Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_aset From: ins_aset@jhunix.UUCP (Susanne E Trowbridge) Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles Subject: Re: Sleeping Message-ID: <2197@jhunix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 15:04:20 EST Article-I.D.: jhunix.2197 Posted: Thu Mar 13 15:04:20 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Mar-86 10:37:54 EST References: <5162@kestrel.ARPA> <1281@lll-crg.ARpA> < <525@watdragon.UUCP> <548@cisden.UUCP> Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 29 Xref: watmath net.women:9759 net.singles:10997 > > The best solution is to sleep when you're tired, (instead of saying, > "Well, 'MASH' is over, it's 11:00, it's time for bed"; what if you're > not tired? Do you go to bed anyway, just because it's your bedtime?), > and get up when you wake up (rather than looking at the clock and saying, > "Oh, I've only had 7-1/2 hours of sleep instead of the 8 that I need to > function, so I'm still tired and I'm going back to sleep for a half-hour"; > what if you feel refreshed after only 5 hours? Do you go back to sleep > just because your clock tells you to? What makes your clock so supreme > that it can tell you what to do?). > > Gregg Mackenzie > cisden!gmack Well, Gregg, that sounds just lovely. But what about those of us who have to be at work at 8? If I slept until I "felt refreshed," I'd undoubtedly be fired for showing up about four hours late for work... -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Sue Trowbridge "You put two mirrors up against each other, and there's infinity, but you can never see it, 'cause your head blocks it off." --Robyn Hitchcock bitnet: ins_aset@jhunix.BITNET arpa : ins_aset%jhunix.BITNET@wiscvm.WISC.EDU uucp : ...{ihnp4!whuxcc | seismo!umcp-cs | allegra!hopkins} jhunix!ins_aset OR ...decvax!decuac!aplvax!aplcen!jhunix!ins_aset