0259. This is the time every night when I realise that I am very much screwed for the next day. It is the time when I realise there isn't enough time to sleep, but I can't not sleep anyway, because there is nothing to do for the next 3 hours, and I fear I will faint from fatigue or something. It is the time that when I sleep, I will wake up feeling more tired than if I hadn't slept.
Sounds familiar? Well, you haven't experienced the 0259, there is an expression in french for people like you. "Vous couchez comme les poules!" In other words, you go to bed like the chickens. You sleep ridiculously early at like 9pm, and you wake up at 5am to piss the whole neighbourhood off with your lovely voice. Especially if you're the kind who sings in the toilet, and you have a voice resembling chickens being slaughtered.
But after 3 nights on the 0259, you long for a ticket on the midnight train.
On a separate note, there is this phrase in the song Lady Marmalade from Moulin Rouge that goes "Voulez vous couchez avec moi ce soir?" I would advise you not to sing it in public on a French street. What it really means is, "Would you like to sleep with me tonight?" And I don't mean the kind of sleep where you get any real sleeping done. Now this is the part where you go "Just what the f--- have I been singing?"
A few months back, a friend told me that it was healthy to sleep at 9pm, and advised me to do it. The irony is, in the ensuing months, I have realised that she is the very same person who wakes up late for school and subsequently doesn't turn up. It really reminds me of this phrase that I consider a great pearl of wisdom.
"Take my advice. I don't use it."
Does anyone realise that good advice is seldom taken. I find that happens a lot. Sometimes when I give people advice I know they won't take, I feel like just not caring, and not saying it because it will fall on deaf ears anyway. I mean, it's pretty pointless telling a smoker not to smoke, just as it is telling someone who habitually sleeps late to sleep early.
"I said please don't slow me down, if I'm going too fast"
The greatest irony is, the people preaching advice seldom use it themselves. "You should sleep early you know, because there is 830 tmw." I always say that to my friends, and I end up looking at the clock and going holy shit its 0259.
"Yeah, the night's not over, you're not trying hard enough"
And then the fatigue gets to you.
"You're no longer laughing. I'm not drowning fast enough."