{"id":414,"date":"2015-05-10T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2016-05-17T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T01:29:00","slug":"not-ashamed-night-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/10\/not-ashamed-night-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Ashamed: Night Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t already, please read the introduction post<\/a>. That will give you context for this page.<\/p>\n

\n

And now for something a little lighter. Or darker, I guess. Because, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122know, night time. Creature of the night! Night owl.<\/p>\n

\"Owl<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not an insomniac. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a night owl.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a wannabe vampire. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a night owl.<\/p>\n

My circadian rhythms have spoken! And, sure, being a night owl can be handy for the rockstar thing and the pale thing, but it obviously puts me at odds with the normal world, produces some complications, and seems to lead to (what I consider) unwarranted mocking and resentment.<\/p>\n

People make a lot of assumptions, including a certain loved one who spent years telling me I just wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t disciplined enough. Or the many people who think that me waking up at noon is a luxury and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m lazy. (It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not. I get the 8-9 hours of sleep I need, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all, and then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m stupid busy and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even really find time for video games any more.)<\/p>\n

But I can tell you that my body temperature confirms my night owl-ness. Really, you can use your body temperature and some mindfulness to figure it out.<\/p>\n

And my creative rhythm also confirms it. Not that I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stay up late to obey the muse, even if I were a morning lark or day walker or whatever you call normal people.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think you sunlight kids are less cool. But you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to wait until a little later in the day for me to be awake enough to be legitimately reassuring on that point.<\/p>\n

\"baby<\/a><\/p>\n

To go a little serious:<\/p>\n