numerology is our friendly foe...
Recently I have begun the practice of waking up earlier than usual. Its unintended, but for some reason the in the last I have awoken at exactly 6.47am. Precisely 13 minutes prior to my initial 7am alarm. Not really sure the significance. Thirteen (13) is not a number that has any particular meaning to me in the way superstitions do for others. I just dont get all worked up about it. So the fact that I'm waking 13 minutes earlier than I want to hear my first of a series of 3 alarms, the first 2 of which are snoozed for roughly 9 minutes apeice, is a fact I am still baffled by.
This poses a problem for a few reasons, 1 being that I do not like waking up early. Another reason being I do not want to get out of bed until 7.20am which is still another 33 minutes away. This poses to be a difficult 33 minutes because once I wake, my body resumes its normal base instincts one of which being evacuation of fluids. And so begins the dance. Oft I will ride it out until its time to actually get out of bed, and I dont want to interrupt any of my roommates' morning routines, but sometimes I just suck it up and get out from underneathe my warm burrito of blankets. I then proceed to shower. This actually helps wake me up.
I then get dressed and promptly re-roll myself into my blankets on my bed and go back to bed for another 20 to 25 minutes until 8.10am. I have done this part since highschool, roughly 10 years ago since I began my freshman year in 1996 and 6 years since I started college. I now feel old.
I like to use this time to re-evaluate whether I really want to go to work. I tempt myself the notion that I could just go back to bed all day. In theory, if the job (or previously class when I was still in college) is bad then I will just decide not go and be done with it and move on to something else. But as it stands, I have never done this and it helps me know that what I am doing, I actually want to get out of bed for.
I dawdle for another 20minutes and leave for the metro at 8.30am. The walk is only 5 minutes, the wait is usually 2 to 3 minutes and the ride itself is about 7. This gets me to work at about 8.50.
So what is the point of all these numbers? I have no idea...but the process of micromanaging my early morning somehow just seems strange. The thing that is throwing off this strange little routine is waking up 13 minutes earlier than expected for unknown reasons. The world is a mystery even in the rigidity of time crunching.
This poses a problem for a few reasons, 1 being that I do not like waking up early. Another reason being I do not want to get out of bed until 7.20am which is still another 33 minutes away. This poses to be a difficult 33 minutes because once I wake, my body resumes its normal base instincts one of which being evacuation of fluids. And so begins the dance. Oft I will ride it out until its time to actually get out of bed, and I dont want to interrupt any of my roommates' morning routines, but sometimes I just suck it up and get out from underneathe my warm burrito of blankets. I then proceed to shower. This actually helps wake me up.
I then get dressed and promptly re-roll myself into my blankets on my bed and go back to bed for another 20 to 25 minutes until 8.10am. I have done this part since highschool, roughly 10 years ago since I began my freshman year in 1996 and 6 years since I started college. I now feel old.
I like to use this time to re-evaluate whether I really want to go to work. I tempt myself the notion that I could just go back to bed all day. In theory, if the job (or previously class when I was still in college) is bad then I will just decide not go and be done with it and move on to something else. But as it stands, I have never done this and it helps me know that what I am doing, I actually want to get out of bed for.
I dawdle for another 20minutes and leave for the metro at 8.30am. The walk is only 5 minutes, the wait is usually 2 to 3 minutes and the ride itself is about 7. This gets me to work at about 8.50.
So what is the point of all these numbers? I have no idea...but the process of micromanaging my early morning somehow just seems strange. The thing that is throwing off this strange little routine is waking up 13 minutes earlier than expected for unknown reasons. The world is a mystery even in the rigidity of time crunching.
posted by MikeKatzif at 8:34 AM
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