Owl or Lark?

[Jane]

The other morning I got up a little earlier than usual, perhaps 4.45am?  And Kaysea (-2 hours from my time zone) was still online!  At nearly 3am!  How could she do that?  Didn't her eyes get heavy at 8.30pm and close at 9?

So, which are you?

* A lark - always finding it easy to get up early, always brighter in the morning?

* Or an owl - a night bird whose brain comes alive as the sun goes down?

[Paula]

Lark, up  at 5.20 and nighty-night att 21.00 ZZZZ

[Vix]

I'm a lark -- up by 5 a.m. every day. However, I usually don't make it to bed until at least 11:00.

Of course, this morning if I didn't have to work, I'd probably head back to bed. My head aches a bit (couldn't have been all that rum yesterday?).

[Patrick]

I'm both.  I can stay up till 2am and still get up at 5.  I'm just like that.

[Eimi]

Yeah, for me it kind of depends.  I'm usually a night owl, but if there is a good reason to wake up early I can pretty easily.  Waking up for work, unfortunately, is not considered a good enough reason ;)

[Bree]

I'm a night owl for sure. I think the perfect sleeping hours are from like... 4am to 10am or so. My problem is that while I can stay up really really late, I generally can't sleep that much later. :p I try to go to sleep at an hour so that when I get up at 8, I've at least gotten SOME sleep.

[Avery]

I used to be a night owl, but now all my classes are obscenely early and I can't do that anymore. When I was in HS I used to stay up gaming until 1AM and then get up at 6AM. That was PERFECT for me. Now I'm going to bed around midnight and waking up around 8. It doesn't help that I don't have an alarm clock.

[Mikel]

I'm both.  I can stay up till 2am and still get up at 5.  I'm just like that.

Just you wait, me boyo.  When I was your age three hour nights were no big deal, nor was the missed night now and then.

Three decades down the road, I be lovin' my sack time

[Dana]

For me it depends...  I can get up at 6am for work, but I don't like doing it anymore because I've been spoiled by having all my classes starting later in the day  :D  A regular night for me would be going to bed around 1am and waking up at 7:15.

I love staying up late...

[Ainsley]

Just you wait, me boyo.  When I was your age three hour nights were no big deal, nor was the missed night now and then.

Three decades down the road, I be lovin' my sack time

I was just lamenting this to my husband!  Why can't I pull an all nighter just to tie up a few loose ends like I used to?  I blame the kids...

By nature I'm an owl, and getting up prior to about 7:00 am just feels wrong ~ but life has a way of teaching you things and this is one I've had to learn.  I really admire (and envy) the larks however!

[Bree]

No kidding! I'm looking back fondly on my first year of college (which was a depressing decade ago! *g*) and wishing I could pull all-nighters now like I used to then!

I suppose I'll just have to work during the day here if I want to graduate. :D

[emma]

I'm a lark - with the sun (which averages to 6am over the year give or take) , and sleepy once it's dark (any time after 9:30pm)

[Bree]

I always know it's time for me to go to bed when Emma's getting up for the morning! ;)

[Roxanne]

I used to be a night owl, but my body has decided that it does not like that anymore. We used to stay up most of the night gaming and then would go to work the next morning stepping over the people that had crashed in our living room.

Now I try to make it to bed before 10:30p on weeknights and get up between 6am and 7:30am most days.

[Eimi]

What I have found annoying is that when I was a university student, I could be up until 4 or 5am and then sleep in until 2:00 in the afternoon.  Now, no matter what time I go to bed, I get up around 8:00.  If I can sleep in to 10:00 I feel I have really slept in!