My Mornings

I'm a senior right now, right about to finish High School, and senioritis has hit me pretty hard over the past couple months. I found that, if I don't get to bed before 11:00, I don't get up for school the next morning. I don't like it. So that's been something that I've had to deal with.

In the mornings, I wake up to my buzzer around 6. The radio alarm stopped working for me a while back. I've just recently discovered the snooze button.. ten more minutes of sleep and dreams.

This morning I hit it once, and the second time, I was going to hit it again and just be late, but I realized that I had an exam today. It's weird, I always made the excuse that my grogginess makes me miss school, but now I know that I can be rational. I guess I weigh the options in the morning:

• How sleepy I am
• How cold it is out of the bed
• Whether I have anything important that day
• How my dad will react to me sleeping in

On that last point - my Dad is pretty chill when it comes to letting me sleep in. I like it, but at the same time I dislike it. If my dad were stricter and reacted more harshly to my sleeping in, then I wouldn't make a habit of it.

Points:

1. Senioritis is real. It's a subtle thing that just happens
2. Anger can discourage bad or lazy behavior
3. Schools should not start before 8am