She found it strange. To want to sleep by the ocean. She'd be unconscious for most of it. So why did it matter where she slept. Maybe there was an argument for how nice it felt leading up to finally drifting off.

Getting into her pajamas. Slipping into bed. Turning the...

On the road  Imogen Howe only thought about necessities.  gas and  food the only things that would keep her going. It had been about ten hours she thought. Already going through her phones battery, for some reason she noticed it getting darker. It woke her up.  sleep the next thing...

One day Aaron's dad decided that three more hours than everyone wasn't enough. so he began waking up at 3am. And then finally 2am.

His friends would ask whether that was okay. They worried for him. Aaron's dad would brush it all off saying that he was working out more and...

When he awoke Jackie was gone. She left for work at a reasonable hour. It was Joey's sleep schedule that was fucked due to working night shifts at the cafe. In the beginning the night shifts were shared between him and Tony. But after a few weeks, somehow, Tony convinced...

It was 9AM.

Big Joe had stayed in. Like he always did the night before a job.

He had drunk two shots of whiskey. Like he always did the night before a job.

It helped him fall asleep. Knew it didn't help him actually  sleep . But shit sleep wasn't his big concern,...

That evening I checked into the motel late. The man, who I only could assume to be the owner, looked upset. Downtrodden. Didn't know if it was because he just hated being there or if he was genuinely having a bad day.

I say he had to be the owner because...

To do great work one must get going before it's late.

Great work requires time in flow . Frequently beginners struggle to get into flow. So much that they will take the flow whenever it comes, even if it arrives too late.

When is too late for flow? Too close to...

As I have written, it was past midnight when I returned home from the concert in Vienna . I quickly ate something, hopped into the shower and was in bed by around 2 am if I remember correctly.

Since I had a day off today, I turned off my alarm and...

As I wrote yesterday, not everything is terrible currently. Today I managed only to hit snooze for one hour instead of two. And that is just because I was writing about it yesterday.

The plan for today (after work) was to implement the sleep ,  steps and  work hours into my...

The daily writing sheriffs ( therealbrandonwilson and  abrahamKim ) demanded a writing update, and I'll have to admit I neglected writing in the last half year, to be honest. Anyway, today is the day to write...

Tomorrow will be the last day at the company I work for currently. I will show up on Monday to collect my personal stuff as I will be on paid vacation for the last three days of August.

On the 31st of August, I will be driving to the new employer...

When I was a  sophomore I roomed with a guy who slept only four, five hours a night. If I were to hear of such a guy nowadays, I would think that that's unhealthy and unsustainable. But back in  college , not sleeping was seen as cool. Not because not...

On Saturday, I started a 12-hour paramedic shift. As I walked into the standby room, I encountered an emergency doctor I hadn't seen in a while. Right after breakfast, we were called to our first trip, so I couldn't talk much to him, but later on, we got to play...

Victoria slept just four or five hours a night. She knew this was unsustainable but it was the only way she could both provide for herself and Cameron while also taking classes. One day she would be able to make 70 or 80 thousand dollars a year and she wouldn't...

Often I'll be working on some problem, trying to learn something, and the day will come to its end. Sometimes I may consider staying up later and later to see if I can maybe reach a breakthrough. I've learned that it's not just about time spent on something. The raw...

The  deadline for the paper was  Friday two weeks ago.

This was the longest time I had gone past a deadline... initially I didn't even know it was possible. I remember Thursday night.... sitting in the library so late. Just when it was neither night or early morning. That's when they...

When he found out he had to stay on campus for  winter break he imagined he'd be alone in a ghost town. He was a little bit disappointed when he found there were in fact people walking around, driving around, and that most of the businesses were open. Sure there...

After leaving her job, she didn't view time the same. Instead of using the 24 hours she began segmenting each day into six markers. There was no concept of seven o clock anymore.

This was her system:
The rooster crowing in the morning -- 1. The coffee -- 2. The first meal...

I was in bed, awake, but still laying, just like the rest of the house.

The lighting was the kind that pissed me off. Neither bright and pretty like a beautiful summer day nor glum and melancholic. Instead a subdued light like an old polaroid , but no nostalgia featured. The...

After the  accident (https://adagia.org/content/4005) my paramedic night shift continued to be hellish and without much sleep. A few minutes after we finished cleaning the car I moved into one of the sleeping rooms and sent out a few  email s (https://adagia.org/content/3999) and wrote the linked article.

It wasn't long until we...