{"id":1627,"date":"2010-01-24T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2010-01-23T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T08:35:44","slug":"finding-peace-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=1627","title":{"rendered":"Finding Peace in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we’ve been back (12 days now), I’ve found it very difficult to adjust to this time zone, falling asleep at as early as 7 p.m.. I seem to have settled into a time zone all of my own, now, where I’m wide awake at 4 a.m. and absolutely fall out<\/b> at 9 p.m. That’s only 7 hours of sleep, but my body just doesn’t seem to need it, nor want it.<\/p>\n

\"Lynedoch<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m going to keep it this way<\/b>. The absolute best time to get anything done in Glasgow, as far as studying, is after about 3:30 a.m., when all of the pub-goers have finished their stumbles home. The city is then absolutely silent until around 5 a.m., when the first delivery trucks begin to rumble by. That’s about the only noise there is until around 7 a.m., when the vehicle traffic picks up enough to be noticeable. That’s the ideal time for a shower<\/del> cat-lick bath<\/i> anyway (yes, our boiler’s still out; no, we have no heating or hot water; we are considering breaking the lease). So, getting up at 4 and working ’til 7 gives me 3 solid hours of writing, with peace, no demands, nothing else to do except get up for a cup of tea.<\/p>\n

The truly wonderful thing about this is that I’m giving my best time to my studies, rather than trying to squeeze studying in at the end of the day, when I’m tired. In the morning, I don’t check email, I don’t look at blogs, I don’t tinker with photographs: I just write. It’s … fabulous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since we’ve been back (12 days now), I’ve found it very difficult to adjust to this time zone, falling asleep at as early as 7 p.m.. I seem to have settled into a time zone all of my own, now, where I’m wide awake at 4 a.m. and absolutely fall out at 9 p.m. That’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glasgow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}