When I was at Emerson, there was a period of time when I hosted a morning radio show on WERS called The Coffeehouse. It was pretty awesome - acoustic music, indie rock, some hippy music for the population that can't get enough hippy music. Those folks, by the way, aren't as docile as you'd imagine. They WANT to hear folk from the early 1970s and they're vocal about it. Anyway, it was a morning show in Boston and it started at 6am so I'd take the first blue line train from Winthrop, dodge the staggery AM crackheads, and make it to the studio by 5:40 or so. There was something alternately exhilarating and terrifying about this - being the first person to open up the station, being generally alone there with all that big equipment until 8am or so. But as scary as that was, I loved the independence of it.
This week, I've opted to start taking on opening shifts at Healthworks (the nice ladies gym for nice ladies- I'm pitching the slogan), and it's much the same feeling. There's a lot less stress involved as there are virtually no aging flower children berating me over the phone for playing too much Morrissey, but the excitement of being the first person up is still fresh. Three days in a row I've been Dunkin Donuts' first customer -- beaten on Monday by a shifty construction worker who left his car door open blasting JAMN 94.5. Never again, shifty. I'm first.
In this interim time, where I'm kind of filling in the employment blanks, I'm really excited that I've rediscovered the part of me that thinks sleeping 'till seven is for suckers. YEAH YOU HEARD ME. Just kidding. But I'm hoping that I can keep this motivation for early living going, maybe utilizing it for writing when there's a day when there's no sauna to turn on or Joni Mitchell to play.
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4 comments:
i love this. in the past 4 months, i woke up before dawn at least 4 days a week to exercise and it has been oddly amazing, seeing sunrises, having the most productive mornings for hours before ross even wakes up. in germany, we still have no idea what time it is (somewhere around 8 pm here as i write) but i look forward to waking up early again and love that you will be too. health works, right? ;) and i need to see you when i get back ASAf'inP. love you!
This is an impessive turn of mentality, considering you used to look at me like I had two heads when I went in to work for 7:45. I told you the early morning thing was awesome. :-P
I'm pretty sure I listened to you during Coffee House. My best friend Genevieve and I listened every morning from... geez... 2000-2005? A lot of times it was during the summer. We would drive to work together and sit in the car extra long to let that song finish.
I still wake up every morning at Coffeehouse time to play Coffeehouse type music. It is still thrilling to be the first person up. People think you're nuts, but when you're done with the day at 1 pm- they can suck on their 9 to 5's. Plus I get to play Kate Bush before the sun comes up.
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