Scalzi's Weekend Assignment: What's your favorite time of day and why? It doesn't have to be a specific hour and minute, mind you: "early morning" or "after midnight" or "sunset" works just fine, too. Although if you do have a very specific time, by all means note it.
Right now is my favorite time of day, and I don't mean that in the Susie Sunshine "every minute is great" (**gag**) sense. My favorite time of day is the "Me Time" I set aside for myself between 9:30 and 10:30 every morning. My alarm is set for 9:00, and I leave for work at 11:00. In that time, I have to eat breakfast, pack lunch/dinner, shower, and get ready for work. That leaves me over an hour to snooze, blog, read blogs, e-mail, and otherwise slowly ease into my day.
Unless Scott wakes up, it's perfectly silent - the only time of day there's nothing to listen to. Generally, this is also the time of day when my cats want to either sit on my lap or at my feet. They, too, enjoy our quiet time.
Of course, I do have a favorite "minute" also: 11:11. At some point in junior high, my friends and I got on this kick where we would make a wish if we caught the clock showing all the same numbers (2:22, 4:44, etc.) because a time when all the same numbers on the clock matched was considered lucky. By this logic, 11:11 became the two luckiest minutes of the day.
Extra Credit: What's the longest you've ever stayed awake? I believe that would be my 21st birthday. Less than 48 hours, and I thought I was going to die! I woke up at 6 am on March 2 for class, stayed up all day, had some friends over that night and ended up staying up all night with one of them. We went to breakfast the next morning (on my birthday, and I paid!), and then I got in a friend's car and went home for Spring Break. My gay ex-boyfriend cooked me dinner that night, and then he and his boyfriend took me out to a gay bar for my first legal drinks (and I didn't even get carded). We ended up at a diner at 2 am where exhaustion and alcohol combined to make me cry when our booth got bumped into by a busboy. I think I fell asleep in the car after that.
Of course, I think I've proved that even 24 hours awake can be disastrous in my own special way. Sleep is my friend, and I try not to go without.
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The absolute BEST time of day is sunrise ... and nowadays, I get to see a lot of them. They're nicer than sunsets. And I also like going to bed. I LOVE going to bed! There's just something so nice about the end of a day.
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