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Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 05-26-2002, 03:50 PM:

Okay, folks. Counter thread. I'm a morning person. Guess it comes from the 31 years I taught High school. I just can't sleep past 6:00AM. Put in a long day when Star Wars opened (including midnight show) and was still up early.

Actually, I find this a benefit. I leave the late runs to the young turks, for the most part. I like to get in early while the place is quiet, and I get a ton of work done- mainly maintenance and recordkeeping. No phones ringing and no people to bother me. My least productive time starts around noon.

I'll generally work a busy Friday or Saturday night and let one of the operators close. Still love those mornings for productivity.

Anyone on this side of the fence?

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-26-2002, 04:04 PM:

What I usually like best about the mornings is that I am asleep!

Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 05-26-2002, 04:15 PM:

I'm with Joe. The morning is sleepy time. My most productive hours are between eleven pm and three am. But thats learned from 4 years of architecture school and has carried over.

Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 05-26-2002, 05:35 PM:

Going out for a run before the sun is up is pretty cool, I've done it a few times, but I dont think I would make a habbit out of it.

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 05-26-2002, 06:50 PM:

COFFEE

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 05-26-2002, 07:47 PM:

I love sitting outside on my deck at my hillside house at dawn and watching the sun rise over Hollywood. It always inspires me and reminds me of how lucky I am.

I feel the same way watching the sunsets.

>>> Phil

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-26-2002, 09:04 PM:

Please share your tip John. For me the later in the day, the more productive I am. If I am working on something before noon, you can bet it will take me twice as long to get the task completed. If I start in the evening or even after midnight, I'll have it done with incredible speed. I just focus better after I've been awake to the world for awhile. So what's that tip you have?

Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 05-26-2002, 09:56 PM:

I agree that morning is the best time of day. Only problem is: I am usually too sleepy to enjoy it. I would bet most people who are projectionists are the same since staying up late is a requirement for the job.

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 05-27-2002, 12:29 AM:

Shower.....Stand in it until the water gets cold. Then Coffee and more coffee...

Mornings are totally useless to me. I don't even like doing anything until the clock strikes noon. But then again, it is my own fault. I don't get to sleep until sometimes 0200 in the morning because I am sitting in front of this damn computer.

I am a night person.

Posted by Adam Fraser (Member # 1074) on 05-27-2002, 01:14 AM:

Mornings start at 11:00 AM right?

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-27-2002, 03:18 AM:

I am another night person and am like Brad in that respect. Can't do anything productive before noon, but can stay up until 4:30 or so and just keep going. (Drives my wife nuts.)

Posted by Robert Golding (Member # 746) on 05-27-2002, 04:38 AM:

I must say nights are much much better. I do my best of anything between 3 p.m. and 3 a.m. I would believe most theatre people, the ones who really work at them, have a tendency to be night owls.

Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 05-27-2002, 12:36 PM:

"Not a morning person" only scratches the surface!

Sunrise = my bedtime!

Heh, and when I wake up, I tend to be in full "zombie-mode", and remain that way for up to 4 hours! And in general, I am more productive after sunset. I practically keep vampire hours.

Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 05-27-2002, 04:31 PM:

Brad:

I don't really have a tip. You are either a morning person, or you're not. I think my biological clock set itself many years ago when the High School I was teaching at went to double sessions. Since I was a coach, I was always assigned to the morning session, which ment I had to be in at 6:30AM with my first class at 7:00. Even after double sessions ended, the school day started at 7:30AM, so I've always been an early riser. When I was younger, I worked several nights each week as a relief projectionist/manager as well.

Now that I'm retired from teaching and working at the theater full-time, the early riser habit just stayed with me. Since I do the operator schedules, I usually work the matinees and stay away from the late night work for the most part. However, I do occasionally pay a surprise late night visit, just to make sure everything is running okay.

