{"id":1782,"date":"2010-11-16T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2010-11-15T06:37:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:37:24","slug":"4-am-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"4 AM Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting side effect of me trying to take care of myself. At least, it&#8217;s interesting to me, and it&#8217;s my blog, so shut up, I&#8217;m writing about it, nyah.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, in an attempt to take care of myself. I&#8217;ve been going to bed early. Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean particularly early for a lot of people. I&#8217;m going to be around 11 or whatever. However, it&#8217;s a huge bunch of early for me, who normally gets to bed at 1 or 2. This creates an interesting dynamic with my internal clock. It tends to wake me up early, because it knows how much sleep I tend to get. Therefore, I&#8217;m getting to bed earlier, but I&#8217;m waking up earlier, too. Since I normally wake up at 6ish, that&#8217;s getting pretty early. For example, today I woke up at 4 AM.<\/p>\n<p>This is good and bad. For one, I&#8217;m still getting more sleep this way than I was before. It still might not be 8 hours, but when I wake up at 4, I do at least have the option of staying in bed for awhile, unlike when I stay up late, and I have to get up and go teach. Overall I&#8217;m more rested. At the same time, it still feels like I&#8217;m losing time. I mean, I&#8217;ve been grading for hours today already. I got extra time. It was working out. But it doesn&#8217;t feel that way. I&#8217;m so used to staying up late, it feels like I&#8217;m wasting my time sleeping when I don&#8217;t stay up. It&#8217;s not a fact. It&#8217;s a mental issue. But it&#8217;s still something I have to be concerned with.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I could have slept in today, but I found myself worrying about stuff I had to do when I woke up. I could have stayed in bed, but I wouldn&#8217;t have gotten to sleep due to worry. Now, I&#8217;ve knocked out the problem. I got my grading done, and I&#8217;m ready to face the day. That&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n<p>Or something like nice.<\/p>\n<p>I guess my internal clock will just have to deal. Then again, in a few weeks, this semester will be over, and next semester will be much more sleep-friendly. Maybe I just have to deal a little longer. I dunno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting side effect of me trying to take care of myself. At least, it&#8217;s interesting to me, and it&#8217;s my blog, so shut up, I&#8217;m writing about it, nyah. Basically, in an attempt to take care of myself. I&#8217;ve been going to bed early. Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean particularly early for a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}