...and oh, yeah...
Dec. 4th, 2015 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI managed to hat-trick the getting-up-at-the-crack maneuver. The funny thing about it this morning is that I actually woke up on my own about 7 minutes before the alarm was set to go off (so I closed my eyes and treated the alarm as a snooze alarm).
I got to thinking about getting up early in the morning, and it brought back memories of boot camp that, in retrospect, I realize were lessons, of a sort.
You see, in recruit training "the book" prescribed, generally speaking, a bedtime of 9 pm and reveille at 5 am. Somewhere along the way, however, it sort of got into our collective heads that if we want to get a head start on the day, we'll get up earlier than that (which was easy enough to arrange in boot camp, simply by instructing the person walking the last fire watch of the night to start waking people up—come to think of it—around 4:30 am).
There will be time enough to sleep later. Today, in addition to the 1700-word translation I just sent off, I have an appointment at the house with an insurance sales person and a seemingly infinite supply of source words to translate afterward.
Somewhere in among all that joy, I must find some time to spend with Natalie and Kyle. (Don't get me wrong, it's not as if I wouldn't like to spend every waking moment doing something with them; it's just that those words will not translate themselves...).
Cheers...
Cheers...
I got to thinking about getting up early in the morning, and it brought back memories of boot camp that, in retrospect, I realize were lessons, of a sort.
You see, in recruit training "the book" prescribed, generally speaking, a bedtime of 9 pm and reveille at 5 am. Somewhere along the way, however, it sort of got into our collective heads that if we want to get a head start on the day, we'll get up earlier than that (which was easy enough to arrange in boot camp, simply by instructing the person walking the last fire watch of the night to start waking people up—come to think of it—around 4:30 am).
There will be time enough to sleep later. Today, in addition to the 1700-word translation I just sent off, I have an appointment at the house with an insurance sales person and a seemingly infinite supply of source words to translate afterward.
Somewhere in among all that joy, I must find some time to spend with Natalie and Kyle. (Don't get me wrong, it's not as if I wouldn't like to spend every waking moment doing something with them; it's just that those words will not translate themselves...).
Cheers...
Cheers...
