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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 08:48 PM
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Early Risers Are Mutants
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/813/2

I knew there was something wrong with them... I just knew it.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:00 PM
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1. Mutation doesn't always indicate
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 09:00 PM by hippywife
something wrong, you know. Early riser here who enjoys the early hours of the morning when it feels like I have the whole world to myself.

:hi:
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:03 PM
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2. In this case... I'm thinking off to the FEMA death camps with all of you... just to be safe
:7
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:05 PM
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3. I love the early hours of the morning
after I've stayed up all night to see them :P
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:16 PM
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4. It's been a long, long time
since I've done it that route. I'm too old. :P
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:02 AM
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8. I'm 48
and I'm doing it now

Although I may go ahead and git to bed before it gets too light outside...
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anneboleyn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 10:50 PM
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27. My mother prides herself on being an early riser, but she naps all afternoon and is asleep by 9pm
at the very latest. She naps from 4-6pm and then is out cold by 9pm, waking up at an unholy hour (5am or 6am). She thinks she is very productive since she wakes up early, but she doesn't factor in the fact that she naps all afternoon and goes to bed early. My husband and I are late risers but we do not nap at all, nor do we ever feel tired during the day, and we stay up late.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 07:58 AM
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31. I purposely avoid napping in the afternoon
when I'm home on the weekends. If I lie down in the middle of the day, I'm out for hours and then feel like unholy hell. Ugh! Early in our marriage, I would try a nap once in awhile on a Sunday and before I knew it, my husband was waking me up asking, "Are you going to make dinner?" :rofl:

I have way too much to accomplish on the weekends now to even begin to think about napping unless I am really, really ill.

:hi:
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 05:12 AM
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5. Good Morning!
:hi:
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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 05:27 AM
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6. I love the early morning. Unfortunately, I only ever see it when I stay up so late...
that I see the early morning.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:01 AM
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7. Good morning!
Been awake for over an hour now and I feel ready to face the challenges of the day. :hi:
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:05 AM
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9. I have already faced one challenge today:
Countering the Texas-bashing going on in LBN...
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:16 AM
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10. Oh, no...
I'm not wrecking my peaceful morning by going there. :rofl:

I got to watch the ISS disappear into the NE morning sky as Venus began to rise as the morning star. I much prefer starting my day in such a manner.

:hi:
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suninvited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:38 AM
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11. I am an early riser
But 8 out of 10 nights I am sound asleep by nine p.m. But, as far as I know I am the only person in my family that does this.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:39 AM
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12. You're just jealous
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astral Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 09:00 AM
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13. woke up at three today . . . .
and am on my second pot of coffee now so I am better able to handle being called a "mutant" so early in the morning.
It is now two minutes to six. : )

I don't know why I had to get up at three. I was tossing and turning a little trying to go back to sleep and realized I was wide awake and after I decided it must be time to get up i saw it was 3am.

guess i don't want to sleep my weekend away ~~~~!

(but I did go to bed by 10pm!)
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 10:28 AM
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17. "...guess i don't want to sleep my weekend away ..."
There it is right there.

I get two days off per week. I'm not sleeping til noon.

(Although I did sleep in this morning. It was already light outside when I rolled out of bed.)
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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 09:57 AM
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14. Well that explains Baby Carton.
Kid woke up at 6:30 on a Saturday. Sigh.
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Callalily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 10:06 AM
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15. I got up early this
morning and rowed about 4 miles. The river in the morning is the best! So peaceful, so calming.
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tainted_chimp Donating Member (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 11:23 PM
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29. THAT
...sounds like heaven!


I'm usually asleep by midnight...but wake up several times during the course of the night...sometimes for hours at a time.
I never feel fully rested.


Maybe if i rowed 4 miles, I'd be pooped enough to sleep all the whole night through! :think:
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Mopar151 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 10:22 AM
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16. I am willing to let the Mutants live
As long as they go about their day quietly, with NO F'N CHIRPING!
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Pharlo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 01:51 PM
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18. I live with three canine mutants.
One of which equates 'Early Morning' with 'walk' and none of which comprehends the concept of 'weekend'.

I could understand the whole need for a 'walk' if we resided in town, but this animal has 2 1/2 acres I own with an additional 100 acre field adjacent to my property to run on. But NO, I have to get up, put the dog on a leash and walk him.

I, myself, subscribe to the philosophy that if you want to see the sunrise, stay up to watch it.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 05:57 PM
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23. This sounds like a typical domestic canine
now a dog that would let me sleep in on weekends would be a true mutant.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:03 PM
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19. I get up at 5 to get to work. Do you consider that "early"?
Edited on Sat Aug-22-09 02:04 PM by Bucky
Far as I know, my only mutation is that I was born without the genetic coding for a full set of wisdom teeth. Technically speaking, I think I still qualify as homo sapiens, if not quite as sapiens as the rest of you.
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dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:55 PM
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20. I think that if God wanted you to see a sunrise,
he'd have scheudled it later in the morning.
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Sheltiemama Donating Member (892 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 07:39 PM
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25. Agreed.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 03:00 PM
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21. Not only do I get up early...
... I'm also perky in the mornings

Take that!
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 03:22 PM
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22. Including the cats...?
Middle of summer, Plato thinks 4 and a half in the a.m. is a perfectly fine time to start yowling for breakfast. At least he doesn't get up until 7:30am in the winter... :P
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anneboleyn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 10:46 PM
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26. Wow, your cats get up? Ours sleep until noon or so, run around, then sleep some more
Eat, sleep, bother the people for some food then some love, then more sleep. They are definitely not early risers (which is good for us) That's an average day in the kitteh household here.
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 08:20 AM
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32. Breakfast is apparently an important ritual in their social order
It's one of the few times where they can all (five of 'em!) be piled up in a 3ft by 2ft floor space and not try to out-coup each other for the leadership of the horde. :P
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:03 PM
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24. Early risers are in fact mutants
Being bright and chipper before the break of dawn is a superhuman power qualifying them for a scholarship at the Xavier Institute, along with other mutants having super-human powers.
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Silver Swan Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 11:19 PM
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28. When I was working, I arose around 4:30 am,
and I fell asleep around 8:00 pm.

I still needed enough sleep--I just got it earlier. Now that I'm retired, I don't wake up until 9:00 am, or so.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:55 AM
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30. I got up at 4:45 to read this bullshit?
Might as well go back to bed....

mark
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