A Week of Waking Up Early
Dec. 8th, 2025 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerThere's one thing I didn't particularly expect to happen after coming home from Thanksgiving travel 8 days ago: jet lag. I barely even got onto Eastern time while I was out there; there were only 2 days I got up before 9am. But starting last Monday after getting back home I was up at 5:30am. It then became a pattern as I woke up at 5:30am all last week.
Waking up at 5:30am isn't all bad. It actually helped a bit as I had early meetings, 7am, almost every day of the week. I did expect the jet lag to wear off by Wednesday, though it didn't. I had it all the way through Saturday.
The big downside of getting up early, of course, is tiring out early. All week I was feeling pooped by 8pm and was usually in bed by 9. 🥱
Sunday I finally slept in. I slept in 'til just after 7am. 🤣 Though that was at least partly because Saturday I stayed up "late"— past 11pm!
Today I woke up at 5:30am again. Though today I decided to stay in bed and see if I could fall back asleep. I did... and I swatted the snooze button on my 6:45am alarm a few times before getting up.
Maybe I'm back on a normal, local-timezone schedule now? I'll see what happens tonight and tomorrow.
Waking up at 5:30am isn't all bad. It actually helped a bit as I had early meetings, 7am, almost every day of the week. I did expect the jet lag to wear off by Wednesday, though it didn't. I had it all the way through Saturday.
The big downside of getting up early, of course, is tiring out early. All week I was feeling pooped by 8pm and was usually in bed by 9. 🥱
Sunday I finally slept in. I slept in 'til just after 7am. 🤣 Though that was at least partly because Saturday I stayed up "late"— past 11pm!
Today I woke up at 5:30am again. Though today I decided to stay in bed and see if I could fall back asleep. I did... and I swatted the snooze button on my 6:45am alarm a few times before getting up.
Maybe I'm back on a normal, local-timezone schedule now? I'll see what happens tonight and tomorrow.
