I love my friends, most of them are artists, musicians, creatives or in the hospitality industry. Most I know won’t answer the phone if I call them before noon and I know not to call them for that specific reason unless it’s like life or death. Even then, they’re likely passed out on a pile of laundry, fully clothed or smoking cigarettes on their balcony until the wee hours of the morning and that’s well not when it’s socially acceptable to call (in the real world anyway). Before you think I don’t like you because you work in the daylight hours, we probably met in those other parts of life or at a bar or dance floor somewhere, you fall into that category, so don’t stress.
I’ve worked 9am to 5am, I’ve worked in offices, where I’ve had to cover my tattoos, wear a suit or even shoes for that matter. I fucking hated it! As I sit here writing this I am barefoot and that’s how I like to spend most of my days working. No shoes is the BEST!! OK moving on…
A large number of my clients are in the hospitality industry and often get a shock when it’s 10 or 11pm at night and I’m online. I know that they’ve finished service, logged on to do their end of night and I’m hoping maybe the number of emails I’ve bombarded them with has been answered.
Let the record state, that I have never been a morning person. I still am not and I find that in the morning my head is cloudy and I need good hour or so for my MS meds to kick in. If you call me at 9:01am I’ll likely look at the phone and let it go to voicemail. I’ll call you back once I’ve had a coffee, you’ll be glad that I did vs as soon as I’m up and not really coherent. If you call me at 11pm, I’ve no problems answering my phone but the other end of the spectrum, yeah nah.
The later in the day you book a meeting with me the better for you, I’ve likely had 2 or 3 coffees’s by then and I’m firing on all cylinders. I don’t book multiple meetings in a day anymore, as the ones I have are in depth and they require a lot of my brain power and energy. In the old ye days, I’d back up 3-4 meetings a day, x that with at least 1 coffee per meeting and a few cigarettes in there for good measure. If you ever got me towards those last meetings of the day, you would think by then I was fried, quite the contrary actually. It’s like something very special had happened in among those neurons and I swear that’s where some of best ideas arose. Don’t worry I still abuse caffeine and nicotine, so I’m good to give you what you too need 😉
There’s something pretty special about the late night/ early morning. If you’re an artist of any sort you’ll know what I’m talking about. You’ll have your own hour of the night or morning that belongs to you; mine is between 3 and 4am. Don’t think for a minute that I am lazy though, I know my clients are up and online during the day, my alarm is set for 8am and I’m up during the day too. It just means the bulk of actual “doing” doesn’t happen until most everyone goes to bed. Plus when was there ever a good decision made at 3am? Haha when you’re sober, there can be loads made!
It’s like everything is dead quite, calm and that the temperature drops too. It’s kind of eerie actually. My body loves and is most happiest when it’s around 16 degrees Celsius #mslyfe, and around that time of the morning that’s where it falls. It’s like at time of the morning alone, with my thoughts and by myself I can think clear and things that might not have come to me previously are there staring me in the face. That it all makes sense and that is when those “ah huh” ideas or moments seem to happen. The best is when you live somewhere where it snows, now that’s eerie and quite sounding!
While I take meetings in the day time, I much prefer to be up at night. I love to write when there is no one around and my phone seems to quieten down too. Don’t think that because I’ve told you now, my time to work de jour you can harass me. It just means that this is when I get to create and be at piece and am likely having those moments of either slight genius or madness.
My soul is much happier in the witching hours, I know a lot that happen to feel the same.. I guess that’s why we’re friends, those wild and crazy creative bastards! My advice? Stay up late one night, revisit the time of the morning you used to love.. I bet your heart and happy will be happy just for a little to revisit it, the rest of the week your sleep pattern will be out of whack and you’ll feel old lol, but totally worth it..
So what’s your favourite time of they day? I’d love to know..
Chrissy x