I wake at 7, make some coffee and have 30 mins to think. I then ring my mom for 10 mins, workout for 30 and shower before work. I’ve been getting outside for 15 mins to get some sunlight in my eyes and that has been a welcome addition.
Get buzzed by my garmin band at 7, snooze to 7:20, eat what I can find in the kitchen, boot my computer and run a script that downloads a few thousand articles and picks out 300 for me to look at, get dropped off at the bus stop, ride the bus to work.<p>I’ve had times when I got up at 5 in the summer and walked 6 miles before starting work, but lately I have been staying up late teaching myself huggingface transformers.
Circumstances: I have long COVID and can't exercise much without a PEMS crash; I also need whatever extra sleep I can get. I used to always get up well before work and go for a long walk in my neighborhood, sometimes up to 4 miles.<p>After a bad night's sleep where my 7 kids keep me awake until about somewhere between 1:30 and 2:15am, having spent the last part of my night's sleep with a pillow over my head which keeps out some of the light but makes my tinnitus more noticeable, and having been overheated all night since our ceiling fan blew out in recent power surge/outage along with most of our other appliances, wake up about 9:15, 15 minutes before alarm at 9:30. (I recently stupidly set the alarm to birdsong, which means I wound up training my brain to wake me up prematurely at 6:15 which is when the birds in my backyard starting making noise.)<p>Sync my low-end fitness tracker with the app on my phone and see what it shows me about my night's sleep. Look sadly at the "5 hr 51 min" and sleep score of 70 (that's today, it's usually better than that, but I rarely break 80), and resolve yet again to try getting everyone to bed earlier. (Toddlers generally can't be reasoned with about this).<p>Bathe for 10-25 minutes depending on necessity and whether I need to wash my hair; during the winter I skip this on some days. Half-fill my big steel mug with brewed coffee from our extremely basic coffee maker and top it off with water. Sit at the kitchen table and drink the whole mug, taking seven enzyme pills (serrapeptase and nattokinase), which seems to help with my COVID fingers and toes - pain, numbness, burning. Get to my desk at 9:55 and boot up my work computer which probably underwent a forced reboot against my will during the night to apply Windows updates.<p>I work fully-remote, and my laptop is managed by my employer's I.T. dept. Most of my team is in Mountain or Pacific time, so my 10am is their 7 or 8am. At 10am Eastern time we have our morning standup meeting. We're supposed to turn on our cameras so I wind up distracted by my appearance in part because I have a fair amount of body dysmorphia. Feel somewhat comforted by the fact that the people who got up at 7am their time are also not overjoyed to be on camera. Get through the first meeting and breathe a sigh of relief when the mercifully short meeting is over.