Morning Commute

[Hosakawa Tito]

Up at 4:30am. 30 minute jog, start coffee pot upon return then take quick shower while it brews. Fix a bowl of oatmeal/grits or toast & jam with my morning coffee while checking email etc... Brush me teeth, get on the uniform and drive 22 country miles to work at 6am. I consider it a good day at work when we all leave at the end of our shift upright & breathing, all the cons accounted for, our sanity mostly intact.

I'm a morning person and get up at the crack of dawn most every morning. 6am is sleeping in for me.

[Scienter]

Drag my out of bed at 6am. Blergh. The only thing that keeps me from being a homicidal maniac at 6am is my cute dog wagging his tail because he knows it's time for breakfast. Out the door a by a little after 7ish. Get to work around 8. I take public transportation so at least I get to read or do a crossword puzzle. By DC standards, my commute isn't bad, but that isn't saying much. I know some people who have a 1.5 - 2 hour commute each way. If I had to drive to work in DC traffic, I'd be in a padded cell somewhere.

[Noncommunist]

About 5 minutes from my fraternity house to the dining hall for breakfast which can take an hour if I want. Then about a 3 minute walk to the building where my class takes place.

[ajaxfetish]

Wake up at 8:00 and 40 minutes on the bus for me. Got a bus stop about 2 minutes walking distance from my front door, so it's pretty convenient. Usually spend the time running through lesson plans or translating Old English.

Ajax

[Major Robert Dump]

What gets me out of bed every morning is the lod speakers on the base:

ATTENTION ON THE FOB. THERE WILL BE A CONTROLLED DETONATION IN APPROXIMATELY **BOOM** 2 MINUTES

[Peasant Phill]

The alarm clock goes off 6:45. I go downstairs to get the cat (who's now meowing (?)), get back into bed with the cat until after the news of 7:00. Get ready for work, prepare my lunch and off I go at 7:30. It's a half hour bicycle ride to work.

[Viking]

The Oslo metro is lazy stuff. Though if you are unlucky, you'll end up on the same train as a band of beggars playing their instruments (guitar etc.); through which one will discover that the train wagons have quite decent acoustics. But this is rare, thankfully.

[Husar]

What gets me out of bed every morning is the lod speakers on the base:

ATTENTION ON THE FOB. THERE WILL BE A CONTROLLED DETONATION IN APPROXIMATELY **BOOM** 2 MINUTES

For me it depends a lot on the day, often there is no commute as there is nothing to commute to.
When I have uni in the morning, I usually get up at least two hours before I have to be there, then sleep 30 minutes longer anyway, try to read some stuff on the internet wasting even more time, shower somewhere in between, then either eat a quick breakfast or realize that I'll be 5-10 mins late even if I don't. The university, or most of it, is only two stops of the subway away and the station is a block away from my home. If I have to get to the computer sciences building I usually need about 10 mins longer as it's further away and not on the main campus.

Well, if it's something important I'm usually faster, or get up earlier.

[Andres]

6.45 am : an alarm goes off, get kiss from wife, grumble a bit because it's too early, go back to sleep.
7.15 am : second alarm goes off, say something like "bloody nazis" or complain about the injustice of it all, drag myself out of bed, shower, get dressed, quick breakfeast with wife;
7.35 am : wake up son; give son milk, take off his pyjamas, change his diaper, smear in his sensitive skin with bodymilk, put on clothes, jealous because son never fails to have a good hair day while my hair is only manageable if not longer than 5 mm;
8.00 am: wife kisses goodbye and leaves for work; dad goes downstairs for a cup of coffee and his morning chat with his son (lots of "blahblahblah", nothing of it makes sense, he should go into politics)
8.10 am: play a bit with son;
8.35 am: leave the house, drive with car to day care;
8.45 am: drop off son, chat a bit with the people from the day care;
8.50 am: leave, drive to work;
9.00 am: arrive at work.