Sleep Cycles

Everyone has one.

Before high school started, I dreaded the ever-so-frightening 90 degree position that the minute and hour hand could make on the clock that announced one thing and one thing only: my bedtime. 9 PM was when I had to go to bed for a very long time. No wonder I was able to get up an hour before school and watch whatever show was scheduled around then. I think I cycled through Recess, the Weekenders, Phineas and Ferb, Total Drama Island.... and probably a few other morning cartoons. But I digress.

After high school started, it wasn't long until I got a job (see: Books are to be bread.). My shifts at the library actually ended at 9, so of course I couldn't go to bed at 9. Also, a 14 year old going to bed at 9 is silly. So I went to bed later and later, using the excuse of "Oh, I'm just finishing my homework.". I also got fairly addicted to Minecraft the year I got a job... So you do the math.

After I quit the library job, I'd have more time to do homework and sleep early, right? HA you're funny.

I kept sleeping later and later, continuing to use the excuse of homework to appease my parents, until it came to the point where in grade 11, I had a bedtime of 3AM and I woke up for school at 7AM. I don't know how I survived, but that was the year I started drinking half a cup of coffee in the morning. It would also probably explain why I was so sleepy whenever biology class came around. Cellular division might've been interesting, but when it came down to the wire, it felt like I was trapped in an empty, soporific cell. (in case you don't know what soporific means... it means inducing sleep. But that's besides the point, because I made a silly and stupid pun that you should all have missed because it was that bad)

Grade 12, I changed a couple of things. I tried my best to go to bed around 1AM at the latest (still went against that multiple times, but I tried) and woke up at 6AM to go to school an hour early and exercise. Big change, but definitely for the better. I felt more energized for the day, and my sleepiness peaked daily around 3-5PM, just in time for me to slide in a quick nap once I got home. Perfect.

Now that it's summertime, I'm sleeping mostly 10 hours or so a night. Hopefully all that sleep does something for my height (or my acne) so cheers to that. And inversely, hopefully my sleep schedule doesn't go too out of whack when university rolls around the corner. You know, with all the parties that I'll be (not) invited to, and the piles of homework I'll be diligently (not) doing throughout the weekend evenings. What's your sleep schedule like?

This was your daily F.U.C.K. for Thursday, August 1st, 2013. Having a schedule in life is a pleasant thing; you know what to expect and you can tailor how much time you spend doing things you do and don't enjoy depending on your needs. Sleep should be one of those needs; don't forget to schedule it in to your daily life filled with friends, family, and everything else.

Rain

The drops cascade downwards from the sky,
Flowing off the blackened clouds up so high,
Hurtling towards the earth below,
Melting, becoming water from snow.

I look up squinting towards the gloom,
The darkly dyed cotton that came in so soon,
Thanking the heavens for the gift of rain,
The heat finally conquered and the thirst slain.

The atmospheric curtains start to open,
The bright blue hues return, when did it ever happen?
Red to indigo painted all across the blue,
That it rained, it being the only clue.

This was your daily F.U.C.K. for the 30th of July,
I ran out of ideas so I looked up to the sky,
I saw the gift of hydration so I sat down to write,
Just remember at the end of darkness there is always light.