Metaplanar Babel

MSNBC - Early to bed, early to rise — it’s all in the genes

I found this story somewhat interesting. It makes me wonder, though, is there a gene that accounts for “night owl” patterns too? That seems to run in my family, to some extent, though I have mostly overcome it myself (my job starts at 6am, so I can’t really afford to stay up late anymore). Whenever I have more than a couple days off, though, I revert to staying up until 3-4am and sleeping until noon. I’ve never been able to decide if I just am that way or if it’s because I tend to keep myself awake past when I’m physically ready to sleep and then have to sleep later to compensate for the time lost, which then makes me stay up later again…and so on. Anyway, just an interesting little article.