karma.

ugh you get up at 5am - how are you a morning person?

the secret is i'm not. well, i used to be when i was like 12. and then really just a fake because i was an athletic fanatic in high school and had morning practice all the time (don't miss those days). turned hard core night owl in my third year of college. i'm talking spooking around at 2:30am. which only got worse when i turned 21 and got into all kinds of late night shenanigans. that took it's toll when i was unfortunate enough to have 7am classes (or really even 9am classes). so when this quarter rolled around, and i don't have a class later than 8am monday through thursday, i decided it was time to put some real talk into my schedule and suck it up.

for me, that translated to setting my alarm for 5am and making the ringtone something obnoxious. i tried the whole "waking up to my favorite morning song" thing. nope. give me that blaring, comes with the phone, fire alarm tone. this may seem like overkill to some. yes, i get up 2-3 hours before i need to be in class but my days of waking up and being awake instantly are over. i need to turn on my space heater, moan groan and complain to myself in bed for a second, turn on my tea kettle and actually make breakfast. if i can get through those motions, the day has begun and i'm not tempted to slip back into bed.

my other revelation has been to make a connection with my professor so that i am so overcome with a sense of guilt and shame when i think about skipping class that it drives my very soul to the bus stop. this fell into my lap for my 7am class this quarter. i ride the bus with my professor to class - how's that for accountability? she's young, has an indian accent and is seriously the sweetest woman. plus being one of the few people that appears to be awake enough to utilize the motor skill of speech, i've got this whole class participation thing under wraps. badda bing. badda boom.

the crazy thing is, for all the classes that i've snoozed my way through in the past, probably the same number have been canceled this quarter. it's like the angels above have come down and said, katherine?! actually going to all her morning classes? let's have some good karma flow her way. i've already exclaimed the joys of my 8am photography class being canceled here but this morning my 7am sociology professor told us she was going to cancel class thursday. no joke - a collective sigh of relief made its way around our bleary eyed classroom so audibly that our professor had to chuckle a little bit herself.

needless to say i'm stoked about sleeping in thursday morning. which these days translates to 6:30am.

you're such a grandma!

yeah, well so it goes. happy tuesday!