[weland]

After 10 AM it is.

Following various events in highschool, I ended up with a fucked-up sleep schedule. I'm generally fine with 6-7 hours of sleep, but unless they're from 3 AM to 10 AM, I'm useless. Even this is more or less socially and workplace-unacceptable, so during weekdays I wake up at 08:30 or so. I end up very tired on Friday evening and have to make up for the lost valuable sleep during the weekend, but I can function. Factoring in breakfast and stuff, plus the 30-minute walk to work (I insist on doing the walking -- I could save 10-15 minutes using public transportation but I actually want to walk), I usually start coding around 10:30.

For about six years I wrestled with this, along with my very supportive physician. Eventually I gave up; two or three times I managed to get into a more or less early rising routine (waking up around 6 AM), but not only did it make me miserable, it also didn't last long. One all-nighter (and I had plenty of those during in university) or one lazy weekend day that didn't make me so tired at 23:00 that I could have fallen asleep on an airplane engine was enough to fuck up my sleep schedule again.