Big Ugly #5

Many many many many apologies for dragging out the Big Uglies and for taking this long between posts. I've been living a big of chaos lately; on top of that, 11 of the last 16 days the internet has been out at my apartment. I finally got a night I could scoot up the street to Panera and I'm enjoying a smoothie as I type this. Some of you may know I'm lactose intolerant and will likely regret the smoothie choice later. YOLO (<--- is that still a thing?) I figured it would be rude to come mooch their wi-fi and not buy something. It does taste pretty good so it's not totally regrettable. Yet.

Any way..... The last Ugly Truth of adulthood I'm talking about is sleep. Just last week I was FaceTiming my brother. We had tried to do it a few nights before but I was getting in bed at 9 and he was working on homework still. The night we finally did FaceTime he was just getting back from meeting for a project and said he was going to be up until midnight or 1am and back up at 5am to go lift for football. I don't miss that part of college. I love leaving work each day and knowing I don't have to bring any work with me. I realize this is not the case with a lot of jobs but I am at work more than 10 hours a day and don't know that I could really handle spending a few more hours at home each night doing more work. Props to the people that do that. I don't miss the homework. Sidenote: last week (while on a stretch of home internet for a few days) I was researching how to start a garden. I was taking notes because gardens are a lot of work. I was copying and pasting notes left and right and didn't note what website any of it came from because I wasn't about to cite them. I just wanted the notes all in the same place.

The part of college I do miss is the ability to take a nap after class and not feel the slightest bit bad about it. Adulthood kinda sucks. You can't take a nap at your desk when the afternoon gets slow and no one is answering your calls. I have seen a few people do it and look very alarmed when they realized they fell asleep at their desk for an unknown amount of time. In college I always liked getting up early and going to the library to when no one else was there. I could claim a table and work distraction free for quite awhile. I could go to class and come back and take a nap undisturbed before my roommates got back. It was great. But citations weren't. You win some, you lose some.

I'm boring and go to bed around 9:30pm every night. Sorry to anyone that texts me after that point (aka Sarah Ea last night) because I read your message between 5 and 5:30am and then usually forget to respond because I decide I don't want to disturb normal people sleep schedules and respond at ungodly hours of the day. Or I respond and hope people don't get mad about me texting back while I eat breakfast at 6:15. Also my idea of sleeping in includes waking up after 7 on a weekend. I feel like I've gained 10 extra hours of sleep when I get to sleep in. It's really not that much extra but it sure feels like it. And I love it.

Sleep is precious in college; you get it where you can. In adulthood, you hope you never fall asleep at your desk or during a semi-important meeting. Sure, in college you can stay up late one night and sleep in the next day or take a heck of a midday nap to make up for lost sleep. But that doesn't happen in the adult world. I come from a family of serious nappers (aka my grandma takes the phone off the hook when she naps because she does not want to be awakened) and I really miss a good, midafternoon snooze to power through the evening. College students, cherish your afternoon naps because they don't exist in the real world (except on weekends and they are GLORIOUS then).