I am not a morning person. I have never really been a morning person. And while I can’t sleep until noon anymore, sleeping until 9:00 am or so on a free day is a possibility. That’s what makes my mornings here so difficult. In order to get to work when it is expected I have to catch a train at 6:45 am. That reminds me of the 6:15 am bus ride in High School (usually barefoot in the snow …). I have to walk to the subway station (about 5 brisk minutes), catch the 6:45 am train two stops to Nagoya Station, transfer to the Meitetsu train line by walking about 4 minutes to the 6:53 am train. I take that 3 express stops to my next station, transfer to a spur train (about a 5 minute wait) at 7:10 am, go the entire one stop length of the train line, and walk 7 minutes to the office. That results in about 16 minutes of walking every morning and every night. If I miss the 6:45 train, that results in a later Meitetsu train and a later spur train. And significantly larger crowds so I am kind of stuck.
Every morning I am startled awake at 6:00 am and immediately know I am running late. I’ve even started arranging all my things the night before. Funny! This morning I thought I was doing OK and then I looked at my watch and realized, “TIME TO HURRY!!!†That happens every morning.
The train is a little helpful though. It forces me to get up and get going. I KNOW if I had a car I’d find 100 ways to distract myself and just keep getting in later and later. Also, honestly, it is nice to have some definite deadlines for the return trip. The last spur train departs at 8:47 pm. I have taken that more times than I planned.
I’m really tired tonight. So that’s all!