The way people say: The 26 Greatest Joys And Struggles Of Being A Late-Night Person

1. Growing up, you were the last to fall asleep ______.2. And now, you’re ______ for hours after your significant other has fallen

asleep next to you.3. You have friends in other timezones ______ company when everyone

around you is fast asleep.4. You ______ emails to send later so your boss (and colleagues, and

professors, and friends, and parents) won’t judge you for working at 4 a.m.

5. You work all day, but don’t really get ______ until you’re alone in the dead of night.

6. If you have roommates, you spend your prime working hours ______ and typing as quietly as possible.

7. You know every ______ store and restaurant in your neighborhood.8. And the late-night food delivery men know you ______.9. Getting in bed early doesn’t mean getting more sleep. It means angrily

______ for a few hours.10. People constantly ask you why you’re ______ so late, and you don’t know

what to say.11. Also: “Do you ______ sleep?”12. And: “Wow, you’re ______ a vampire.”13. Your friends are always tired and ready to go home when you’re just

starting to ______.14. But if they ever make early plans, you’re definitely the last to ______.15. Seriously. Everything about waking up in the morning ______. Fuck alarms

and sunrise and birds chirping.16. People are always giving you ______advice on how to fall asleep earlier.17. Your parents have always been ______about not sleeping enough.18. And, over the years, you’ve ______ways to hide it from them.19. You ______your best ideas at night.20. And wake up to a ______ comprehensible notes and self-emails to remind

yourself of them.21. You’ve seen (and ______) a lot of sunrises.22. Waking up early for school/work means you almost never ______four

hours of sleep during the week.23. But you make sure to ______on it by sleeping 12-plus hours on the

weekend.24. Your special skills include: ______terrible TV shows…25. ______ silently in bed…26. And mindlessly ______ Reddit/Tumblr/Twitter for hours.27. Of course, you’re totally and completely useless in the morning, and need

______coffee to get through the day.28. But it’s all worth it for your hours of peace and ______in the dark…29. Hidden away from the world, and all of its ______ diurnal people.

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