I’ve been struggling to get into a routine. I haven’t needed to set an alarm for when to be up in the morning for almost a full year now, so, naturally, I don’t usually end up waking up until it’s nearly noon. Likewise, I don’t usually get to sleep until after midnight, so it balances out a little, but still. Couple that with the fact that every time my girlfriend, who has nearly polar opposite sleeping habits from mine (in the sense that I at least have some), comes to visit me from out of town (which is just about every weekend), any sleeping and waking routine I do begin to establish throughout the week is instantly abandoned. I very much enjoy having her over each and every time, but the short era that existed between us meeting and me figuring out that I didn’t have to wait for her to wake up before I could as well was a puzzling time for me (in case it isn’t obvious, I’m still figuring out how this whole relationship thing works).

Ideally, what I’d like is to be up when people normally get up. During the week, I wake up briefly to the sound of my roommates getting ready to head to work, but it isn’t until another REM cycle or two come and go before I’m finally good to get up myself. Setting an alarm almost never works unless I need to be up for something related to “responsibilities” or some such thing, ’cause if I wake up for even a moment before it goes off, I will do so utterly convinced that the wise decision to make at that time is to switch my alarm off before it goes off. Every. Goddamn. Time.

And then, by the time I am up, showered and fed, it’s basically noon, and well, I probably haven’t checked facebook yet. Shouldn’t take long. Naturally, it’s takes up the majority of all my free time for the day. I almost never have fewer than 7 or 8 tabs open at any given time, and if I do, I quickly replenish my browser with as many new ones as the more interesting posts on my facebook newsfeed so generously provide. I read constantly. Not a bad thing in and of itself, but if my ambition is to become a writer, I need to allocate at least some of the time spent reading towards writing instead. Therein lies my greatest dilemma as of late, hence this blog. No more excuses. Between here, Wattpad and my own documents, there’s no excuse for not getting at least a little bit of writing accomplished each and every day, starting yesterday.