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Are you an owl or a lark? A chronotype quiz.

 
 
ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 13 Nov, 2010 07:05 pm
@Roberta,
Roberta wrote:
I usually wake up between 1 and 3 in the afternoon.


I always think it's a miracle that you, the Empress and I ever managed to meet after the initial glitch caused by ^^^

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djjd62
 
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Reply Sat 13 Nov, 2010 07:25 pm
@chai2,
11'ish

i can get by on about 6 hours sleep a night, when i worked nights, i'd sleep from about 9 am to 3 pm
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 08:17 am
Back when I worked 8 to 5 pm and went to landarch school at night usually three evenings a week 7 - 10 pm and a saturday morning, I often did assigned projects until 4 a.m. or so - sometimes right after class as I would arrive home wide awake, or else the next non class evening - I would be grumpy from time to time, starting to fade around midnight but getting a new burst of energy after that passed. Then it would be hard to go to sleep at, say, 4:30 a.m. and zoom out of bed at 7 a.m. to get to work.
A lot of that was fun though, much of the time. So, I can see the pleasure in working on projects in the wee hours.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 08:20 am
@chai2,
I'm a natural night owl, and was able to indulge that when I was in college -- I scheduled all my classes for past 1:00 PM, and just stayed up until I wanted to. I frequently was up until 3 or 4 AM.

I really hated the whole "unsavory" aspect of it, it bothered me a lot. I got the same amount of sleep as anyone else (usually around 8 hours), I was an excellent student, I was working for much of it (1-5 PM), I didn't do drugs, etc., etc.... my schedule was just shifted a little bit. But people were often kind of icked out by it.

When I started working full time I had to do an abrupt schedule shift, and I was able to, I just didn't like it. (Woke up at 6 AM.)

When I became a mom, the schedule shifted again -- whether by nature or nurture we're all night owls. E.G. makes his own hours but they would frequently be LATE, so we'd be having dinner at 9 PM and then going out for a post-prandial stroll in the dark. The interesting thing is that we'd see a lot of Indian families out there, complete with babies. Not sure what was up with that, culturally. (Co-sleeping?) Anyway, among mainstream whitebread Americans that was very weird.

That continued 'til kindergarten, when sozlet had half-day afternoon and we had to rush a bit to get her there by noon.

Then first grade (all day) was a big shift, and it was sucky. But it worked, and we're all currently on a more-or-less normal schedule. (Wake up at 6:30 AM or so.) I expect that once she's in college we'll all revert.
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msolga
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 06:16 pm
@tsarstepan,
I have discovered that I am a "moderate" lark, tsar.
Thank you. Without this quiz I would never have known that! Smile
CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 06:25 pm
@msolga,
Me too, MsOlga! I think the older we get the more we appreciate morning hours.
B.C. (before child) I used to be a night owl and I was not to be spoken to before
9:00 or 10:00 am. Now, I get cranky if I am not in bed before midnight.
msolga
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 06:52 pm
@CalamityJane,
Quote:
Me too, MsOlga! I think the older we get the more we appreciate morning hours.

Yes, I think so, too, Jane.
(it's a lovely time of day, too. Smile )
So long as it's the "moderate" variety of morning hours.
Nothing as radical as 4 am.
I doubt I could do that anymore!


dyslexia
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 06:59 pm
@msolga,
I spent 40 years getting up at 4 a.m. (feeding the farm and then off to work) now I often sleep as late as 7 a.m.
gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 07:00 pm
I have no time to read this thread, but put me with the owls
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 07:01 pm
@gustavratzenhofer,
I would assume that you were more in the realm of the ... umm ... courageous ostrich Sir Gustav.
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chai2
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 07:02 pm
cj as midnight rolls around...

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msolga
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 07:03 pm
@dyslexia,
Now that is impressive! (Couldn't do it myself, I'm certain.)
So, in those days, what was your usual bed time, dys?
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 07:03 pm
@msolga,
You're quite welcome dear Starling Olga.
dyslexia
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 07:07 pm
@msolga,
msolga wrote:

Now that is impressive! (Couldn't do it myself, I'm certain.)
So, in those days, what was your usual bed time, dys?
10 p.m.
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msolga
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 07:10 pm
@tsarstepan,
Very Happy

Quote:
Studies at the University of Bologna have shown that 'larks' may be more conscientious people. Early birds, of course, also get the worm.

I'm not too sure about this finding .. well not in my case, anyway.
But I'm certain it's true for Jane! Smile
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sun 14 Nov, 2010 08:32 pm
I am not sure either, MsOlga. Wink
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Ohmygosh, a gustav sighting!!!! Where the hell have you been and why did you leave me, ha?
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That's exactly me, Chai - you know me so well! Very Happy Truly, when I am too tired I
get downright nasty....
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 15 Nov, 2010 12:06 am

Unless I need to get to the airport,
or have some other commitment, time is fungible for me.
I eat n sleep at idle pleasure; the clock has no authority.





David
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 15 Nov, 2010 12:09 am

When I was a kid in high school, on summer vacation,
I remember (unplanned) going to bed 2 hours later each nite,
until I 'd worked my way around the clock to retiring at 6 PM.
That felt ridiculous; coud not have that.





David
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Mon 15 Nov, 2010 04:53 am
@OmSigDAVID,
I think that makes you a time lord David!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lpiDRDaH-mU/TGeRdBYL-hI/AAAAAAAATfk/tn-9N6dx3Ws/s1600/Doctor_Who_-_Time_Lords_in_The_End_of_Time.jpg
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 15 Nov, 2010 05:00 am
@tsarstepan,
Geee, I didn 't realize that, until I bawt a videotape recorder in 1981.
(A chick rejected me, and I was trying to cheer myself up; that and a new television.)





David
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