# What time do you get up? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233 "2001-03-08T16:13:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![curious\_george](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@curious\_george](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious_george)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/1 "2001-03-08T16:13:33Z")
I usually get up at 6 weekdays and 8:30 weekends. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/2 "2001-03-08T16:18:40Z")
I try for as late as I can get away with. My body doesn’t seem to like letting me sleep past 10:30. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/3 "2001-03-08T16:31:53Z")
I usually wake up no later than 6:30am whether I want to or not. I guess I’m just a morning person, as much as I hate to admit it. It’s really strange these days because I only have to be at work at 8:30 and it’s about a 20 minute commute. Grooming only takes so long - after that it’s generally sitting in a coffee shop doing crossword puzzles. ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/4 "2001-03-08T16:32:18Z")
My alarm goes off at 7:30, at which time I get out of bed and shower, dress, go to work. But I should be waking up any minute now. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/5 "2001-03-08T16:43:34Z")
When my 22 pound kitty starts walking on my chest and head. Lately this has been around 5 frickin 30. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/6 "2001-03-08T16:56:21Z")
Got to be at work by 07:30 which means I need to leave the house by 07:00 if I’m gonna make the 20 minute walk in time. So I set the first alarm for 06:00 and end up oozing out of bed around 06:30. Get off at 16:30, home by 16:50, eat din-din around 18:00, get ready for bed around 21:30, get into bed at 22:00, watch the news until I fall asleep somewhere around 22:30. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/7 "2001-03-08T16:56:29Z")
Between 8 and 9. I’m a grad student, so no one actually cares when I come in. However, I still have to work a certain number of hours (since I want to actually graduate), so if I sleep in, I end up going to bed later, and then sleep in more, and eventually I’m nocturnal, like a hamster. I try to avoid that. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/8 "2001-03-08T16:56:31Z")
On work days, my alarm goes off at 5AM, and I lie there listening to the first 10 minutes of Morning Edition before dragging my sorry carcass to the shower. Weekends, I still wake up early, but if I don’t hear the doggies fussing to get out, I roll over and doze till 7 or so… ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/9 "2001-03-08T17:47:13Z")
Usually about 04.30. Every day except the weekend. then I let myself sleep in until 06.30. Up, running and weights at 04.30 in the cold. Doesn’t that sound good? No? You’re right, it sucks major donkey balls. I am, however, going to live forever,as I cannot now be killed by conventional weapons. It gives me time to think when yahoos aren’t around, though, and sunrises are usually pretty. Plus, I get some weird satisfaction being awake before 75% of the population. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/10 "2001-03-09T02:17:46Z")
5:00 a.m. or before on week days and usually around 6:30 - 7:00 on weekends. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalMuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/11 "2001-03-09T02:44:15Z")
On school days, usually around 6:20am On non-school days, generally anywhere from 7-10am, with some exceptions ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/12 "2001-03-09T02:56:50Z")
My life changes from month to month, but my alarm generally goes off 1 1/2 hours before I have to be somewhere. (This figure came about via extensive trial and error.) Right now, on the relatively benevolent psychiatry, I have to be there around 8:00, so the alarm goes off at 6:30. When I was on surgery back in the fall, my patients had to be seen and my notes written before rounds–at 6:00. The alarm was going off at 3:30. The patients, incidentally, were not happy to be awakened by some damn medical student at 5:00 AM on the day after their surgery. (The notes were not exactly top-notch, either–usually some variation on “looks good from door”.) Left to my own devices, I almost always get up between 9 and 10. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/13 "2001-03-09T03:03:15Z")
During the week, I’m up at 4:30 so I can drink coffee, do the whole grooming thing, walk to the train station, and be at work by 7:00. Weekends, I’m usually up by 6:00 or 6:30. My body doesn’t sleep any later anymore. I guess I’m used to it. Although it sucks when you realize that you can’t stay up until 2 or 3 in the morning both weekend nights anymore, because it will screw up your sleep patterns for the first 2 days of the week. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/14 "2001-03-09T03:15:27Z")
Fortunately I only work a few blocks from home so the commute time is nearly zilch. I pull awake between 6 and 6:30 a.m. and hate it every blinkin’ day. (I’m a natural night owl forced into a daytime pattern. It sucks.) It still takes every minute to take the dog out, exercise, get my eyes open, stop cussing, stagger into the shower and somehow face that godawful _daylight_ out there. It’s never gotten easier and that’s a fact. Within a few hours my brain is actually working. Just don’t show me food until at least 10 a.m. and don’t, if you value you’re life, _ever_ invite me to a “breakfast meeting”. ::shudders:: Veb ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/15 "2001-03-09T03:22:41Z")
4:15. 45 minutes to do a bit of stretching, a tiny bit of exercise (enough to wake up, not enough to count as exercise), check my e-mail etc. At 5:00 Shower, grab a cuppa java and out the door by 5:25 to get to work at 5:45. Unless I have to work the earlier shift. _Then_ I have to get up early! 😉 Saturdays, I try to sleep in but that ol’ biological clock wakes me up right on the button. Overall, I prefer the early shift. Most days I’m off work by 2:30 and have the rest of the afternoon/evening to enjoy myself. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/16 "2001-03-09T03:22:52Z")
my alarm sounds at 4:21 a.m., i hit the dang snooze button (remember we learned its nine minutes long right here in these pages…) and end up getting out of bed at 4:30 a.m. i then take a shower, shave, check my reflection - if it’s still there, i leave for work. i only have a ten minute walk to work (i reside in a camp in the far north), but i like to get to my office early so i can check the brilliant repartee here and then i do the cnn crossword and i’m good to go for the day. ---
**Author:** ![cheezit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@cheezit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheezit)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/17 "2001-03-09T03:24:52Z")
In bed at 9 p.m. usually. Up weekdays at 4 a.m. On the weekends I “sleep in” until 5 a.m. or so. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/18 "2001-03-09T03:28:54Z")
Alarm is set for 6 am so I can leave the house by 7 for work. However, for some time I have been waking up at 5 am. Good time for a cup of tea and the on-line newspapers (now if that isn’t an oxymoron). Unfortunately, I end up getting up at 5 on Saturday and Sunday (my days off) also. ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/19 "2001-03-09T03:41:02Z")
I wake up around 11 every week day and wake up around 2 or 3 pm on the weekend. I know that sounds really bad but during the week I don’t get to bed before 5am and on the weekends about 3-4am so it’s not like I sleep all day (well some of the time) ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Bannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Race\_Bannon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Bannon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233/20 "2001-03-09T03:54:17Z")
For about the last 20 years or so I get up at 5:30am weekdays, 7:30 am weekends, or maybe late as 9 or 10 (if I went to a casino or topless bar the night before). When I was younger, I worked a 3pm to midnight shift, and could sleep as late as I wanted. Strangely, I found that getting up late (maybe getting too much sleep) made me irritable. Or maybe it was lack of sex… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-get-up/57233.md?page=2)