proposing a trade

[mrissa]

Does anybody want a trade? You can have my 3-5 p.m. if I can have your 6-8 a.m. Or even 7-9 a.m. would do.

Usually I have the happy brain chemistry. Occasionally I find myself thinking that nothing I write will ever be worthwhile again and incidentally all the other stuff I'm doing is bad and wrong, too. And when I look at the clock, it is invariably late afternoon when I think that stuff. Happily, I am smart enough to look at the clock every time now. Sadly, it still happens.

So whaddaya say? There are surely many of you who aren't happy with those hours of the day but like the late afternoon just fine.

(This in lieu of mopier content. Spanish rice recipe and report on Minsk Market of Eagan later.)

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I will happily give you my 6-8 am. Because when I am conscious then, I am not precisely /happy/.

Whereas I am productive, energetic, and worthwhile in the late afternoon.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Sometimes momentum gets me productive and worthwhile in the late afternoon, but mostly my productive times are mornings and evenings.

[brooksmoses]

Would 10 a.m. to noon work for you? I need my 7-9 a.m. hours for sleep. But most of the rest of my morning seems to be sort of moping around and waiting for motivation and such. 3-5 p.m. is about my most productive time.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

10 - noon is all right; I like lunch. It's not as good as early morning, but it'll do in a pinch.

I wake up with a full load of motivation. More than one might want, in fact: quite often it's my motivation to be doing something else that wakes me.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

It's my 1-3 AM I would like to get rid of, at least when I wake up then. If I'm sleeping I'm fine; if I'm still awake I'm fine (well, I suppose it would depend why I'm still awake). But if I wake up then it is too often obvious to me that I am ill with deadly diseases, or that I'm a total loser and about to be fired from my job. I've had to learn to look at the clock and say, well, I need to get that out of my head, and if it still seems like a problem in the morning, I'll worry about it then.

[redbird]

Sure, or would you rather have five to seven a.m.? At the moment, I'm spending those hours neither asleep nor usefully thoughtful or productive, and would be happy for them to be benefiting someone.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Before 6 a.m., I'm often a little woozy if I have to be up -- probably because I rarely go to bed before 10, and I'm one of those people who really benefits from a full amount of sleep.

[redbird]

It was worth a try.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Is your 3-5 pm a time when you could get a lot of busy-work done? Because I could /totally/ accept a non-cheerful-but-good-for-getting-paperwork-done 3-5, and you could have my periodic bouts of creativity which are wholely misplaced because I'm at work and not allowed to do things like that. Meanwhile, I could do with a 6-8 that doesn't involve waking up with burts of adrenaline 45 minutes before my alarm is due to go off. That could really work out well.

If you want a strong and utterly impractical desire to nap at 9 pm, I've got one of those available, too. Let me know.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Busywork, definitely. Yes. That's often what I end up doing with that time, busywork or errands.

Sadly, if I go to sleep at 9 p.m. in my own home, odds are good I'll be asleep until 4 a.m., then miserable thereafter. So I hope you find a better hope for your 9:00 nap urge.

[jebbypal]

You can take any of my time before 10 am....if I'm awake then, I'm pretty nonfunctional.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Most of my friends are. It makes some conventions a little weird, because I'm rarin' to go at 8:00, and sometimes I'm the only one.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

This Worldcon should be interesting for me then. I row. That means 8AM is *late* for me.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I've only been to two WorldCons, so I am certainly not the world's foremost expert on same. But in my experience, if you can find a place to park yourself with a book and/or a notebook -- something to do -- you may get time with people you wouldn't otherwise spend time with. Au Bon Pain was the magic place in Boston. I hope there's one in LA.

[redbird]

If we're ever at the same con, we should have breakfast together.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan to me!

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

3-5pm is good for me. How do you feel about 11pm-1am?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Lunchtime and just after? It can be all right; I can mostly be productive then.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Try reading that again. Unless you normally have your lunch around midnight?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heh. Oops. No, I'm usually sleeping peacefully in those hours.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Yay! Spanish Rice!

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

minsk! minsk minsk minsk!

[waits breathlessly for report]

[dendrophilous.livejournal.com]

Hm. I need the morning; it's the 10am-3pm I'd gladly trade.

[ckd]

I don't think my 6-8a or 7-9a would be much of a trade; those are generally my lowest energy, lowest mood parts of the day (assuming I'm awake).

For me, if I'm grumpy/down during the day it's time to eat something.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

"This in lieu of mopier content."

For some unknown reason I read this as Mopar content. Then I really wondered why you would talk about Chrysler cars and parts. It went then too You building a hot hot HOT Hemi and rolling up the streets in Eagan. Going further I thought a bitchen rad convert w/that HOT Hemi. Alas the rereading was much more prosaic.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Any time you expect that I will be talking about vehicles in any kind of detail, you will be disappointed. I'm just warning you. I consider "a little white one" to be a perfectly good answer to, "What kind of car do you drive?", though in deference to others' sensibilities I will actually specify "Saturn" most of the time.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, your 3-5 PM sounds about like mine. And if I traded a different two-hour chunk of my day to you for it, then I'd have *4 hours* of it instead of just the two. Still, you can have any two of my hours you want. I recommend 10 AM - 12 PM or 9-11 PM. That's good vintage.

I'm very sorry for the mopiness. Hope it passed at 5:01, or not too long after.