The Tao of Snooze
There are many different types of snoozers. Take me and my freshman roommate, Will. I could literally snooze for hours, and he was one of those people who could not snooze at all. One night, we both set our alarms for 8:30am, and on cue the next morning, he popped out of bed, got cleaned up, and headed to class. Around 12:30pm, after a morning of classes followed by lunch, he came back into the room just in time to see me snooze my alarm for the...26th time? Whatever amounts to four hours. He muttered, "You've got to be f***ing kidding me," and in a fit of incredulity, jumped on my bed and started shaking me awake, yelling, "How can you possibly be snoozing still?! It's 12:30!" I cracked my eyes open, tapped him on his head, and went back to sleep.
Now that I am on a fairly set schedule, I am a much more typical snoozer. Set the alarm for 8:03am, and three 9-minute snoozes later, wake up at 8:30am. I'm guessing most of you are like this as well. Two to three snoozes max, then on with the day.
Then there's Andrew.
I'm usually at work by the time Andrew wakes up, so I had never seen his morning routine, but he planned to wake up early this morning because he was blocking Hubert's car in the driveway, and Hubert gets into work around the same time as me. I told him not to worry about it, sleep in, Hubert and I would carpool, but he said he needed to get up early anyway.
As I walked out of my room at 8:40 this morning, I could hear Andrew's alarm clock going off at the other end of the hall. I was impressed. He was actually getting up. I figured he'd just take me up on my offer and sleep in. That's what I would do. I went downstairs to collect some things, then came back up a few minutes later, and it was stillgoing off. So I walked over to Hubert's room, right next door to Andrew's. "How long has that thing been going?" "About 40 minutes now." "FORTY minutes?!" "Yeah, he's done much longer."
Now granted, this isn't the most shrill alarm clock (it uses the standard beep-beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-beep-beep, as opposed to the harsher EEEENG, EEEENG, EEEENG, EEENG), but it would never be confused with ambient noise, and seeing as how I could hear it from my room at the other end of the hall with his door closed, the volume was plentiful. According to Hubert, he's broken 90 minutes before. I guess he's like Will, no snoozes. Difference is, Will would actually wake up. So Andrew, when did you end up getting out of bed this morning?
Needless to say, Hubert and I carpooled today.
Now that I am on a fairly set schedule, I am a much more typical snoozer. Set the alarm for 8:03am, and three 9-minute snoozes later, wake up at 8:30am. I'm guessing most of you are like this as well. Two to three snoozes max, then on with the day.
Then there's Andrew.
I'm usually at work by the time Andrew wakes up, so I had never seen his morning routine, but he planned to wake up early this morning because he was blocking Hubert's car in the driveway, and Hubert gets into work around the same time as me. I told him not to worry about it, sleep in, Hubert and I would carpool, but he said he needed to get up early anyway.
As I walked out of my room at 8:40 this morning, I could hear Andrew's alarm clock going off at the other end of the hall. I was impressed. He was actually getting up. I figured he'd just take me up on my offer and sleep in. That's what I would do. I went downstairs to collect some things, then came back up a few minutes later, and it was stillgoing off. So I walked over to Hubert's room, right next door to Andrew's. "How long has that thing been going?" "About 40 minutes now." "FORTY minutes?!" "Yeah, he's done much longer."
Now granted, this isn't the most shrill alarm clock (it uses the standard beep-beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-beep-beep, as opposed to the harsher EEEENG, EEEENG, EEEENG, EEENG), but it would never be confused with ambient noise, and seeing as how I could hear it from my room at the other end of the hall with his door closed, the volume was plentiful. According to Hubert, he's broken 90 minutes before. I guess he's like Will, no snoozes. Difference is, Will would actually wake up. So Andrew, when did you end up getting out of bed this morning?
Needless to say, Hubert and I carpooled today.
posted by Chang Kim at Friday, July 22, 2005
8 Comments:
andrew never ceases to amaze me. not even enough willpower to turn it off.
I'll be the first to admit I let my alarm clock run. But please, my alarm clock was set to 9:15 this morning. 8:45 was the time set for the radio.
Well it's a mystery then, because the sound was definitely from your room, and the timeframes don't match up. Hubert and I got into work before 9, so we left the house by 8:50, and an alarm was audible to me for at least 10 continuous minutes, minus the two minutes I was downstairs.
I cannot attest to Hubert's claims, only my own, and I stand by them. :)
hehe. maybe you have a stray watch alarm somewhere. it's pretty amusing :)
i cant believe you actually posted about andrew's alarm clock! how embarrassing (for andrew), yet so entertaining (for the rest of us) :)! keep up the great blogging!
Ah Will. Hadn't heard of him in some time. I appreciate your willingness to dredge memories of that guy up.
So guess whose alarm saved the day when a certain person was going to take another person to the airport but didnt wake up? thats karma, kramer. :p
One of my friends had the "EEEENG, EEEENG, EEEENG, EEEENG" type alarm clocks and he had that thing going for an hour and a half. That was truly amazing.
I have a pretty bad habit as well. I put my alarm clock on the other side of the room, but I can still walk over to it, turn it off, and go back to sleep without waking up. It's horrible.
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