Diane Rehm is my "wake up early" motivator

I hate waking up late.
Ok, that's only sort of true. I love waking up at a reasonable hour, rolling over, and going back to sleep. That feeling is something along the lines of "pure joy".But I hate starting my day late, of feeling like I lost hours and wasted time.

More than anything, I despise waking late on weekdays for one specific reason: Diane Rehm.
NPR, and especially WFAE, is something of an addiction. One of the greatest feelings of elation while living abroad was the realization that I could get the live stream of WFAE... in my room in Lima.

But when I wake up late, I miss Morning Edition. I miss Charlotte Talks. No Steve Inskeep. No Renée Montagne. Instead, my ears are assailed by Diane Rehm. Which, for the record, is a rather undesireable way to wake up. As my boyfriend says, its something like awaking in a hospital... or a nursing home.

Okay, okay. She's a good interviewer, fine, I'm not disagreeing. But that's akin to telling me that olives or pickles are good for me, therefore I should like them (don't you dare approach me with a pickle). Or that Johnny Depp is an excellent actor. I don't care how good he is, he scares me.

Diane Rehm is good. Great, even. Yet the mornings I sleep through the soothing voices of intelligent morning news, that's it. I try -I try hard- to listen to her. And then, after 5 minutes, I inevitably change the station.

Which means that, not only does waking up to Ms. Rehm devestate my morning, it leaves me in an uncomfortable, news-less state for the rest of the day.

That's all the motivation I need to wake up early.