The AM conspiracy

[Neil Ward]

Tabouli said:

<< ...the world is run according to a morning person conspiracy.  I detest
the 9 to 5 work day, especially the 9 part.  If forced to kick-start myself
by then I run on autopilot until my brain joins me around 11.  OTOH, I am in
fine form between about 8pm and 2am.  It's oppression!  Evening people of
the world, unite! >>

Count me in as a creature of the night!  I try to roll into work not too
long after nine, but, like you, I don't become fully human until around
11am, after sucking up a lake of black coffee.  I work best between about
3pm and 8pm, but can continue through to 4am without too much difficulty, if
required.  I'm often reading these lists around 5am, UK time, and sometimes
stay awake until 7am, when - hey presto! - it's time to go to work again.

In truth, I don't sleep much... but I do dream.  Every once in a while, the
fatigue hits me, and I have to crawl into a cardboard box full of straw to
hibernate.  Daylight bothers me, and I hate the sun.  I like the security of
the dark, the wind and the rain.

For a while, I had the impression that all Americans are at their posts by
7.30am, eating donuts, drinking insipid coffee from huge paper cups,
surrounded by ringing phones, with the sound of police sirens and car horns
in the street outside, tapping away at computer terminals or spinning round
on chairs to whip sheets of paper from giant typewriters.  Then, I realised
that was just something I saw on "Kojak".

Neil