Morning Radio Hell
I am not a morning person. Never have been, and probably never will be. The only time I’ve woken up early and enjoyed it was right after I got back from a week and a half in Italy. Getting up at 6am seemed great, because that meant I’d slept until noon, Italy time.
I have 9am class this semester which means that I have to do the most horrifying thing: go to bed in the PM so I can wake up at 7:30am.
It’s actually not so bad. Or well, it wouldn’t be so bad if a) the neighbor boy would learn that 1am is not the time to be carrying on a loud conversation or blasting music with your window open, and b) I could find a decent alarm.
Shrill, digital alarm-y tones don’t work, because they just make me want to throw them out the window and go back to sweet, undisturbed sleep.
Pop radio works well after 9am — peppy, fluffy, and mostly non-irritating.
But at 7:30am? Radio is infused with the current bane of my existence: The obnoxious morning DJ.
Today I woke up to several choruses of “Here we go, Steelers, here we go!” For those who aren’t privileged to live in Steelers country, the tune is both grating and banal. The hyperactive Steelers chatter was accompanied by some wholly unnecessary detail about someone’s broken foot and the unfortunate laugh of the female DJ, which sounds like the love child of a banshee and the Wicked Witch of the West.
I kept hitting the snooze button in hopes that 9 minutes later, I might re-wake up to something that sounded pleasant. No such luck.
Chipanglish
CogKnition
Gustatory Circuit
What about using your iPod as an alarm clock? Presumably, you like the stuff on there better than radio chatter….
(And, no, I still haven’t gotten the internet connection thing resolved. Typing this on my roommate’s PC loaded with Win98 just isn’t the same…)
Also see the relatively more recent Waking Up to the iPod Alarm Clock, which includes info on creating a “wake up” playlist and a link to appropriately annoying noises likely to get you out of bed (including jackhammers, foghorns, and nuclear alerts).
I would totally use my iPod as an alarm clock, but for the lack of speakers. I suppose I could cannibalize the speakers from my office computer, which rarely get used anyways. Hmmm.
Or, I can get you one of these for Christmas.