My fellow Odyssey contributor (Emma Wooten) collaborated with me for this article, as we share a hatred for waking up early for school. My ideas are in the regular print, her ideas are in the bold print. Here is a list of things we would rather do than wake up at 5:30am for school:

• Not wake up at all for school
• Step on a Lego
• Clean my entire house
• Pour lemon juice on a paper cut
• Be forced to watch every single episode of The Twilight Zone (I hate this show with my entire being)
• Eat a spoonful of salt with every meal
• Trip up the stairs
• Trip down the stairs
• Sleep with my closet doors open (one of my biggest fears because monsters)
• Fix crooked window blinds all day
• Eat a lot of radishes (radishes taste like onions on steroids- no thank you)
• Deal with a really touchy self-checkout register at the store and have an employee have to keep checking on me (not a fan of public attention)
• Hear nails on a chalkboard through headphones all day
• Put fitted sheets on beds all day long (do not fight me on this either I work up quite the sweat)
• Walk around in broken flip-flops all day
• Hit every red light on a long drive
• Accidentally shower with socks on
• Fall flat on my face in front of a large crowd
• Have my water bottle spill all over my backpack with all my school stuff in it
• Kiss a snake
• Stub my toe
• Eat the heel of a loaf of bread
• Get a paper cut in between my fingers (the worst kind- don’t fight me)
• Buy food from a vending machine and have it get stuck inside
• Lose all the contacts on my phone (again)
• Buy another item of food to get the first one loose from the machine and have that one also get stuck
• Miss my mouth while eating something and having it spill on my clothes
• Get a cart at the grocery store with a wonky wheel
• Listen to country music for a whole day
• Look at the clock at 11:12
• Push a door you're supposed to pull or vice versa in public
• Wear my top inside out
• Shatter my phone screen
• Go a whole day without realizing I had food stuck in my teeth
• Shower with sunburn
• Be in a room with ten spiders
• Accidentally bite my tongue
• Give my phone to someone else and find that they've changed all my contacts to their name
• Forget my headphones when I need them
• Drink water from the Dead Sea
• Tangle my necklaces together and having to spend 8 years untangling them
• Eat dirt
• Be electrocuted (just a little though)
• Listen to silverware scrape against a plate
• Relive my middle school years (jk too far)
• Drive over a nail and get a flat tire
• Spill nail polish remover
• Get stuck in an elevator for an hour or more (I am terrified of tight spaces and elevators)
• Hold my hand over a fire
• Trip on my laptop cord, fall, and bring the laptop down with me
• Get my face ripped off by a pet monkey