Sat, 12 Sep 2009

Waking Up . . .

Do you ever just wake up? OK, we all wake up unless we're in a coma. I mean wake up when you don't really have to -- like on a weekend? Just wake up like you've slept all you need to and are wide awake, sometimes at the oddest hours? Why is that? Is it some perverse attempt by your body to get back at you for something? Is there some outside influence -- maybe aliens or ghosts or gremlins -- which just can't stand to see you relaxing?

Sometimes, I can see it happening because you are worried or excited about something and your mind just wakes you up like an excited puppy at supper time. After all, I'm the type of person whose alarm never goes off during the week because I wake up before it and turn it off. But the weekend? I'm ready to snooze for a bit, sleep in, enjoy the two days off and -- wang! -- I'm wide awake at 5:30 AM. It's not the week day habit. Most weekends, I quite happily snooze for a couple more hours before waking. It doesn't seem to correlate with the time that I go to bed the night before. I just don't know.

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