I'm not a big baby for wanting get my 6-8 hours of sleep....

[blas87]

I have "team player" coworkers who work 12 hour shifts every work day of the week, and they bully and tease others who only do 9-10-11 hour shifts for overtime because 12 gets to be way too much after several months. I mean, they get all high and mighty about it. Most of them who do it are day shifters, so if they try their shit with me I usually say "Well, if you worked a different shift, you'd make more money per hour, therefore, overtime would be extra spending money, not make-up money" Ha ha. Bastards. I win.

[Skunkle]

Elementary school. I was always dead tired in the morning. And listless all day. I'd perk up a bit in the afternoon when I really got to spend a few hours outside forgetting that I was tired. Weekends, I was usually fine. Junior high, high school, same thing. Once I graduated, and got to sleep in more often, I started timing my sleep and doing some tests...

As a schoolkid, I always stayed up late doing lots and lots of homework, and got about 8 hours. I got more on week-ends and during the summer. In junior high and high school, homework came in increasingly higher amounts, I got more like seven hours, and I was so tired in the morning that I'd fall asleep. On the toilet. Eating breakfast. On the bus. In class.

Doing some timing tests after I graduated and really thought about it, I finally figured things out...

My body NEEDS ten hours. At LEAST. Any less, and I just crash. I'm otherwise pretty healthy. And yes, I catch crap for "sleeping too much". I should need "only" eight hours. No, I'm sorry, my body does need more. It apparently always has.

[HYHYBT]

Well, then, SOMEBODY has to ask: what were you doing eating breakfast on the toilet on the bus in class?

[telecom_goddess]

Well, then, SOMEBODY has to ask: what were you doing eating breakfast on the toilet on the bus in class?

God damn you people crack me up.....that had me laughing really hard.

[Skunkle]

I definitely LOLed.

It was bad, though... There was a wall next to the toilet. I'd lean on it and conk out. I never missed the bus, or had to be woken up by the driver, but I'd frequently TRY to nod off for 30 seconds in class, over and over, because I was so incredibly sleepy...

I am also NOT a morning person. If I get my ten hours and wake up any time after eleven, I'm fine, If I still get ten hours, but wake up between 5 and 10 AM or so, I'm never very awake.