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Better Than You (Alarm Clocks)

Here's yet another rant I suppose stems from my roommates of the past and present. Bear with me, its time for another addition of "Better Than You."

Alarm clocks.

We set them to wake us up at a certain time of day. They beep, they play music, they buzz, ring bells, and any number of other things. Just about everyone uses one, to get up on time and start the day. To get up early enough to get ready for work or school, or to simply make sure they don't sleep the day away. sweatdrop

Then there are people that simply don't care. People that set their alarms for 10:30am, and end up getting up at 4:30pm, then wonder why they can't sleep come midnight. Its because their alarms don't wake them up, or they hit snooze once every nine minutes for the next SIX HOURS. That drives me insane. If you don't have a night job, or a night life, for that matter... if you're a student coming to the end of a semester, when all the papers and projects were due, why in the world would you want to waste your days away in bed? Get up! Do SOMETHING productive, even if its just one thing. stare

It takes me ages to write papers, and I have to devote entire days just to write one, and I get up between 8am and 9:30am everyday of the week, depending on classes. I don't waste my life away sleeping, and I don't stay up until ungodly hours of the night, only to complain to my classmates the next day that I didn't get enough sleep the night before. Go to bed at a DECENT hour, and guess what? You feel rested in the MORNING and you get up to spend the whole day awake! scream

What is the point of sleeping all day long? Not a darn thing. You get no rewards from it other than a messed up sleeping cycle. That's what your alarm clock is for. To wake your butt up and make sure you DON'T waste your life away trying to get "five more minutes" four the next six hours. Extra extra sleep only makes you more tired, its a proven fact. But people that borderline hibernate make me SICK. You know what, snooze-alarmers? I get my butt up when the alarm goes off, every day, and you know what else?

I'm better than you! scream