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'My Corduroyed Life' - Mark A's Journal
This is something I'm considering for my blog...
Was chatting about blogging with phee (http://www.monkeys-and-pirates.com/index.php) last night after Ninja, and he mentioned how he always intended to tell some of the funnier stories from his past on his blog. I agreed that this was a good idea. We then discussed how likely we are to actually do it: relatively unlikely, due to the fact that we're lazy and have nuff things going on in our lives.
However, I do think it's a really cool idea, and may well put some stuff down if I get the opportunity.
Have fun,
M
Current mood: Mmmkay.
Current music: Far Away bt the Leve11ers.
This is not a good combination...
It took me forty minutes to actually get out of bed after my alarm went off this morning. I am simply rubbish at getting out of bed, and always have been. However, during the Winter, I am infinitely worse. As previously mentioned, I have a real problem with the cold. My bed is snuggly and warm (and, more often than not these days, has Tony in it); the 'outside world' is cold and hostile (and has no Tony). As such, I lie in bed wanting the morning to go away, and the responsibility of having to go to work to disappear. I then do it a bit more and the snooze goes off. I hit the snooze and do it some more. Then the snooze alram goes off and I hit the snooze again... &c.
The thing is, I work on flexitime. This means that I can get into work any time between 8 and 9.15, and can leave any time between 4 and 6 (a 'day' consists of 7 1/4 hours work, and if you do more than this, you can claim it back with early leaves or a full day off if you build up enough time). In theory, this is great; in practice, it allows me to dawdle on my way to work. Every week, I promise myself that I'll get up early, and get into work early so that I can build up time for one of those wonderful (but sadly, elusive) days off. It never happens. However, I set the alarm to allow for me to get into work early as long as I get up within ten minutes of the alarm going off.
I sometimes worry that I am a a litoholic. I came up with that term with an old girlfriend (yes, girlfriend - it was a while ago). Basically, a lot of English words with the suffixes 'aholics', 'ophobes' and 'ophiles' come from Latin. When I decided that I was addicted to bed, Hannah and I decided to find out what the Latin for bed was: lit. Those who speak French will know that lit is also French for bed, but that's no real surprise as French comes from Latin (wheras as English comes from old German).
Anyway, I do spend an oscene amount of time in bed, and as I say, I sometimes worry that I'm a litoholic. I heart my bed. When I was at University (doing an English degree), if I wasn't in on that day, I would literally spend the whole day snuggled in bed reading a novel for my course. I could then (almost legitimately) go in the kitchen in the evening and inform my housemates that I'd worked really hard all day! That was so cool. But even these days, I'll lie in bed from 7 'til 12 on an evening and watch DVDs, or I'll lie in bed all Sunday, reading and doing the same. I love my bed, and I love being in bed.
Gah... that was a tangent and a half... A old pen pal of mine used to call that 'going off on your tandem' (wonder what happened to John Willcock - we've lost touch and he was a top bloke). Gah! Just went off on my tandem again...
I think I remember what I was trying to say when I started this blog. It was something along these lines:
I realise that if I got out of bed quicker, I'd gain more flextime and in the long run would get more time off, but I find it SO difficult to get out of bed. While I'm in bed, it seems not much sacrifice. However, when I'm at work and want to leave early, but don't have the flexi, I curse my litaholicness. It's a vicious circle that I'll never get out of I don't think. Perhaps were I to get a job with set hours, I'd change... but I reckon I'd probably just knock the alarm back a half an hour to accomedate it.
Have fun,
M
Current mood: Mmmkay.
Current music: Still Far Away by The Leve11ers.