Live it out

[colouredvinyl]

I think I could probably be diagnosed with Delayed sleep-phase syndrome.  If I were, then I could be legally classified as a person with a disability.  ... Status symbol!  It comes and goes over the years, but I definitely feel like it's happening right in the general now.  Maybe I should try this chronotherapy technique I've considered a few times

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[teaforone]

I would prefer my work day to start at 10 or 11 maybe even 12 or later. I never really understood why most businesses felt the need to start at 7 or 8 in the am. I find the rare business that won't open until 10 or 11, but still i wonder who made the decision to start so early?

I know when school had those 1 or 2 hour delays from snow i always felt 10x better then going at 7:30.

[thanatol]

I personally like the sun still being in the sky when I get home, and having my work day over with before any recreation. But I do believe that if 7 hours is not enough time for a single employee to get Stuff done, there need to be A: higher wages, and B: more employees. Ultimately, I think these two things are what we're getting screwed out of, and why we often spend so much more of our lives paying for them than living them. As for things always staying open, I'm kinda glad they don't for the most part, because that would unfortunately give an employer incentive to give people ridiculous work hours when they sign on for full time employment. (People I've known who worked full-time at places like that often had 12 and even 14 hour shifts, even though I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be illegal, just to satisfy the needs and requirements of their employers

[colouredvinyl]

Heh, that song actually entered my head as I was writing that entry.

Sometimes I like having my work day over with before any recreation, but not always. Often, being at work when I really just want to work on some independent project or have some other plans, I'm sure I don't put as much into my job's duties as my employers would probably want from me. And I just don't enjoy the whole process. Whereas if I've had some good non-work time before going to the job, I can focus more on the job for what it is, and perhaps even enjoy it, when I've got my "me stuff" out of the way.

And hopefully in this hypothetical 24-hour labor-force world, regulations would also be put into place to prevent employers from forcing their workers into working too long.

But yeah, we definitely need higher wages and more employees. That is I mean, if we *have* to live in a heirarchical society that coerces us into renting out our labor to a bunch of greedy assholes.

[cheeze]

to play devil's advocate: the reason why the vast majority works on the "get up at dawn" schedule is because that is, really and truly, the way our bodies want to work. the reason everyone hates it and is so miserable and tired is because a) we actually *start work* at dawn, and have to force ourselves up *before* dawn, b) our bodies also want to take a nap in the afternoon and we don't let them, and c) because of the way we're set up with slightly longer working hours and longer evening routines and more after-dark recreation, we don't go to bed nearly as early as our bodies want us to. personally, if i weren't so inclined toward nighttime activities (computer socializing, largely) and so incapable of concentrating on a lot of things with the distractions of daytime, i would likely naturally fall into a rhythm of waking up at seven-thirty or eight am, having a short nap around four pm, and going to sleep around eleven at night. (years of insomnia have encouraged me to closely observe my sleep/wake cycles

[colouredvinyl]

Hmm, I appreciate a good game of devil's advocate, but I can't agree that is how *all* our bodies want to work. According to the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, there are apparently millions of people who have Delayed sleep-phase syndrome (the figure is reportedly something like 0.15% of adults), and that's just those who have been diagnosed. And sufferers don't have it because something's wrong with them, it's because that's how their bodies naturally are. They just don't fit modern societal norms. There is a multitude of divergent evolutionary pathways that our ancestors took in regards to all our behavioral patterns, including that of sleep. Some of us work well on what now, in our post-industrial world, is really an archaic sleep schedule; some of us don't. But you're right, the longer work hours (and resultant tendency to satisfy our recreational needs well into the night) do often prompt many of us to push ourselves past our normal threshold for wakefulness, and stay up too long. That we acknowledge it as

[cheeze]

you are correct and i agree with you. well said. :) there's also people like me, who, possibly due to an extremely slow metabolism, don't work well with 24 hour days. my body seems to want me to have something more like 28 or 30 hours in a day.

and yeah, being in a rush all the time sucks ass. unfortunately, due to my extreme slowness, i'm pretty much always in a rush regardless.

[cheeze]

jeff! i would never have guessed your home-page to be red. and i'm orange and aqua?? you must splain!

[cheeze]

though amusingly, our colors for allison and for kara are somewhat similar!

[colouredvinyl]

hah, that's funny

[cheeze]

i never would have guessed red largely because i associate red (at least that primary-red shade) with dominant and aggressive personalities. as for green for you, i dunno. you seem like a very blue and green sort of person. it might have also had a lot to do with that little cartoon guy icon you had for the longest time.

most of the time the colors i choose for people are based on a) their physical appearance (which would make sense for your choices for me, actually, with having reddish hair and bluegreen eyes) or b) the typical colors they tend to wear, which has something to do with their personality. sometimes it's somewhat arbitrary, or based on how i feel about the person.

i matched my own colors on my friend page to my page colors, so the bar doesn't show up.