There's so many things for us to do

[ewx]

[Poll #1035490]

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[ewx.livejournal.com]

Oh, please excuse the missing articles.

[emperor]

I noticed last time I cycled through the park that they've cleaned that building. I'm glad you recorded it on camera first.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

It's all relative. I'm much more of a morning person than M, because if left to my own devices I'd get up at about 7.30 and go to bed about 10.30. But much less of a morning person than angoel, who if you don't physically tie him to the bed will wake up at 5.30am and go and bake muffins.

[rmc28]

Generally, once I'm fully awake, there's no chance of going back to sleep. So if I get woken up around 5am, I may as well do something fun with the time. It is no easier if I get woken at 10am, but if I have breakfast that late I risk migraines :(

I am becoming quite expert at waking up just enough to nurse the baby and/or go to the loo (that was more when pregnant and SOMEONE danced on my bladder) without triggering the "now I can't go back to sleep" reflex. Or I'm just too tired most of the time, and nursing has it's own built-in soporific. Changing a nappy is less easy to go back to sleep after unless I'm very tired.

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

nursing has it's own built-in soporific: Try feeding "oxytocin sleep" and "prolactin sleep" into PubMed - there seem to be some indications there of a link between prolactin (stimulates milk production) and oxytocin (stimulates milk release) and sleep. Then again, oxytocin gets up to all sorts of stuff and is regulated by all sorts of stuff, so whether this is an adaptation or a coincidence is not clear.

I was amused by an interesting paper title I found on one of those searches: "Oxytocin: an extremely potent inducer of penile erection and yawning in male rats."

[emperor]

...physically tie him to the bed...

Lamest excuse evah :-p

[nassus.livejournal.com]

Yay getting up at 5:30 and playing WoW!

Not really by choice - just I cant seem to sleep in until 7am just now.

[aendr.livejournal.com]

[x] afternoon person
(Morning is too early, evening too late, night way too late)

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

Me too. Mind you this is partly because I get woken at 7 by a three-year-old who, unlike me, is a morning person... I'm sure there was a time when I'd still be feeling awake at 10pm.

[aendr.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I hope I survive kids...

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

If I can, anyone can... The best thing we did was to use a bedside "cosleeper" (cot which can have one side removed and be adjusted to the same height as your bed and fastened together to make one big bed) for the first year or so. He had his own space so I wasn't getting kicked awake but I still didn't have to fully wake up to breastfeed in the night. Don't think I'd have survived without that!

[simont]

... somewhat to my surprise, because I used to be an evening person until a few years ago.

Mind you, I suppose, I was a morning person when I was about fifteen, so perhaps I just fluctuate from one to the other with a period of 15 years.

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

There's some graph I saw somewhere (not even sure whether it was on the web or not) which showed trends in when people woke up. Basically, for the part of your life when you have a nice diurnal sleep cycle, you start off as more a morning person, reach the peak of evening person sometime as a teenager or a twentysomething, and then get more of a morning person again as you get older.

[imc.livejournal.com]

Hoorah, I'm not old!

[aldabra]

I used to be a night person. I'm still in system shock from Kathy now and don't have much feel for what I'm going to be if I come out of it.

[sparrowsion]

[x] afternoon person

[sbp.livejournal.com]

I'd happily stay in bed until say 2pm and then stay up til 4am left to my own devices. Often when I have a week's holiday I get into this kind of groove.

Luckily I normally don't have to be into work until 10:30am and I generally get to bed about 1am, or sometimes 2am.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Wow. So if morning people are such a minority, why are normal working hours considered to start at 9 (or even 8:30) rather than something sociable like 10 or 11...?

I suggest a revolution.

[scat0324.livejournal.com]

'Cos you don't want to waste the best part of the day on work.