[ghshephard]

With the exception of "Can't miss, must catch International Flights to Australia" and one "Stayed out late drinking and have to give a major customer presentation in a strange city in precisely 4 1/2 hours" - I haven't used an alarm in 6 years. There are a lot of people, particularly after you turn 30, that basically wake up after 6 or 7 hours of sleep, and, as long as you went to bed with a personal mandate to be somewhere at a particular time, have relatively little difficulty getting up.

This is very, very, very different from when I was younger, when _every morning_ waking up was like some sleep deprivation torture - it physically hurt to get up, and I would have done everything to get a bit more sleep.

I used to fantasize about how wonderful it would have been to go to sleep in my school classroom, and then just wake up and start working.

And then I went to work at Netscape in 1996, 25% of the people had little sleeping bags and mattresses under their desk - and yes, it was wonderful. :-)