sleep button solution

[juldea]

This might be a really stupid thing to do, but I'm trying it...

The snooze button lies across the top of my alarmclock. About 3 inches long and one inch wide. I covered it with double-sided poster mounts and stuck thumbtacks all over it. Now I expect to wean myself off of the snooze button habit.

Like I said, perhaps this is a painfully stupid way to go about this (no doubt it will be painful at least once), but it sounded good at the time.

I'm hoping to get sleepy soon.

Comments

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

wouldn't it have been easier and more effective to use jason's suggestion of having the alarm clock where you can't *reach* the snooze button? what i'm picturing from what you describe sounds like some kind of torture device.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Um, you lived with me, you should remember that wherever the alarm clock is I get up, hit the snooze button, and then crawl back into bed - I don't have to wake up for any of that. I sleep too deeply. I need something to jar me awake. :P

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

I never knew you to have it anywhere other than right next to your head. It just never woke you up. No problems with the snooze button that I know of, just not hearing the damn thing until I went in there because it woke ME up.

[caltren.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, that'll jar you awake eventually. Heh. ANd then in your sleep you'll start using like a book or phone or anything handy. *giggle*

[ratbastrd.livejournal.com]

I suppose if you're hitting the snooze button for 4 hours, a coupel of pointy bits might not be the worst idea. That, or just start setting the alarm well earlier then you have been.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

On another note, do you still have that gradually-louder alarm clock? How could anyone (other than you, apparently) in the same building as that thing hear it for 4 hours and not go completely psycho? I imagine your roommate must be hard of hearing, or VERY tolerant, or not easily irritated...

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Well I know Jim was around for the first some-amount-of-time that the alarm went off (8:30-), but he was gone when I finally got up at 12:30. I don't know how long he stayed. Probably not long, he took a practice GRE that morning.

I think that he would poke his head in and say something to me if he were home to hear it go off for four hours. Our walls are fairly thick, but not impenetrable.

memories

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah... I remember way back when we were roommates. And it used to drive me crazy that you would hit the snooze button for hours and hours. Once you hit it for about 5 or 6 hours. It really drove me crazy because I am one to never hit the snooze. The alarm goes off when I have to be up, so that's when I get up. I'm currently living with a guy who was dependant on the snooze. Now he's late to work alot because he won't get up when it goes off the first time, and I never hit the snooze. Oh well. Good luck on breaking the snooze habit.
Gwen

Re: memories

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, generally I've annoyed all my roommates that way. Heh. :P Hope your guy gets his waking-up figured out as well!

[duke-nemmerle.livejournal.com]

Only problem is instead you'll probably just wind up shutting the alarm off instead of hitting snooze

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. That's not how my morning-fogged brain thinks.

[altair.livejournal.com]

Heh, unfortunately you may eventually adapt.

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

That is one of the funniest things I've ever heard of :)

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

Alarm clocks suck: they're conditioning you to not wake up in the morning. Think about it: if you acquire the skill of sleeping through your alarm clock and pissing off your housemates (I'm talking about the hypothetical "you" here; I live with a couple of hypothetical "you"s), you are rewarded with not having to wake up in a PANIC OH SHIT THERE'S A TRUCK BACKING UP RIGHT NEXT TO MY FUCKING HEAD. And oh boy does it work. The alarm clock even puts me to sleep, across the living room and through two closed doors.

So instead I wake up to a full-spectrum lightbulb on a timer and a computer playing CDs via cron job. It works much better: I have to wake up enough to ssh into the computer to shut off the music, and at that point I'm not likely to go back to sleep.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Well sadly I neither have a lightbulb on a timer nor the necessary nerd skills to set up that other thing. :P