Dragging June 5, 2012
Posted by mareserinitatis in personal.Tags: health, lawnmowers, sleep
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I hate, hate, hate the end of the school year. I’m glad school is over, but the last month is essentially madness. All the end of school programs, activities, banquets, etc. I swear that we had one or more activities going on every evening in May.
On top of that, with the warm weather, we’ve hit lawn mowing season. Apparently the only thing my neighbors have to do is take care of lawn work. It seems like there are lawn mowers going constantly in my neighborhood from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m.
And now I’m just exhausted. We had to run an errand before work this morning. While Mike ran in, I stayed in the car. Things took much longer than anticipated, and so he came out half an hour later and found me sound asleep despite all the ruckus going on outside. It’s pretty bad when I can actually sleep someplace other than my own bed.
The good news is that I looked at the calendar for June…and it looks like things are finally starting to settle down. Maybe I’ll even get a little sleep…in between lawn mowers.
The real reason parents want to kick their teenagers out June 3, 2012
Posted by mareserinitatis in older son.Tags: lark, night owl, sleep, work habits, working hours
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Or at least the reason this one does.
I have mentioned before that I am a morning person. The older son is most definitely not.
Things went fairly well when the older boy was working on his CLEP exam: he’d get up at 7 so that he could catch a ride to the library, where he usually studied until about 11 or 12. There were two or three days where he had ‘relapses’ and didn’t get up, but overall, he did very well. It led me to wonder if he was a morning person who was, unfortunately, jacking his schedule around so badly that he didn’t realize it.
Whether or not this is the case, I don’t know. However, since he took the CLEP exam, he’s fallen into some bad habits again, such as not getting out of bed until almost noon. This means he’s also up very, very late. And I’m a light sleeper. This is a very, very bad combination.
Since he’s done with high school and looking at college, it has occurred to me that maybe he should start looking to go to college a year early. Not only would he get done with college a bit earlier, I might be able to start getting some sleep, too.
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