That is thirty minutes before I need to leave for work! =^^=

(And a good ninety minutes after I normally rise on the weekdays!) =^^;

I try very hard to be a morning person, but I tend to sleep really late (evenings are often when I have time to do creative stuff, and that invariably eats into my sleep hours) and badly, so waking up is always a long and unenjoyable process for me.

This one piece however is also about like, just the overall emotional toll of daily life and routine.

It is my blessing and my curse. I am most creative in the morning, after work I'm too burnt to do anything other than vegetate, or murder zombies! =P

The most horrible feeling is when I get up to the call of nature, and find it is five minutes before my alarm is supposed to go off... That is an unhappy place! =^^;

There was a radio program on super early in the am that also got me in the habit of getting up that early. (Well, the army forced me up at 04:00 so that helped as well...)