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through the tulips, perhaps
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Well, when I was much younger, I would've picked "7" or "8" as the answer to that question. Not only did I have a bedtime, but I was quite the early riser.
I used to spend alternate weekends at my dad's house. And, after a late night the night before of trying to stay up in bed and watch alllllll the way to the end of the 7:30 pm Flyers game, I'd generally wake up in the morning at about 7. No one else would be awake for another 2 hours, least of all my uber-cool step-brother, the older one, who was a teenager already. After what must've been several incidents, I was told that I was absolutely not to wake anyone before 9.
So I'd have plenty of time to go downstairs, make myself breakfast, and then either wander around aimlessly or play with the cats and a length of string. I can't imagine that they all always slept through 2 little feet and 8 or 12 little paws scampering in circles around the downstairs, but it was a matter of picking one's battles, and I bet they'd rather try to get another hour of shuteye than yell at me for being a kid with energy. But I did get pretty good at doing even that quietly, and of course I was as silent as could be when doing anything else. It's a useful skill. I have the patience necessary to close a bathroom door without the doorknob clicking at all. I learn where squeaky steps are. I walk deliberately so as to avoid disturbing anything that might be unexpectedly in my way.
And it's a skill that's come in handy, but at the other end of the clock. This house I'm in is small and open, and when my mom's here, she has to go to sleep early enough to wake up for the long commute in the morning. So I'm still the one moving around quietly, but now it's because it's after midnight and most employed people are already asleep. The bathroom on my floor is broken and I have to use hers, so as I tiptoe past my mom's bed, I'm reminded of those absurdly early mornings many years ago.
And yeah, I miss the cats.
Well, when I was much younger, I would've picked "7" or "8" as the answer to that question. Not only did I have a bedtime, but I was quite the early riser.
I used to spend alternate weekends at my dad's house. And, after a late night the night before of trying to stay up in bed and watch alllllll the way to the end of the 7:30 pm Flyers game, I'd generally wake up in the morning at about 7. No one else would be awake for another 2 hours, least of all my uber-cool step-brother, the older one, who was a teenager already. After what must've been several incidents, I was told that I was absolutely not to wake anyone before 9.
So I'd have plenty of time to go downstairs, make myself breakfast, and then either wander around aimlessly or play with the cats and a length of string. I can't imagine that they all always slept through 2 little feet and 8 or 12 little paws scampering in circles around the downstairs, but it was a matter of picking one's battles, and I bet they'd rather try to get another hour of shuteye than yell at me for being a kid with energy. But I did get pretty good at doing even that quietly, and of course I was as silent as could be when doing anything else. It's a useful skill. I have the patience necessary to close a bathroom door without the doorknob clicking at all. I learn where squeaky steps are. I walk deliberately so as to avoid disturbing anything that might be unexpectedly in my way.
And it's a skill that's come in handy, but at the other end of the clock. This house I'm in is small and open, and when my mom's here, she has to go to sleep early enough to wake up for the long commute in the morning. So I'm still the one moving around quietly, but now it's because it's after midnight and most employed people are already asleep. The bathroom on my floor is broken and I have to use hers, so as I tiptoe past my mom's bed, I'm reminded of those absurdly early mornings many years ago.
And yeah, I miss the cats.
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1. people who are in bed by 10 pm, period.
2. people who are barely awake/out the door by 9 am to make it to work by 10 am.
3. people who are just going to sleep at 9 or 10 am. (okay, granted, they're the nightshift workers, but.)
though there's not a lot of overlap between 1 and 2, there is some.
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Taking into account world populations and really big oceans, at what moment in the day are the most people in the world awake for. (And, what time of the year?)
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Ignoring daylight saving time for now, I pick a day in early June, when it's 8am in New York. That makes it 10am in coastal Brazil; 6:30pm in India; 9pm in Singapore, Indonesia, and China; and 10pm in Tokyo.
And the only countries for which it would be early morning or late evening, and which would be observing DST in June, are the North American ones and Russia. So we gain more Chicago and Houston awake people because of that, without losing any Japanese.
Unfortunately, the time of year might put it after sunset in some really southern parts of Africa, and maybe a lot of Indonesia, but that's better than making it winter and losing all of our agrarian Asians who might go to sleep soon after sunset.
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--Jeff
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