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I woke up at 6:45 today. A new record. My rhythm is more circadian than ever. I feel like the early hominid must have: up at dawn with the mysterious and life-giving sun trickling into the cave as I fumble about for the leash of my partially domesticated wolf and pour a cup of whatever proto-coffee they surely had. Or I feel like a fitness guru, like one of the beautiful half-naked olympians you sometimes see finishing a sunrise 10K on your way to work; that\u2019s just like me, doing fifteen minutes of gentle yoga guided by an app on my phone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Truthfully, I am struggling to adapt. I\u2019ve been a bartender on and off for the last few years which lends to a truly disastrous sleep cycle. This summer I worked until 2am most days. It\u2019s hard on the body but you can sleep until you wake up, knowing work doesn\u2019t start until sundown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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My watch has been tracking my sleep cycle and gives a little beep every morning to quantifiably show, with beautiful charts, that I\u2019m exhausted. <\/span>You slept on your stomach again, <\/span><\/i>it says, <\/span>your heart rate was too low, and then too high, and this line here says you should feel terrible<\/span><\/i>. It can not be turned off. <\/span>Have you been smoking again?<\/span><\/i> Your blood oxygen was dismal last night. <\/span><\/i>I find its data very enlightening, which I have to because I paid a lot of money for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Apple has a \u201cbedtime\u201d feature which feels patronizing. But hell, why not. I\u2019m gamifying the rest of my sleep cycle anyway. Eve has trouble waking up so she bought an alarm app that won\u2019t shut off until she solves various puzzles and math problems. It chirps loudly at random intervals while she cries <\/span>What\u2019s 12×13? Please help me, <\/span><\/i>and I tearfully take out my own phone and its calculator app and yell the answers with my head under a pillow. It\u2019s an enriching way to start the day and makes us feel more like a team, couple-wise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Each studio has one couch, so maybe we\u2019ll put together a scheduling app so students can claim a nap time. I don\u2019t want to be the first one found asleep when studio starts, but someone has to and it might as well be me.<\/span><\/p>

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I\u2019m thinking about all the tools I use to stop and start my day, and how they\u2019re all super annoying. Probably on purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":4476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[414,417,415,416],"class_list":["post-4474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-incidentals","tag-apps","tag-bad-habits","tag-sleep","tag-ux","entry-card--square"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/YES-AND-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86O3z-1aa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}