In the summer there are those occasional early appointments and church to get up for and it is during the summer that I am capable of waking up to a simple alarm (although it may require one push of the snooze button before my feet hit the ground.) During the school year though, it is a completely different story.
My teaching contract requires I be at school by 7:15am, but I usually try to get to school by 7. Taking into account the hour it takes me to get ready and out the door and the ten minute drive I try to make sure I’m up and going by 5:45am, but the routine begins much earlier than this.
Here is my morning alarm regime:
5:20 am—The outlet timer on my bedside lamp turns the lamp on.
5:30 am—My Oregon Scientific Alarm clock goes off (it is silent, but has a vibrating sensor that shakes my pillow)… I push snooze.
5:35 am—My back-up alarm clock buzzes for about a minute until I push snooze.
5:38 am—The pillow sensor shakes again and I push snooze again.
5:40 am—The television comes on and the sound of the morning news fills the room.
5:42 am—The back-up alarm buzzes again and I turn it off.
5:45 am—I slide out of bed turning the Oregon Scientific Alarm off and the overhead light on.
Now mind you… this is when everything goes as it is supposed to. I have been known during an especially exhausting week (or on the morning after I stay up until 2am reading) to continue the snooze pushing on both alarm clocks for three or four rounds, which puts me off schedule in the morning about 30 minutes… but if I skip breakfast, leave my bed unmade, and slip my shoes on in the car on those mornings, I can usually make it to work right in time.
5:20 am—The outlet timer on my bedside lamp turns the lamp on.
5:30 am—My Oregon Scientific Alarm clock goes off (it is silent, but has a vibrating sensor that shakes my pillow)… I push snooze.
5:35 am—My back-up alarm clock buzzes for about a minute until I push snooze.
5:38 am—The pillow sensor shakes again and I push snooze again.
5:40 am—The television comes on and the sound of the morning news fills the room.
5:42 am—The back-up alarm buzzes again and I turn it off.
5:45 am—I slide out of bed turning the Oregon Scientific Alarm off and the overhead light on.
Now mind you… this is when everything goes as it is supposed to. I have been known during an especially exhausting week (or on the morning after I stay up until 2am reading) to continue the snooze pushing on both alarm clocks for three or four rounds, which puts me off schedule in the morning about 30 minutes… but if I skip breakfast, leave my bed unmade, and slip my shoes on in the car on those mornings, I can usually make it to work right in time.
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