I can appreciate night owls. I was one when I worked the summer houses (again, many years ago). I have a couple of night owls who work for me and they do a great job, especially on those godawful nights that we have late shows.

Posted by James Morton (Member # 1299) on 05-27-2002, 06:54 PM:

Sitting down in lectures (cold damp and exhausted... see 'what do you hate most about mornings?' thread for details) and having one person say that they enjoyed the film I projected the night before.

Makes it all seem worthwhile somehow...

Posted by Peter Kerchinsky (Member # 1098) on 05-28-2002, 04:26 AM:

It took me a long time to find out there were two (count em 2) 11's in the day.
Good night all.

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-28-2002, 06:59 AM:

Now I know there have to be others out there like me. I very rarely sleep more that three hours in any day. If I didn't have to work I would sleep those hours in the afternoon as that is when I enjoy the rest best. However I usually hit the sack about 1 0r 1:30 and I am wide awake at four AM or earlier.

I do most of my reading in the early hours and like to take a power walk before breakfast which I do along the East River in NYC. I walk from 63rd Street to 96th Street and back each morning. If I am at my house in Newport, Road Island you will find me walking around the harbor.

Like Phil, I enjoy the Sunrise and the sunsets. Of Course in the evenings I enjoy a Martini and great conversation with my wife. I know it's hard for anyone who knows me to believe but like Gordon I need that coffee in the morning.

Posted by Christopher Duvall (Member # 284) on 05-28-2002, 01:23 PM:

Are you guys saying that there is a 7am through a 11am? I did not know that. I always thought the day started at 12noon.

Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 05-28-2002, 06:51 PM:

I really enjoy mornings. I have to be at most audits at about 8:00am, and some at 7:00am - so I may end up waking up at 4:30 - get dressed and hit the road and drive for a couple hours and show up at some theatre at 7:00am to call and wake up the General Manager.

I really enjoy the mornings - it is true. But I still can't bring myself to go to bed before 2:00am. I'm hardwired to be a late nighter so I have to take naps or else I'd be dead already.

Posted by Jacob Huber (Member # 1138) on 05-28-2002, 08:54 PM:

Ever since Star Wars opened, the early proj. has to be at the theatre by about 8:30, while the other comes in at about 9:45. Both work until 6:00. This turns out to be a real mess working stay late (last Star Wars gets out at 1:30), then going to play poker with friends until about 4:30, then working the early shift (waking up at 7:30). Over the weekend, I can expect to get about 5-7 hours of sleep total. Days off are usually spent catching up on the sleep I missed over the weekend.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 05-29-2002, 01:48 PM:

I'm usually up at 5:30am and at work by 7:00. Depending on how much e-mail, meetings, and Internet activity, usually "brown bag" lunch at my keyboard, then leave for home around 5:00, sometimes 5:30. Have gotten to like the P&Q of early mornings, when there are fewer distractions. I try to keep up with Film-Tech on nights and weekends too.

When I worked the drive-in, mid-summer showings started well after 9:00pm, with the main feature/intermission/second feature/exit time/main feature sequence making for a long night, sometimes closing up with the eastern horizon getting light. We even had a few "dusk-to-dawn" programs with five features. I found the P&Q of the after-midnight hours was just as enjoyable (except for the occasional encounters with raccoons or rats munching on food thrown from the cars).

When I travel, I find my body clock adjusts to time changes quickly.

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Posted by Brad Haven (Member # 954) on 05-30-2002, 10:58 PM:

The best thing about waking up in the morning is, realizing your on night shift and rolling over and going back to sleep, there is nothing more satisfying!.
Being a projectionist, being late for work just isn't an option, so i've learnt to use cold showers , good coffee and the occasional slap on the face/head to get me to work on time. I always give myself an hour at home to wake up before i leave for work and then if needed i've got the coffee machine at work blow the morning fog away!.
Loving your job certainly makes it easier to wake up, in my old career i always found it hard to get motivated to wake up for a job that i grew to hate!.