late nights and caffeine

Off-topic and all, I'm sorry I missed the original post on this. Getting up in the morning is a running joke with my friends and I... I do just fine as a morning person, if I don't go to bed the night before. Otherwise, if some pressing need has me getting up inhumanely early, I keep a caffeine pill and cup of coffee next to my bed at night. When the alarm rings, I pop the pill and chug-a-lug the tumbler of coffee. The caffeine jolt, combined with the horrific taste of stale coffee, usually gets me up within a half hour or so. I wonder what my morning routine would be like if amphetamines were reasonably safe and legal... My other (not always successful) plan is to turn on the shower and drag myself in, promptly sitting on the floor and falling asleep. After a half-hour or so, the water usually gets cold enough to wake me up. Although, I have probably brought myself close to hypothermia a few times when it doesn't... I have learned to *never* try sitting on the toilet first thing on a tired morning. I've lost many hours and had to massage out many a forehead red-mark from that particularly uncomfortable kind of sleep. On a fairly early morning (good caffeine buzz), Aaron On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Mike Ford wrote: