Sat Dec 20, 12:43:16 AM | Lindsay LeClair

good morning to all. this is going to be in all lowercase as i am feeling far too lazy to bother with capitalizing things. FAR too lazy -- with the exception for capitalization for emphasis.

so it turns out: no matter how long in life i wake up before 10, i will NEVER get used to it. oh sure, sometimes i wake up at 9 or even 8:30 on a weekend as a result of waking up at 7...ish everyday (the later side of "ish," to be fair) but NEVER would i just so happen to wake up at 7. EVER. that's far too early. it doesn't matter how early i go to bed. yet again, let's allow that i can't actually fall asleep earlier than midnight... which renders the whole situation difficult. even when i was waking up "early" -- translate 8:30 -- every morning, i never would have imagined of getting up at 7. let's face it: i'm just a night person. no matter how tired i am, i get a second wind around 9pm, and that's it for the rest of the night until midnight. i TRY to wind down around 11, but it doesn't always work. or even usually.

so i spill into work every morning at what i hope to god is 9am, noticeably earlier than i would like to be awake, and even though i have been out of bed for 2 hours, i am still not what my co-workers would expect of me. poor steve got the brunt of it this morning when i shook my head in confusion as he tried talking at me before i had encountered caffiene. that's not nearly as bad as what dan gets every morning, but at least he gets the somewhat cute part of it. i mean, seriously. you EXPECT someone to be adorably groggy when they first come to consciousness. but a full two hours after that point? not so much. that's called simply, "NOT a morning person." because mornings in general are unpleasant experiences when involving other members of humanity in any way.

this is the atmosphere that colored my day. it is a friday, which means that i was tremendously restless and ultimately ready to not be in the office anymore. what that also meant that i welcomed any kind of distraction, which ranged from listening to the woes of the recently re-located temp accountant we have there, to briefly glancing at the porn mag we have to rifle through to make sure they're still running our ad, to taking a much longer lunchbreak than usual and enjoying the company of davin (prez) and steve while they reminisced about their high school deliquencies, and i cleverly didn't talk much about mine.

tonite has been incredibly nice though. dan and i have the place to ourselves tonite (both roommies are out of town) and we had a nice evening just sitting in front of the beautiful christmas tree and writing christmas cards and working on knitting and such. it was just so nice. we have also been enjoying NOT having television on in the background. don't get me wrong. free cable is cool and all, and i love south park, the daily show, and the simpsons. but those are the only three reasons i'll ever turn on the tv or want it to be on at all. but dan and i realize that we are not the typical american folk, and therefore must be tolerant of the television being on what seems to us like obscene amounts. i'm just glad we get a break for a few days. because i'm damned sick of stupid shows and even more stupid ads blaring from the next room. it makes me not want to go out there. i actually ate breakfast on the kitchen floor last weekend because i didn't want to be in front of 90210, as smashing of a show as that was in its time.

sooooo.... no tv. just me and dan and the christmas tree. yay tree! i love christmas. back to knitting.