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nobody@vox.com(Mike) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:55:55 -0800

This is where I blog about the exciting travails of my job at Six Apart. Most of the entries here will be restricted to employees, so if you don't see much content it's either none of your business or I haven't done much blogging.

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Sleep deprivation is nature's ambien

nobody@vox.com(Mike) — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:48:37 -0800

I let my cycle drift. This is easy to do, since I suffer from (self-diagnosed, hey it's the Internet!) Non 24-hour Sleep-Wake Syndrome. That's that nasty condition where you end up staying up progressively later every night you get the chance. Really wreaks havoc on a workweek, lemme tell you. As of right now, I'm 8 hours late. I should be waking up at 5 PM and instead I'm waking up at 1 AM.

I'm doing a reset. Two nights in a row I'm staying up 24 hours instead of my usual 16, so I can quickly bump my schedule two 8-hour notches ahead and end up where it's supposed to be: asleep at 9 AM and awake at 5 PM. This morning I woke up at 1 AM so I'm staying up until... 1 AM. I should then crash out and sleep until about 9 AM, at which point I'll stay up another 24 hours until... 9 AM. When I go to sleep, I'll be nice and rested and it'll be a lovely 5 PM, just in time to get my day started and eventually roll into work at midnight in time to keep the bloggers bloggin' for 8 hours.

Sleep deprivation is nature's ambien. Drugs have always done a poor job of getting me to sleep reliably, but nothing works quite like forcing yourself to go without sleep for an extra couple hours. I never have trouble crashing out if I've been up for 24 hours and my eyelids are sagging down to my chest. Needless to say, it's the staying up that's the trip. I have some cheap solutions to keep me awake, like Sudafed, but it makes me feel so unbelievably janky I refuse to do it. All I've got is caffeine. Lots of it. I'm sure my heart will thank me.

Four more hours

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Man can dream...

nobody@vox.com(Mike) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:19:19 -0800

Courtesy of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington...

Lanes

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I think I just picked scar tissue out of my ear canal...

nobody@vox.com(Mike) — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:46:32 -0800

I wear earplugs when I go to sleep thanks to my upstairs neighbors' love of daytime reality television and their several loud yappy dogs. Also the fact that between 9 AM and 5 PM, most people are naturally awake and making noise. I've been using these cheapo ones from Walgreens which do a good job of keeping out the noise but just fucking HURT. I guess they really do hurt; I was cleaning out my ear and pulled out a nice little scab encrusted with earwax. I dabbed at my ear with a piece of tissue paper and pulled up some tiny red spots. Gross. So I'm cutting and scarring up my ears every time I go to sleep. Yet another nasty side effect of working the graveyard. If anyone has recommendations for some better earplugs that don't tear up your ear, please let me know. I'd like to replace these crappy ones post-haste and do my poor ears a favor.

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