how i wake myself up.

I'm an ogre in the morning.
Waking me up is a long and hard process.
The night before, I have seriously sit down and think about how I can get myself to wake up at the appropriate time the next morning.

I used to get my dad to deal with me.
But I started to feel bad for him, since he had to start his day wrestling me out of bed.
So, I decide to take on responsibility of doing it myself.

I use my iPod Touch as my alarm clock and I set up a total of four alarms to go off.
Try to follow along. It's confusing.

The first alarm goes off at 5:00am. This lets me know that I need to get up soon.
The second goes off at 5:15am.
Since the snooze on my ipod lasts for ten minutes, it means that the alarm for the second alarm I set goes off at exactly 5:25am.
So, I set my third alarm for 5:24am.
Finally, I set my last alarm for 5:26am.
Leaving me four minutes to get out of bed and into my jogging clothes.

So, a typical morning looks like this:
The first alarm goes off at 5:00am. I turn it off.
The second alarm goes off at 5:15am. I hit the snooze button, and go back to sleep.
The third alarm goes off at 5:24am.
And the snooze from the second alarm goes off 60 seconds later, at 5:25am.
Finally, the fourth alarm goes off at 5:26am, finally waking me up.

I know that all of this probably just bounced right off, but it wakes me up.
And that's what matters.

saturday morning.

It's one of those days.
One where you wake up and don't feel like doing anything.

I need to clean my room cause it's a dump.
I need to finish my homework.
I need to write three essays.
I need to vacuum the carpets.
I need to practice the bassoon and violin.
I need to call my friends to confirm plans for tomorrow.

And I'm sore as hell because of yesterday's swim practice.
So I guess I'm going to open my laptop and listen to some screamo. And you know hard it is to concentrate when there's some death metal guy screaming in your face?
It's hard.

I need some coffee. Badly.
With lots of cream and sugar.
Must. Drink. Caffeine.