Nicely overcast, avoiding the searing heat. Down to the ambient heat, which is at least not as intrusive.
Moldy dust everywhere, including throat and eyes. Disturbing sleep. I used to think it was just the temperature, but on our third summer with good, humidity controlled, central air, I'm not so sure. Both of us have had very disrupted sleep over the past month or so. We don't keep it down at 60˚F and heavy blankets at night, certainly. Put it at 76˚F, with a cotton throw - which is perfectly comfortable without the fan coming on too often, we should be fine. So, I wonder if there is another, or several other factors. Light until late evening. And I still have to get up in the dark. (Oh, our modern industrial world.) The cat still sheds a lot of the winter undercoat, despite not being out in the heat for more than an hour a day. We've confused our inbred rhythms, but not eliminated them.
Got in the majority of my hours this week. Could have gotten more, but by Friday afternoon, I was not up to a bit of tedious paperwork. I'd have just messed up the vacation schedule - which no one wants. No better way to piss people off than to screw up their vacations. A short week with a holiday, but it felt just as long as one with overtime.
Summer is not for sleeping.
Just came across this Rorschmap, a mirror image of your city. This one is SLC. I think them rather appealing.
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I've been aiming to get back to our natural rhythms over the past year or two.
Not using an alarm clock to start with- I wake earlier!! (instead of waking every so often, and feeling groggy when the alarm does go!)
Street lights are a nuisance too!!
We need real dark as well as real light.
That Rorschmap thing is totally compelling.
gz,
Yes, days off I usually keep the alarm off, and wake up an hour or so later. The alarm is a chime, which helps. But the amount of artificial light is pretty constant through the year in this apartment.
Lucy,
Indeed. Even Detroit is rather pretty through it.
Ei jei jei, am I ever looking forward to my vacation (first one in two decades) at the end of this month. I cannot tell you!
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