Hatrack River Forum: Are you doing what I do?

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Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

I just installed OS X 10.4 (no, I'm not talking about that, with the 'doing'.) and am playing with my widgets. (Also not taking about playing with widgets. Or onanism. I know you thought it.)

So now I've got this cool row of clocks for various places around the world. I'll never mis-schedule an ILM interview again (this also, is not the point of the thread).

However, I just noticed that for most of you, it's somewhere between 8am and 5am at the moment.

So for those crazy US jatraqueros who are posting right now.... are you crazy? It's early. I don't even talk to real people before 9am, let alone non-real (well, obviously, to most of you, I'm the non-real one, having never been in the same place as two 'confirmed' jatraqueros at the same time.) people.

So. (And this, finally, is what I'm getting to.) Are you having breakfast or what? Just chillin' out over some toast and (probably not) vegemite, checkin' out the 'rack and toying with the demented ravings of a very tired Aussie, late on his Friday night?

What are *you* doing now?

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

It's called "jetlag" and "work." [Razz]

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

I'm... uh... working. Yeap, that's it, I'm working; it's 2:43PM in France. Where are *you* from, Troubadour? Oh, I just checked your profile, and it says Australia. So, what time is it there?

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

I'm at work. I work from 8 AM to 4:30 PM. It's about ten to nine here now.

Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

11pm Friday.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

I work from 7AM to 5PM.

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

I'm eating breakfast. What's the use of being an academic if you can't show up for work at 1030 with never an eyebrow raised?

Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

See I work from 10am to 7/8pm.... I'm a night person.

Plus I live less than five minutes drive from work with a dress-code where provided you wear jeans, it's good enough. I fall out of bed late, unless I'm riding, and just rock on up....

KoM - possibly the *only* thing I've ever agreed with you upon.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

quote:
I'll never mis-schedule an ILM interview again (this also, is not the point of the thread).

I sense a story here...

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

To chime in with the other early-risers, I teach a class that meets from 8 AM until 9:20. Thus, I'm usually up at 5:30, out the door by 6:45, and at school at 7 to prepare for teaching.

Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :

It's 1:35 am here in the West now. So 3:35 am for you.... where are you?!

[Razz]

Actually, when I spent a year in Qld I noticed a marked difference in Hatrack traffic. As much as people get up insanely early in the US, it's better to be over here for the cross-over in time-zones. Reasonable morning here manages to catch evening in a lot of the US.

Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :

Do people in the US generally wake up earlier than people in Australia? I try to be at work around 8:15 or so, so my alarm goes off around 6:30 so I have time to get ready. Seems pretty standard....?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

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Originally posted by ketchupqueen:

quote:
I'll never mis-schedule an ILM interview again (this also, is not the point of the thread).
I sense a story here...

Pretty sure there he started a thread about it . . . Yep.

Some of us are addicted enough that we have gotten into the habit of checking Hatrack in the morning before heading to work. Then again, I took today off to get my mouth scraped (loads of fun) and run errands . . .

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I like morning Hatracking, but haven't gotten a chance lately.

One of the funniest things I like to follow is traffic at Galactic Cactus, where a marked percentage of the users are in the same time zone as me. It's almost deathly silent there after 5 pm, while I work until 6. It picks up again at night, I think, but I'm rarely around for that.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

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It picks up again at night, I think, but I'm rarely around for that.

Yeah, but that's primarily me catching up on the day's threads. [Wink]

Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

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Do people in the US generally wake up earlier than people in Australia?

Nope. I've just got a job where you don't have to start until ten, where I live five minutes away and where wearing jeans and a T is the norm, so minimal preparation is needed. I prefer to stay back late rather than get in early, so I do all my prep the day before.

quote:
Pretty sure there he started a thread about it . . .

Rivka, you are scary cool..... [Big Grin]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*curious* Because I remembered the thread, or because I found it?

Or because I added an extraneous word for no apparent reason? [Wink]

Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

Definitely the memory thing, which is particularly cool to me, as my brain as late seems to have come to resemble a..... er.... round metal thing...... with holes in it.....

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

I find myself getting up at totally reasonable hours. o_O

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

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Definitely the memory thing, which is particularly cool to me, as my brain as late seems to have come to resemble a..... er.... round metal thing...... with holes in it.....

*giggle* So does mine. However, I'm highly visual, which means I'm far more likely to remember a thread than a IRL conversation.

Also, I noticed the thread initially because it was about SoCal.

Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

Ah....

Still.

Freaky. Cool.

[Wink]