Being a college student, it is very important that I am awake at certain times of the day. This semester I was #blessed with a chemistry class at 8 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday which means that I get the “pleasure” of being up at 6 a.m. in order to get ready and catch a bus.
I manage to make this happen with a combination of 3 alarms plus an automatic coffee maker in my room. Most of the time, I’ll roll back over and claim 5 more minutes of beautiful slumber, but I do get up in time to leave even if I have to skip the shower for that day.
Be honest with me: could my hair go another day without a shower?
Now, I try my best to get up at the same time (or close to it) every day because it’s good for your health and makes it easier to get up early when it matters…and I fail epically. Every. Single. Time.
In this type of situation, there are two versions of me: Night Me and Morning Me. It’s important to note that even though they both mean well, each version of me thinks that the other one is a complete idiot.
Now, I sleep in most often when I have nowhere to be. For example, on Saturdays during spring semester, there are no football games and therefore, no marching band rehearsals I need to be at. So, I sleep in. BUT, as I said before, I still want to try to get up at the same time as the rest of the week.
Night Me is very optimistic. She wants me to sleep in because I deserve it on the weekend, but not too much because I’ll mess up my sleep schedule. She sets three alarms for 8:45, 9:00, and 9:15 in the morning and sets up the coffee maker to go off at 9:30. This allows me to sleep in while not wasting my whole day. The biggest downfall at this point is that Nighttime Me likes, you guessed it, nighttime. She stays up significantly past when she should, but still expects Morning Me to be up anyway.
Morning Me is not having it. All of the alarms go off and Morning Me turns off every single one of them. The coffee maker goes off and Morning Me rolls over claiming “5 more minutes, mom” because I have nowhere to be and no one to see. Plus, these blankets are just so darn comfy and warm and my pillow is so fluffy and…wait, where was I?
Sometimes, Night Me will make a list of things to do so that Morning Me has a reason to get up. Just this past weekend during Snowmageddon 2016, I wanted to clean my room in its entirety, clean the bathroom in my apartment, finish my homework, and I would reward myself by finally starting that video game I got for Christmas. So, Night Me made a plan…
…and Morning Me completely ignored it. Again.
Long story short, the only productive thing I did this weekend was get my homework done and play Assassin’s Creed until my controller died.
Oh, well. Maybe next weekend.
