> > I am thoroughly convinced that snooze buttons are the handiwork of Satan. He figured that the
> > alarm clock is entirely too useful / vital an invention, and that he had to find some way not
> > only to defeat its purpose, but also to disallow people from getting any actual additional
> > meaningful sleep. Therefore, he added big, huge buttons to alarm clocks, very easy to hit in a
> > groggy, I-just-woke-up state, that would postpone the alarm for nine minutes - exactly enough time
> > to begin getting back to *real* sleeping, but not to get a significant amount of rest.
>
> Don't blame poor old Satan for your own mistake - it's not his fault you're misusing the snooze button. (Or Is It?!)
>
> The snooze button is, as you say, totally useless for getting significant extra rest - so why try to use it for that?
> If you need to sleep longer, set the alarm later, or go to bed earlier, or something.
>
> No, *this* is the true purpose of the snooze button:
> After you hit it, don't try to go back to sleep. Spend the time pulling yourself together, so when it goes off again, you're not in a groggy I-just-woke-up state, but ready to spring out of bed (or at least get out of bed) and go about your day.
>
> Works for me.
>
> Paul

i'm not sure how it happened, but over the course of the past, oh, 4 years that i've been using an alarm clock, it's gotten to the point where i need at least 3 9-minute snooze button resettings in order to get up. 1-3 or 4 times when i really have no idea that i'm hitting the button, and after that a couple just to convince myself that getting up really is a good idea - or at least not a totally evil one. so, i set my alarm for 6 and end up getting up sometime between 6:30 and 7:15, which gives me plenty of time to get ready, since i leave my house around 8. then of course there are the morning when my brain decides that i've somehow managed to move time back to the first time my alarm went off, so it's yet again 6 and i have another hour to sleep...

i had another dream last night kinda like the one i told you guys about yesterday.... well, somewhat the same, it was much stranger and had a lot of nonsensical stuff in it... but it was yet again my youth group (different place this time though) and yet again "the guy" was there.... you know you're obsessed when even your sub-conscious brings a person up at every possible moment, hm?

uni"but i really DO want to go on another bike trip..."peg