd stick with just the first change personally.
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This is a slightly wacky sentence. It's not wrong - it does make sense and communicates the idea, it just forces you to do a bit of work to straighten it out in your head.
I think the biggest issue is the way they unnecessarily used present continuous tense with "be starting to get".
It's convoluted and adds syllables. You could eliminate the "be" and "to" entirely and change it to "start getting". That starts with an active verb which feels stronger and more natural.
So then it would be:
"This can't possibly be the same 9pm I used to start getting ready for a night out at".
That preserves the flow & punch of the delivery but shortens & simplifies it a lot without losing anything imo.
Also ending a sentence with a preposition can be awkward. You read "at" and you need to refer it back to 9pm near the start of the sentence. Plus it comes after another preposition, which itself is not acting as a preposition but as part of the nouned phrase "night out", so you end up with "out at". Again, not wrong, but it can be awkward. I think using "at which" can move it closer to the noun it's referring to but it's not necessarily better that way.
Make that change and it's, "This can't possibly be the same 9pm at which I used to start getting ready for a night out".
It's a little easier to parse, but honestly I think it loses something, because it doesn't have a casual delivery. "At which" is evidence that the sentence was very deliberately constructed. It adds a syllable and loses some punch. I'd stick with just the first change personally.
I think I was able to bring the 'at' closer to the time, but I'm not sure it's correct:
'This can't possibly be the same 9pm I used to start getting ready at for a night out'
I'm tempted to remove the 'used to' and just put it in simple past for brevity, but that would hold back half the punch.
This is one of my favorite types of discourse. Polishing jokes and grammar in the gravitas it deserves.
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I think I was able to bring the 'at' closer to the time, but I'm not sure it's correct:
'This can't possibly be the same 9pm I used to start getting ready at for a night out'
I'm tempted to remove the 'used to' and just put it in simple past for brevity, but that would hold back half the punch.
This is one of my favorite types of discourse. Polishing jokes and grammar in the gravitas it deserves.
Yeah, that scans for me. It breaks up "getting ready...for a night out", but I think it works.
I think honestly it's just a reality that, if brevity is the soul of wit, then a punchy sentence needs to be compact and that means you need to get a bit funky with the grammar, so maybe the audience has to do a little work.
Maybe also "at which" is fine too, and I was just overthinking it.
One thing I won't bend on is that "to be starting to get ready" is objectively worse in every respect and is the main thing that throws people about the sentence.
