4:45 AM is the wakeup time for the next week. 5:00 AM on Saturday.
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| "Joan of Arc," Siemiradzki |
I'll clock Matins and Lauds for the week, too. This morning, it began at 5:40 AM and lasted 55 mins.
The 4:45 AM instead of 4:30 AM gets me an extra 90 mins of sleep per week since I had pervious not been getting to bed any earlier. It should also preempt the Saturday morning binge-sleep-fest that's been the last several Saturdays. That consisted of sleeping in until after 7:00 AM. That kind of oversleeping would be akin to gorging oneself if I hadn't otherwise failed to get to bed on-time.
Why not 5:00 AM? For that to result in a hurried recitation and flying out of here to get to school, I'd have to both skip the quick coffee 'n brief headline check as well as be absolutely prompt at every turn in the morning out of the gates. Each moment between 5:00 AM and 7:30 AM would need to be right on time with great alacrity. Perhaps that's something to work towards. If so, then 5:00 AM could buy me an additional 105 mins of sleep per week.
But for now, I'll give myself a bit more time (another week) to perfect the execution of this morning routine.
It affects blogposts, because with a 4:30 AM wake I was blogging with coffee and headlines before ML. Where this wore down was with the loss of 90 mins of sleep per week. I liked that I could do it and may return to it depending on how important the blogging is to me. But for now, these posts will be with "second breakfast."
