Time is the only difference since my schedule ends at different times each day of the week. But everyday the ritual is the same: come home from class and fall on my bed. It's only in the safety of my pillow that I'm ever truly at ease, and each day that I lay back down and let my head sink into the feathers, I wonder, "Why exactly did I get out of bed today?"
Though it is clearly not a good decision to stay in bed all day and skip out on all the work we need to do, the concept becomes more and more appealing each day. Especially on days when it is raining outside, the pathetic fallacy has a direct influence on my life. Now that exams are rapidly approaching and I'm stuck in Alderman trying to write three papers and read all the things that were supposed to have been read in October, my pillow has graduated from calling me and has moved on to purchase a foghorn and a megaphone. As sleep gets more unattainable, it becomes more and more desirable, just like everything else.
I feel like this is a topic that most college students can relate to.
We have all, at one time or other, hit the snooze button for the precious 10 more minutes that in the long run just makes you more tired. Take that 10 minutes and stretch it to an hour and a half and you have my morning ritual. Some part of my social awareness tells me that I should be waking early and cooking breakfast, starting the day with a phone call home and all the other Donna Reed crap. What actually happens though, is my alarm clock starts blaring the worst possible noise frequency at a ludicrous volume that has become so common to my morning experience that it takes 15 minutes to actually wake me up
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