Have you ever woken up so early you try to reason with your alarm clock? This morning i had to wake up at 5:30 to pick a friend up at 6:00 to take her to the airport. I of course stayed up way to late (about 2:30 or so). Shortly after I closed my eyes my alarm goes off, violently. As i fumble with the phone to turn it off i find my self mumbling at my phone; "Oh come on, FIVE THIRTY, who needs to be up that early. 10 more minutes come on man!". I finally manage to hit the snooze and then do possibly the worst thing you can do after waking up to deal with your alarm. I lay back down and try to go back to sleep.

I presume most of you internet types have done this, because when your alarm goes off those 10 minutes are precious. The only reason that you feel so tired is because you didn't get those last couple minutes of sleep. It has nothing to do with the late night bender, or extracurricular activities, or the fact that you got 2 hours of sleep. If you only had ten more minutes right? WRONG. Those ten minutes are the fine print of waking up. Sure you can go back to sleep for ten minutes, because who wants to get up when you could go back to sleep right? Well if you get up you could potentially be done with a shower, or at least in the shower, which makes things substantially better. But no, you chose to sleep more, so lay your head down for those ten minutes. But you cant just fall back to sleep right away can you? No that takes time, damn now you've wasted two minutes thinking about how you cant fall back asleep right away. so you do everything possible and think you fall asleep, then you think you overslept, and look at the clock. Nope two more minutes left, and now you try to wring all the sleep out of those two minutes you possibly can. But lets be serious, unless im being tapped on the shoulder right now.... which my future self hasn't done, meaning i most likely haven't designed a time machine, then those two minutes are still two minutes. Ya just looked, no future me, so you are now fighting with you alarm clock pleading for more time. But your alarm clock cant help you, it is just the cruel cold uncaring enforcer of the laws of time; And alas those laws say you need to drag your ass out of bed and take that shower, which you would have been done with by now had you not of taken those last 10 minutes of guilt laced panic inducing sleep.