I'm not twenty-three anymore.

[snugglekitty]

I can remember when two o'clock was just the beginning of the night. The club is closing, time to go out for food, go skinnydipping, go home and have sex...

Those days are gone. I went to a party last night and I was both home and in bed before two, and I am so incredibly groggy now.

Partly, my ability to sleep in is not what it once was. Also, my regular sleep schedule is very different now from what it used to be - it's easy to sleep till eleven when you never have to be at work before two in the afternoon. But also, my body is maybe more aware of its limits. Or I'm listening more. Or maybe the limits are a bit smaller than they were. Not quite sure.

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[dilletante.livejournal.com]

i remember reading characters in stories grumbling about this, when i was a kid; so in the past few years, when late nights made me groggy, i wondered "am i getting old? am i slowing down?"

but i also remember how much the day after an all-nighter sucked in college. i hated how i felt the next day. it wasn't that it didn't affect me; it was that i was stupid enough to do it anyway.

so i can console myself that i'm not any less stupid now; it's just my schedule is more constrained. ;)

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

Yeah, even in college i was pretty much a wreck later if i stayed up most of the night... but the schedule was more forgiving of it :)