Daily writing prompt

What time do you go to bed and wake up currently?

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My schedule is on desert time. The summer heat is stored in the western masonry walls, the stucco merely a cover story. The mechanical evaporative cooling of the air always falls behind as the evening arrives. The physics of heat transference remain sovereign beyond the sunset. It won’t be cool again until just before the sun rises. It will be cooler as the night goes on. 81F (27.2 C) at 1 am will turn to 75F (23.8C) by 5AM. But, they say, it’s a dry heat and while I agree that it’s better than the high humidity, an oven is also dry heat. My sleep is determined by the temperature patterns of the summer days. The hotter the day, the later it is until I sleep. But the cool mornings cannot cajole me out of bed. Because the cool air lasts only a short time, surely not long enough to make it worth my while to rise earlier than necessary.