Naps!
I dislike naps, and I’m sick of being in the minority about it. Everyone I know goes around touting the nap, singing its praises. I’m tired of it.
What’s to like about it? You lie down on the couch, time passes, and you are left groggy, sweaty, (I’m assuming everyone sweats as powerfully as I) and now it’s dark outside. Your entire day from that point on is completely messed up. Yet people continue in this practice.
I just sleep longer in the morning. Of course that’s not invulnerable to criticism, either. Getting up at eleven in the morning has negative connotations in the minds of those insufferable “morning people.” They’re so smug about it, too. “Are you just getting up now? I’ve already gone to work and come back home for lunch and given the dog a bath and renewed my passport and discovered a new prime number.”
Want to know what’s not so productive? An hour and a half of unconsciousness in the middle of the afternoon, that’s what. That’s when I’ll get my stuff done, such as stealing your wallet and taking your car to Wendy’s, Mr. Morning Person.
March 21st, 2009 at 11:46 am
Wha? You’re saying napping in the middle of the afternoon is unproductive?! Next you’ll be telling me tequila before noon is unproductive!
March 22nd, 2009 at 12:23 am
No, that’s fine, as long as it’s part of a complete breakfast.
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I have to say, I wholeheartedly agree with you about afternoon naps. The only time I take them is when I’m forced into my bed by an unsuspected migraine, the kind where I must knock myself out or be plagued by said headache for no less than 3 days.
A huge amen to the waking up feeling groggy and unproductive, naps never make me less tired, and what’s up with “power naps”? 20 minute naps are pointless – they’re for people who don’t really MEAN it. Although I don’t think I probably sweat as profusely as you.
I am, however, one of those said “morning people” you hate. Except on Saturdays. Wake me up before 9 on a Saturday and there’s hell to pay.
March 24th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
“Although I don’t think I probably sweat as profusely as you.”
Man, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that.
March 24th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
You’d be a rich, rich man?
March 25th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Yes, and with any luck, such a clause is in the stimulus bill. A “Kevin Sweat” clause, if you will.
I can dream.
=)