Sleep Is Awesome

A friend of mine says that sleep is for the weak. That's all fine and dandy that she is able to function on 2-4 hours of sleep per night, but that just doesn't cut it for me. I have always been on the early bird end of the sleep spectrum, preferring to go to bed early and get up early. Of course, it fluctuates. When I have a roommate, for example, I tend to go to sleep later and consequently wake up later, but since having my own room again I am again going to bed early and getting up early. Last night I went to bed around 10:00 pm and woke up at 5:00 am. When the alarm went off on my phone I saw that there was a text message from said friend about a homework question. Since she sent it around midnight and it was now 5:00 am, I didn't think that she would be up but responded anyway. Needless to say we were both pretty surprised that the other one was up. She couldn't believe that I was getting up at 5:00 am and I couldn't believe that she still hadn't gone to bed at 5:00 am!

I know, it's kind of crazy, but I just like being up early better and I don't really like staying up that late. I had time this morning to go to the store to buy milk, have a leisurely breakfast, and surf the net a bit and I still got to school at 8, plenty of time to do my homework.

Apparently I've always been somewhat of an early bird/old man though. My mom says that even when I was little, as soon as I learned to read 9:00 on the clock, I would wait up and as soon as I saw those numbers I would say, "mom, can I go to bed now?" because that was my bed time and I thought that meant I had to stay up that late. So, basically I've always been weird.