Now I'm a fuchsia, it's meaning isn't particularly relevant to anything, I just experienced a qualitative emotional shift yesterday and felt like changing my avi, and they're among my favorite flowers (fuchsias mean confiding love, btw).
Alas jesus, while intellectually I know that consistent applied effort is the only way things will work out, I am not a robot. I haven't the willpower to sustain my efforts since trying at all is a major psychological effort for me, and it ends up collapsing and throwing me back into a state where all I want to do is escapist things. As for the "wait just a little longer strategy" that's always been what I've ended up deciding to do so far, but the periods of time between my being forced to make a choice are getting smaller and smaller as the cycles repeat.
Anyhow, downside of waking up at a reasonable time: I can't lay in bed for longer than necessary drifting in and out of dreams that I remember as I wake up from them (but then usually forget as I fall back asleep). On the plus side, I actually get to do things in daylight. I think I'm gonna go on another 2+ hour walk now, when I don't have suitable things to be not sober, just getting out is the best I can do. This ends up causing a lot of back pain though.