I can sleep through my alarm. I have a hard time sleeping through any other alarm - the one in my room at my parents' house scares the sleep out of me every time. Nothing gets your day off right like sitting bolt upright with your eyes bugged out, breath rasping in your lungs, and heart beating in your ears. I avoid using it.
**considers a wake-up light
Actually, moving to CO helped a lot. We get more sunny days and it's south enough that the days aren't as short as they were in Seattle or Rochester. And the cold and snow don't linger like they did in Rochester. And I have a nice, south-facing window by my desk at work so the light comes in. It's the light I really need - three years ago, around this time, I was holed up in the x-ray core for about three weeks solid and that's in the basement. No daylight to be had. It hurt.
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"He attacks. And here I can kill him. But I don't. That's the answer to world peace, people."
-Stickles Shihan