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

to give a talk to a meeting in Italy. (I was told about this yesterday. Somebody left me off a cc list for the agenda last week, or I would have objected.) In fact I was up at 0500, since my talk was at 0600. I am a grad student and not a creature of the early morning. Urgh. [Frown]

In fact, I appear to be the only person in the building. [Grumble]

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

It's like slice of life James Bond. Between the beautiful women and the car chases, there's probably a lot of waking up early and waiting for stuff to happen.

Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :

Trust me, if you ever leave academia and enter the the mainstream working world, it gets worse. You can claim expenses though...

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Your own fault. If you did your job and invented a time machine, you coulda woke up at 1100 and given your talk at 0600.

Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :

Even better, invent a cloning machine and have your clone get up at 6 while you get lunch in bed from a sexy Italian hostess.

Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :

Those are all silly ideas. A much more practical idea is to get your hands on a Transmogrifier gun, and then just transmogrify into a "creature of the mornning," whatever that may be.

Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :

You could use a Time-Turner and go back to 6:00, but with that you have to live two days in one. I would think you would be twice as tired at the end of the day.

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

quote:
Originally posted by MightyCow:
Even better, invent a cloning machine and have your clone get up at 6 while you get lunch in bed from a sexy Italian hostess.

How am I going to force my clone to do all the hard work?

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

Trick him...it will be easy. He isn't all that bright.....

[Wink]

Posted by Threads (Member # 10863) on :

You wouldn't have had to wake up if you didn't go to bed.

Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Kwea:
Trick him...it will be easy. He isn't all that bright.....

Harsh...