Getting up early

I went to bed by about 11:30 last night, and by some miracle when my alarm rang at 7am this morning, I only hit the snooze button once. I was cooking breakfast by 7:30.

I don’t think I’ve willingly gotten out of bed before 8:30 in a very long time. Today’s experiment is part of my evil master plan to Get My Head Back In The Game(tm).

Especially post-conference (the conference part of which was awesome), I’ve had too many thoughts, projects, and ideas sloshing around in my head in a disorderly fashion. It’s like trying to run a fire drill at 3am and discovering everyone is in the shower: it makes you wonder “when has the fire alarm ever meant it was a real fire?”

As far as plans go it worked out reasonably well. I had time to make myself bacon and egg (just one). Sat down, ate it, then got some writing done for my Science Fiction short story. For some reason, I thought there was a chance I’d get a blog post in before I had to start working, but that idea was quickly quashed.

Regardless, the point is that I like having some time between when I wake up and when I have to start working. I doubt I’ll continue to get up at 7, but I think I’m going to try to start getting up early enough to do at least one thing on my own time.