...and don't panic! The Know brings you advice during housing
A true friend is always there for you, especially when you're drunk.
Miss Quit regresses to her childhood this week as the prospect of beginning the "University of Life" looms.
Being a humanities student, I naturally enjoy my fair share of lie-ins. More than my fair share, some might say. In fact, I can happily admit to spending a third of my degree horizontal and unconscious. Whilst I would normally make no apologies for this, just lately it seems that increasing amounts of deadlines, obligations and social events require me to be vertical more of the time. So, like the dedicated journalist that I am (ahem), I have risen to the challenge. Literally.
Not allowing my hand to hit the snooze button, hauling tired limbs out into my cold room and resisting the urge to slip back into the womb-like safety of my duvet, took a great deal of self-motivation. The amount of injuries I sustained from blindly feeling my way to the bathroom are too numerous to list. On one occasion, in spectacular Charlie Chaplin-esque fashion, I ended up spread-eagled on the floor in nothing more than a towel, after having slipped on residues of bathwater left by one of my scientist (therefore early-rising) roomies. Wet, bruised, and less than coherent, it was not exactly the best start to the day.
So I think I can safely say that mornings are not my thing. Yet, I don’t believe that it's due to a simple matter of laziness. In fact, after some research, as well as the mandatory chat with friends, I suggest its a more complicated issue. Gender plays a big part.
You see, a man just doesn’t seem to have the same relationship with their bed as a woman does. Whilst most girls could happily conduct every part of their daily business from between the sheets, guys, when not engaged in the obvious mattress activity, spend time there only when comatose.
I recently read an article about insomnia in one of the many health magazines that my mother seems to accumulate for no real reason (the apple didn’t fall far from that tree…), which claimed that women are far more likely to suffer from lack of shut-eye than men.
This does not surprise me in the least. From past experience, lying there fully awake whilst my significant other has been snoring away from the moment his head hit the pillow, is stereotypically common. No wonder we don’t want to get up in the mornings.
If you happen to be female then a lie-in is so much more than a guilty pleasure. No matter how early you might climb into bed, easy sleep is never guaranteed. Even when your body and mind are close to collapse. The extra reclining time in the morning is the reward for the hard work of switching off at night. Of course, there are plenty of reasons for a male to stay in bed that extra bit longer, too. Hangovers seem to top the list.
Whatever your gender, downtime is not something to compromise on. Beauty sleep is essential, after all. In light of this, I refuse to feel guilty about waking up at the crack of noon every other Sunday. So long as I balance it out during the week, and it keeps me happy, whats the harm? I for one shan’t be leaving the warm safety of my bed for the sake of an extra hour. There are some things in life you just shouldn’t fight.
And so, with that said, it's off to bed with me….
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