Have you ever been laying in bed at 3 AM, knowing that you have to get up at 9, but for some reason your brain won’t stop belting out Taylor Swift lyrics at full blast inside your head? How about in the morning, when you keep resetting your alarm clock (not hitting the snooze button, because for some reason that feels like cheating) and you start coming up with a myriad of excuses to get yourself out of work? (My favorite will always be having a friend call and tell your boss you are in jail for a DUI. I don’t know why this ever seems like a good idea, but I am not the only one who has does it.)
There are certain things that are not true at midnight that become cold, hard facts at 8 AM. Here are the top five: