3am-noon: Those are the hours I’ve been working for the past few days and will be working through the month of February. These are a few of the mental notes I’ve taken during the transition to the new shift:
- My sleep schedule hasn’t just changed; it’s been eliminated altogether. I have no circadian rhythm to speak of at this point. I’ve slept at almost all hours of the day within the past week. There’s no specific time I make sure I am in bed by. I don’t track the amount of hours I sleep in a day. Put simply, when I’m tired, I sleep…
- Ditto for my eating schedule. The sun no longer dictates the traditional meals of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack. In the last week I’ve woken up at 9pm and eaten cereal, I’ve eaten chicken and broccoli at 7am during my “lunch break” at work, and I’ve eaten pre-sleep midnight snack type food around 1pm following a long day at work. My eating schedule, like my sleeping schedule, has become elementary. When I’m hungry, I eat… and I eat whatever I feel like at the time.
- Keeping track of the days is slightly more difficult when you’re not waking up at the beginning of a day and sleeping at the end of it. It is unusual to think that on multiple occasions I have woken up to Conan O’Brien and The Late Show with David Letterman, and then gone to sleep after the following day’s daytime programming is well underway. The start of my day is not the start of the day… That’s what throws me off from time to time.
Graveyard
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Abed is to Troy as Aric is to Tyler
The pictures speak for themselves, but I will add that this was the greatest game of football I’ve ever witnessed.
Bring on the Giants… Remember the last time we saw them in the playoffs?
This is my favorite PSA campaign.
Sophisticated problem. Simple solution: education & empathy.
5 Plays
Never Never - SBTRKT
I heard of SBTRKT and picked up their album fairly recently. Since then, it’s been a personal favorite. Listening to their music is like getting an audible massage. The production is gentle and flowing. The vocals are soulful. If I had to compare their music to other artists, I’d say it’s like an upbeat fusion of Aloe Blacc and James Blake. Can’t really go wrong there can you?
I have yet to visit Central Park, Wall Street, The Twin Towers Memorial, and a laundry list of other places in New York City… But the one thing I regret not doing these past two days in NYC is stopping for 5 minutes to listen to this violinist. I was in a rush because I didn’t want to miss my train back to Connecticut. But if I had the opportunity to remake one decision from my two-day trip, it would be to stop in that subway tunnel and soak this in…
The sound was so theatrical and rich with sorrow. When I heard it, the first emotionally corresponding scene to pop into my head was the final scene from Man on Fire. It was absolutely breathtaking… I suppose it’s another one of those things that exemplifies and contributes to the majesty of New York City.
This is a nifty little holiday light show I saw projected on the Saks Fifth Avenue building, which is right across the street from Rockefeller Center in NYC.
Music And Life by Alan Watts
This is well worth 142 seconds of your life.
”It’s good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.“ - Ursula K LeGuin
