Alarms.

I set an alarm so I could wake up from a post-work nap to write this post. Instead of setting it for 11:00 PM, I set the alarm for 11:00 AM. You know, things happen. I’ll pretend like I don’t do that all the fucking time. Luckily, it hasn’t cost me anything yet because my body keeps saving me. I’ve come very close to missing important things because I mess up my alarm. Obviously, it isn’t life or death if I kept sleeping tonight and missed my post. It would piss me off that I’m stupid, but no one died. All good! For all of high school, I had my mom as an alarm. She would come at 7:15 AM every day and yell at me to wake up. If I wasn’t in the shower in the next five minutes, she would come yelling again. I had never woken up on my own before college. There are a lot of firsts at college, but this one is so first world. I can’t believe I’m sitting here talking about it. It was quite easy to get over, but it was something. Unfortunately, if you want to keep sleeping or completely miss your alarm, your phone lets you be the boss. My mom never let me be the boss. My phone lets me get away with way too much shit. I started setting alarms for an hour and two hours before I had to wake up in the morning so I could trick my body into thinking that it was actually getting more sleep. Surprisingly, that works really well. I tell myself that I’m waking up at 5:45 AM, but I “sleep in” till 7:45 AM. It works like a charm, except when I am taking a midday nap and only have an hour to sleep. It isn't modular, it only works in big chunks of time. Usually, I have no problem with setting alarms for naps, I just have a hard time getting up. Naps make me very groggy and I forget where I am. My friends told me I’m like a sloth for the first thirty minutes after waking up. I’m slow and unreactive. It doesn’t feel real that I am so close (yet so far) to finishing my second year of school. I cannot wait to go home for a little bit. My summer plans are all but locked in, so I will be sharing those soon! I’m going to set a proper alarm and sleep now. Ciao! Have a great weekend! Happy Friday!