Night people are the next evolutionary step. When the ozone is gone, and going outside during the day means you fry like a strip of bacon, then we’ll see who’s on top! My daily schedule will be unchanged. You’re daily schedule will involve applying sunblock with a trowel. Suckers!
I have always loved watching the sun rise. I like seeing the sky get slowly brighter, and hearing the birds start chirping as they greet the day. Then I go to bed and get some sleep. 
Guin, you’re better off not knowing.
Trust me on this.
I love coming home in the morning just before the sun rises. The air is calm and the birds are just waking up. The best thing is the people who have just gotten out of bed and are heading to work, when I’m know I’ll be asleep in my warm bed in half an hour or so. Happiness is elevated to whole other level when everyone else is miserable.
Damnit, I miss being a student. Well, technically I’m a student for another week, but I’m working so I have to be at the office at the ungodly hour of 10AM.
I think the root of the problem lies in that perception by society labels morning people as ‘motivated’ and night people as ‘lazy’ when in fact they are neither. I’m a lazy morning person, I just need quiet time to start off my day, I get up and read email, do the message boards, then probably game some.
Can’t we all just get along?
I have a dream, that one day my kids will be born and discover on their own accord whether they prefer the morning or the night and can go to class without fear of persecution simply over their sleeping times.
Sorry, I may be a morning person but I only got 2 hours last night.
What on Earth makes you think that I am personally advocating such monstrosities. I got it from a book of busybody pieces of advice that most possibly never have been asked for. Didn’t you see my doubtful smiley? 
I am not a morning person. I get up every day at 06:30 so that I can go to work and actually be there at 08:00. I find this to be a highly disappointing thing, something that tortures me day and night, because my best period of sleep is almost completely wiped out. I feel the most rested if I sleep from about 04:00 until about 10:00 or 11:00.
However, in order to keep getting a paycheck, I pry my sorry ass out of the sack every morning and take myself to work. I get in the car, I drive there, I drink my coffee and smoke my cigarettes all without speaking to anyone. I enter the building at about 07:50, and I do not wish to be talked to for the first ten minutes so that I can acclimate myself to having to be polite. I have worked here for more than two years, and always have been this way, yet people believe that one of these days I will magically begin to smile and laugh and be friendly in the morning. They think I am mad at them.
My work week, thankfully, is one day shorter than most people’s (I work 40 hours in 4 days), so I do not have to deal with there being five mornings in a week. Now, two of my workdays go from 08:00 to 22:00 (I use 24 hour time for that reason), and most people are quite amazed that although I walk into work half dead asleep, I am quite well awake somewhere around 20:00. Despite the fact that I know I will be getting up at 06:30, and not by choice, I cannot seem to force myself into bed earlier than around 01:30. I can make myself get in bed, but falling asleep is not possible until it is technically the next day.
I don’t understand the ‘wisdom’ behind believing that someone like myself who would much rather wake up at 11:00 and work from 12:00 to 20:00 five days a week so that I can go to bed at 04:00 and feel more rested is lazy.
My mother is a morning person. She gets up at 04:00 every day. Even on weekends. Even on summer vacation (she’s a teacher).
She is one of those happy-sappy morning people who believe that night people like myself are lazy. I like to laugh and ask her when the last time she pulled a 72 hour coding marathon was. Personally, I don’t care that there are morning people.
Just don’t talk to me until noon.
I am sort of a mid-morning person who has grudgingly forced myself to function as a morning person for most of my life. Although how I used to arrive at high school for 7:15 am choir practice is now beyond me. Of course, back then I didn’t have an hour commute each way. Most of the time, I feel incredibly sleep-deprived.
I had a boyfriend, for three years, who was a 100% night person. It gave us serious relationship problems. I had a job back then where I absolutely, positively had to leave home at 7:30 in order to arrive at 8:30, or there would be two pissed-off attorneys, pissed-off potential deportees, witnesses, and (most importantly) a pissed-off judge all waiting for me, because they couldn’t start their work without me. Plus not only did I have to be there and awake, I had to be perky and 110% bilingual.
So my ex couldn’t understand why a) at 10 pm, I wanted to be going to sleep, not getting raunchy, and b) if he wanted to sleep in, that was fine, but then he had to actually remember to bring the spare set of keys I had given him so I could go to work on time and he could leave and lock up at his leisure. He was one of those people who is most awake from 10 pm to 3 am. Given my druthers, my schedule would have been much closer to his, but it just wasn’t going to work that way. It wasn’t the only thing that did us in finally, but it was a big one.
I’m also a morning person, which kind of sucks since I started night school.
I’ve been trying to adjust to become a night person but I just can’t do it! I love the mornings! My X was a night person and it used to drive me batty, since I was raised hearing “sleeping in past noon and you’re WASTING THE DAY!!” Sleeping in for me would be until 8:30 or so, 9:00 if I was up really late (like 1 or 2). I just love the early morning. It’s so peaceful and fresh and new.
I do agree that a lot more venom seems to be directed towards morning people than night people. I think all you night people are forgetting that as annoying as you find us morning people in the morning, we find you at night!
Morning and night people living in harmony? Color me shocked. I just figured I had to find me a nice fellow mornin’ person to hook up with or face a life of frustration in the mornings.
Aren’t these the same thing?
It’s interesting that not all of the night people have posted to this thread in their best hours and vice versa (adjusted for time zone). There’s some suspicious posts, like a self-professed night person posting before 10AM. hmmm.
Personally, I’d prefer something like sleeping from 4 am-noon if I could manage it. I can’t even think straight til past noon during weekdays. Too bad the powers that be can’t be so accommodating!
ataraxy22 Even us night people have to work ungodly hours sometimes. yawn
Homebrew:
Former night person checking in. I found that my problem was a sleeping disorder, sleep apnea. I always wanted to sleep 15 hours a day! Now that I am actually getting real sleep, I LOVE getting up at 6:30 am on the weekends. Although it might have something to do with my fiance being a morning person, too.
Saturdays are meant for hitting the garage sales!