Morning Relativity

Mmph. I was up early today in order to get started on my trip to the mountains for the weekend. And by early, I don't mean 10:00 am (which actually is early for me). My alarm first started buzzing at 5:30. I usually build in a few rounds of clock smacking before really getting up. And since it was so early, I set it to buzz instead of having it play music. When it's getting into the time of day that I'm never awake, my brain will incorporate any music into my dreams, complete with intricate dance scenes, instead of waking up. Sneaky brain.

I have a theory about the relativity of mornings. It's like that theory that the closer to the speed of light you get, the more heavy you become, and so you'll never go as fast as the speed of light because you'll weigh so much, or be too dense, or some physics type of thing involving mass. Anyway, my theory is that there is a point at some time each morning that the closer to it you try to wake up, the slower you will move.

Say you need to leave to catch a train at 6:15 am. You can get up at 5:45, run around, and barely catch it. Or you can get up at 5:15, sit on the bed waking up for what feels like a minute, look over and realize that you lost half an hour and that it's now 5:45 and you run around, and barely catch it. It always ends up that the earliest I can move around happens to be 5:45, no matter how early I try. This has been true for at least the last 20 years, so I bow to the inevitable and sleep as late as I can.

In the typical style of my life, I arrived a bit early to the train station only to find my train delayed by a lot. And the internet connection doesn't work. Alas. While I've been sitting here actively ignoring some lady's foot bonking my row of seats (it seems she's bored and isn't content with mere foot tapping to burn off energy) I'm thinking it's finally late enough that my body wants coffee. My body gets cranky with any food or drink (including caffeine) before 8:00ish, which adds to the paradox of me trying to get up early. And so my adventure continues...

An Erinku:
it appears
plaid
is making
a come-back