OK to be honest I don't remember that fixture at all.
Yeah I like some Duh Time as I call it first thing in the morning. It's interesting how my schedule changes with the seasons. In the dead of winter here it doesn't get light until about 8AM in December and January and is pitch black by 5PM. Despite this, I often find myself getting up at 5AM, avoiding my grumpy before ingesting his first cup of coffee dad, and firing up the computer and catching up on this site, whilet usually blasting some music, THEN eating breakfast, and getting ready for school. It starts at 8AM and in reality my commute really only takes about 15 minutes tops but I try to allow myself about 45 minutes just to be safe. Not because of traffic, but because my commute consists of walking almost a mile each way, sometimes in beautiful weather, other times in pouring rain, trudging through several feet of snow, or in freezing temperatures. Also in my commute is driving an outboard skiff or paddling a kayak across a bay, it's faster than walking. It can get interesting in 20 plus knot winds though! People marvel at my commute, saying they sit in traffic for 45 minutes each way. But after this year my commute may switch to driving an hour each way, thankfully in fairly light traffic most of the way, down rural 2 lane highway and, once into the city, in the slow right hand truck lane on the freeway at all of about 45 MPH in a 1971 Deuce and a half. Seasonally in subzero temps in winter, and maybe even triple digit temps in summer, in a truck with minimal heat and no air conditioning. I can't decide which one could be considered more fun, or miserable, depending on what you consider adventurous.
Now, in the winter, my commute happens in more or less darkness. Thankfully for part of last year I was lucky enough to do one of my (online) classes at home so my morning commute didn't have to happen in the dark! This also allowed me to sleep in as well. Later, when I finished another class a month early, I wasn't even leaving the house until 9:15 AM! That was nice.
Also, my dad is gone much of the time (our lifestyles and jobs and schedules simply do not match up) and when he's gone my routine changes as well, particularly in the morning! My next door neighbor says he can tell if my dad is gone since he doesn't hear my generator fire up at 5AM and see lights on that early on winter mornings. I often play music first thing in the morning, do you? My clock radio gets a lot of use, though most of the time I'm waking up to NPR since it's all I can get on FM at my house. The thing I hate waking up to most of all though is the sound of the telephone ringing! I usually put the cordless phone by my bed but if the 12 volt battery bank that runs my house gets below 11.1v during the night the inverter shuts itself off, therefore causing a power outage and rendering the cordless phone and answering machine useless so the other phone downstairs keeps ringing insistently, forcing me to run down the stairs at 6AM in the dark! My dad likes to call me really early. Another immediate thing in the morning in winter is stuffing more wood in the wood stove before it goes out.
Now, during the summer, I wake up to other crewmembers and the smell of eggs cooking (whenot alone I never cook egg containinget breakfasts). I'd rather wake up on my own if it has to be early! But it's worth it for $150/day wage though.