October 11 - Octopus Blog a Day
The first thing you see in the morning
It depends.
If I wake up from my alarm on my cell phone, the first thing I see is the cell phone. That's because, first of all I shut off the alarm, and then I check the time to make sure I didn't oversleep the alarm and wake up on the third or fourth "snooze alarm".
If I wake up on my own in the middle of the night, the first thing I look at is my window shades. I check them because, if there's no light coming in I figure it's still way before sunrise and I may as well try to go back to sleep; but if I see light, even dim light, streaming through the gaps in the shades, I figure the sun's coming up and I might as well get up because the alarm's gonna go off pretty soon anyway.
