Back To The Watchers Connection
Story by: Lucilla Phoenix Reporter
Ugh…waking up in the morning, the worst time of the day. Especially when you have to wake up at 6:00am for school. Well, at least I wake up at 6:00am, some I know get up earlier. And of course school starts at 7:20am, so everyone’s still half sleeping. And, my luck, I have gym first hour. But school is almost over so I’ll be free of gym class in first hour. YEAH!!
But let’s get to the point of this whole story, is 7:20am too early for school? Hell yeah it is. My gosh, I’m not even fully awake until we actually get out of school. And that’s sad. I remember back when I was in elementary school and I woke up at like 8:15am, those were the days!! I miss those days. *sniffle* Now, I would kill to get to sleep that long. *laugh* And do you remember how energetic we used to be in elementary school? Those days are over. I mean, my 5 and 6 year old cousins are like, “Lucilla lets play outside!!” and I’m like, “Leave me alone, I’m tired.” Then they are like, “But Lucilla, it’s 5:00pm.” And I say, “Wow, that late, I better get to sleep.” We have like zero energy.
It’s been proven by some big college out there somewhere *laugh* that kids that start school at like 9:00am do better in school and have better attendance than a school (like ours) that starts at 7:20am. So, I have been told by Yves. So, if I’m wrong, go after her, not me. *laugh* Well, I think I have said all that needs to be said. So the Taylortucky High School should open at 9:00am. Then the world would be a better place. Well, not really. *laugh* But it’s nice to dream.
George Carlin: People say, “I’m going to sleep now,” as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. “For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.”
If you didn’t know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you’d seen.
“They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the ‘mind adventures’ got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad that they weren’t unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.”
So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe that you’re in a science fiction movie. And whisper, “The creature is regenerating itself.”