Comments on: DeAnne Smith and the Sweet, Sweet Sleep

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:38:57 +0000

I, too, am self employed and only work between 3pm and 7pm or whenever I feel like it if I ever feel like it. I routinely wake up at 2:30, throw on a t-shirt that can’t have been worn more than twice since last time I washed it (right? not possible…right?) and book it to work to meet my first client. Last Thursday I decided I would act like an adult and go to bed by 11pm because that’s a super early night for me. I woke up with the flu. Lesson learned.

By: Bernadette Davies

Bernadette Davies — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:45:38 +0000

Early to bed, and early to rise,
makes a woman healthy, wealthy and wise.

By: Kacey

Kacey — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:38:11 +0000

Wait… look at the worm mating picture. ARE THEY 69-ING?

Anyway, I’m a night owl, but not by choice. I have terrible insomnia, but it doesn’t bother me that much. Mainly because I’ll just stay up for hours if I can’t sleep reading Autostraddle and pinning useless things on pinterest.
And it’s 1:35 AM here and I’m not a bit tired, despite the fact I’ve already taken my “sleeping” medication. It doesn’t do it’s job very well.
But I love sleep when I do attain it. I often nap, in fact, besides crocheting napping is my favorite hobby.
I can’t sleep at night, but I’m a pro at sleeping the day, go figure.
But at A-Camp my insomnia worked to my advantage because everyone seemed to want to stay up until 3am every night anyway. The trouble was waking up for cool things like lipbalm making and waffles.

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:44:46 +0000

I actually like mornings, but since dropping all my classes (hey-o!) here in the dark and rainy PNW, I’ve been sleeping in till noon every day. I have an inability to stay up late, though, so I end up spending 14 hours in bed daily. I can’t tell if I’m depressed or just awesome.

By: Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:23:25 +0000

It is entirely possible to do a PhD and be a night owl.*

*If you can survive on 4 hours sleep a night. FML

By: Lily Thrall

Lily Thrall — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:06:34 +0000

I’m still up and it is 3:05am EST… and I’m not planning to climb in to my (particularly comfortable soft cushy) bed just yet.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:28:13 +0000

This is me, night owl and a half (minus the alcoholism and obsession over worms). I had many chuckles while reading this article and truthfully, I usually just skim.

I have my own business and usually don’t need to be at my shop until two or three in the afternoon. On the occasional day off I often enjoy staying up till 7 in the morning and watching the sunrise then crawling into bed with fresh, clean sheets (500 thread count Egyptian cotton, thanks for asking).

It is totally true that night owls are regarded as lazy, even though I am the hardest worker with tons of ambition. All my friends with kids, schedules, routines (blah, blah) say that it is unhealthy and think I am a vampire.

I love that there are other night owls out there!! The day-walkers are just jealous of our mad sleeping skills.

By: squinn

squinn — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:08:13 +0000

Just thinking about my t-shirt sheets makes me want to happy cry. And I tell everyone about the many virtues of jersey sheets. All the time. I’m like some sort of bed linen evangelical.

By: RoseGraced

RoseGraced — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:50:38 +0000

I have all the fun of being a morning person and a night owl. Who really needs more than 5 hour of sleep in a night? I wake up at either 7 or 8 every single morning. even if I only went to sleep at 5.
I lie, I do need more sleep. Which is why every now and then I will sleep for 15 hours straight. Occasionally I’ll even do that every night for a week. I’ll go have a nap at 3 PM and just sleep through til morning. Best thing ever.

By: mmmmclaire

mmmmclaire — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:48:18 +0000

Definitely! Even though my TA union is on strike right now, I still have sweet, sweet sleep-in times because of grad school.

By: Niki

Niki — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:00:20 +0000

Today (yesterday to normal people) I woke up a 7:00 PM, it was already dark. I have a 26 hour day, 10 hours asleep 16 hours awake, so I get up about 2 hours later every day. My dream is to one day be able to afford to move two time zones west every day or figure out a way to slow down the earths rotation, so that I can be in sync with everybody else

By: bookbound

bookbound — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:30:57 +0000

a shot glass would probably be more appropriate.