By The Way...

Thursday, March 29, 2007
6:50:00 PM EDT
Hearing Takin' it to the Streets -- Doobie Brothers


Time keeps on ticking into the future, as the great moral philosopher Steve Miller once observed -- and yet there's always some time in the day which we enjoy more than others. Which brings us to this week's Weekend Assignment:

Weekend Assignment #158: What's your favorite time of day and why? It doesn't have to be a specific hour and minute, mind you: "early morning" or "after midnight" or "sunset" works just fine, too. Although if you do have a very specific time, by all means note it.

Extra Credit: What's the longest you've ever stayed awake?

As you might expect from the picture above, my favorite time of the day is 12:34, because I'm a big fat geek and the numerical sequence appeals to me (I also like 1:23, 2:34, 3:45 and 4:56, too -- although not 3:21, 4:32, 5:43 and so on. Go figure). I also find that whether intentionally or not, I'm almost always looking at the clock at 12:34; I think there's some sort of internal alarm in my head at gets to to find a time piece, note the time, and go on with my day.

Having put it that way, it sounds vaguely obsessive, but there it is. This, I think, part and parcel with my ability to wake myself up almost exactly when I need to; if I need to wake up at 7:15, for example, I almost always do, without the need for the alarm clock (sometimes it fails, which is why I keep an alarm clock. I'm human). By the same token, some part of my brain always knows when it's 12:34. I wonder if it works when I switch time zones. I'll have to check.

Longest time awake: Four days in my senior year of high school. By the end of it I was definitely hallucinating. I imagine if I tried to do it now it would kill me. Thus: Not doing it again.

Time for you to reveal your favorite time of day, and why. write it up in your own blog or journal, and then come back here to leave a link! I'm looking forward to spending the time to read these entries.


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• #15 Comment from plittle 
  4/2/07 12:17 AM | Permalink

  11:23:58
  http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/entries/2007/04/01/weekend-assignment/2337
  -Paul
• #14 Comment from nomartians 
  4/1/07 6:35 PM | Permalink

  Ok, trying it again, don't know why it didn't show up as a link before.
  http://journals.aol.com/nomartians/its-all-about-me/
  Think it is STILL not working. *sigh* Guess you will have to copy and paste.
  HOLLY
  
• #13 Comment from nomartians 
  4/1/07 6:33 PM | Permalink

  Hi John,
  Here's mine:http://journals.aol.com/nomartians/its-all-about-me/entries/2007/04/01/weekend-assignment-favorite-time-of-day/1025
  HOLLY
• #12 Comment from anaedream 
  3/31/07 10:30 AM | Permalink

  Here's mine! :)
  
  http://anaedream.com/2007/03/31/weekend-assignment-158-your-favorite-time-of-day/
  
  Have a great blogfree weekend, although I'm betting you post, somewhere.
  
  ;)
  
  Kate
  
  
• #11 Comment from nicurnmama 
  3/31/07 6:03 AM | Permalink

  here i am at 3:02 AM supposed to be at work but instead working on the weekend assignment.
  have a good weekend!
  http://adventuresinjuggling.blogspot.com/2007/03/weekend-assignement-158-in-wee-small.html
  laura

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